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15th-December-2007, 01:36 AM
Manchester City L-D-W-D-W
Bolton W-L-W-D-D
Description:
Former Manchester City France Striker Nicolas Anelka will return to face his old club looking to improve his 8 league goals record. Bolton are slowly gaining back their last season's form after their manager Sam Allardyce left for Newcastle.
Manchester City news
Manchester will be looking to recover from their disappointing two away games where they drew 1 - 1 to Wigan and lost 2 - 1 to Tottenham. Midfielder Elano is back in training and will likely to feature in this match, Manchester City clearly missed the creativeness and composure of this Brazilian during his 2 games absence.
Manchester City are the Number 1. home team in the Premiership with a 100% record out of 8 matches and will be determined to keep this record going. Looking at Bolton's poor away form with only 2 points out of 7 matches; scoring 4 conceding 14, the pressure will be on Manchester City to get a big win out of this one.
Bolton news
Bolton came back from their 4 - 0 defeat at Liverpool by winning 4 - 1 at home to Wigan in their last match. The team had put up a series of improving performance since their disappointing start to the season, which includes a 1 - 0 win to Manchester United.
Combative skipper Kevin Nolan will be urging his team-mates to give halt to their poor away form by getting a good result against Manchester City. For the past 3 years, Manchester City lost to Bolton at home in the Premiership fixture, with Bolton winning them 2 - 0 last year.
Conclusion
Looking at all those factors, it looks like Manchester City are sure to collect all the points. City players may get complacent and with abit of luck Bolton might get something out of this game.
Bolton +0.5
Bolton W-L-W-D-D
Description:
Former Manchester City France Striker Nicolas Anelka will return to face his old club looking to improve his 8 league goals record. Bolton are slowly gaining back their last season's form after their manager Sam Allardyce left for Newcastle.
Manchester City news
Manchester will be looking to recover from their disappointing two away games where they drew 1 - 1 to Wigan and lost 2 - 1 to Tottenham. Midfielder Elano is back in training and will likely to feature in this match, Manchester City clearly missed the creativeness and composure of this Brazilian during his 2 games absence.
Manchester City are the Number 1. home team in the Premiership with a 100% record out of 8 matches and will be determined to keep this record going. Looking at Bolton's poor away form with only 2 points out of 7 matches; scoring 4 conceding 14, the pressure will be on Manchester City to get a big win out of this one.
Bolton news
Bolton came back from their 4 - 0 defeat at Liverpool by winning 4 - 1 at home to Wigan in their last match. The team had put up a series of improving performance since their disappointing start to the season, which includes a 1 - 0 win to Manchester United.
Combative skipper Kevin Nolan will be urging his team-mates to give halt to their poor away form by getting a good result against Manchester City. For the past 3 years, Manchester City lost to Bolton at home in the Premiership fixture, with Bolton winning them 2 - 0 last year.
Conclusion
Looking at all those factors, it looks like Manchester City are sure to collect all the points. City players may get complacent and with abit of luck Bolton might get something out of this game.
Bolton +0.5