George:
Intriguing Premiership clash today between the teams of Bolton and Manchester City.
Wanderers have serious problems this season and Megson at the moment is under pressure.The team is on the 19th position in the table with only 12 points.
Now the team is in a row of 6 games in all competitions, from which only 1 point has been taken.We can say the Megson magic worked in the previous 2 seasons and the team survived in EPL, without showing decent footboall, but the results came sooner or later.But I'm not sure this will happen again this season, as the team is not playing well, but the results this time are in unison with the performance of Trotters.
The defence of the team is far from its best shape, while in attack i can see again some kind of typical for Bolton chaos, without certain concept to attack, mainly using set - pieces and crosses from all possible positions.This strategy sometimes works, but it's not so hard to neutralize it, so I suppese team with abbitions as City must cope with it.
For the match today Davies returns to the squad after suspension.Davis and O'Brien are still injured and remain out of the squad.
City is in much better position than opponent.Team is 6th with 25 points and is still looking at the top 4 spots.The team is doing well - in spite of the recent number of draws City has still only 1 lose in the League this season, which is unique record.
About 10 day ago the situation in City was really tensious - after the team extended the row of draws to 7 in succession the position of Hughes was questioned, as he was not winning enough points from, so to say, 'easy matches'.
But then came the 3:0 win over young Gunners in Carling Cup, followed by the team's top this season - the win over Chelsea 2:1 at Eastlands.I believe these wins will have huge psychological impact on the players.
For the match today Richards is out, but Bellamy and Ireland return to the squad.
Thaditionally City is playing hard against Bolton, but I will turn back on the stats here, having in mind the new look and aims of the sky-blues.I
believe after the recent results the motivation will be huge in Hughes' squad, while the poor Bolton just can't offer much.I bet on Away win.
