Bolton Wanderers vs Manchester City: Cahill vs Aguero and Five Key Match-Ups

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(Bleacher Report)Bolton Wanderers play host to Manchester City in less than 24 hours and with it comes a lot of speculation. Both clubs completed 4-0 beatings of freshly promoted teams last weekend.

Along with that both teams started the year off at the top of the table for the first time in years.

Transfer speculation with Arsenal is also swirling around both teams as Manchester City are in the final stages of signing Samir Nasri, while the Gunners are still hopeful of bringing Gary Cahill to the Emirates before the next ten days have pasted them by.

However, there is a match to be played today and the bragging rights at the top of the table are at stake as which ever side wins will remain on top of the pile for at least 24 hours before Manchester United plays Tottenham on Monday.

With that said, there are some key one on one match-ups that are likely to be seen throughout the game and could play heavy parts in the outcome.

That said, with no further delay here are five pairings that could see some great action and importance this coming afternoon......CLICK HERE TO START THE SLIDESHOW.

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Manchester City: Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko and Citizens Starting XI vs Bolton

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(Bleacher Report)Manchester City started off their new campaign with a bang on multiple levels.

Their team gave a clinic in the last 33 minutes as they scored four goals to rout newly promoted Swansea City in front of a packed house.

It was also nice to start the first Campaign of the Etihad Stadium with a victory, and Roberto Mancini will be happy to have earned such.

This weekend they face another team that dished out a 4-0 beating to a newly promoted side after Bolton Wanderers pummeled Queens Park Rangers into submission at Loftus Road.

Bolton are scrappy at times but have more quality than they are usually credited with.

However, Manchester City expect to take nothing less than three points back home with them, and Sergio Aguero will look to continue his excellent debut season with what should be his first full 90 minutes appearance......CLICK TO START THE SLIDESHOW.

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FA Community Shield Analysis: Seven Players That Impressed

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(Bleacher Report)The FA Community Shield provided just the kind of match that the English Premier League needed to build this coming weekends opening fixtures.

Manchester City stormed out of the gates to take a 2-0 advantage into the break, and nearly ruined my Manchester United victory prediction from last Thursday. However, the Red Devils gave their noisy neighbors a lesson in the game.

That lesson, there are two halves to any football match. You may have won the first half but we destroyed you in the second. Goals from Joleon Lescott and a belter from Edin Dzeko were cancelled out by two Nani strikes and a great free kick winning shot from young defender Chris Smalling.

With the action now three days past, I thought I would take a look back and really talk about who impressed the most in the 3-2 United victory......Click Here to Start the Slideshow.

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The Importance of the Manchester Derby

Article first published as The Importance of the Manchester Derby on Technorati.
The Red and Blue sides of Manchester Square off this Weekend With Manchester City hoping to gain ground on Manchester United.

by Rhydon Atzenhoffer
February 10, 2011

Sir Alex Ferguson's Red Devil's were shocked last weekend in a surprise defeat to bottom table club Wolves. The Manchester club was not the only top four team to get shocked as Arsenal suffered a shocking draw to the hands of Newcastle United after being 0-4 up at halftime at St. James Park. A Red Card to Bacary Sanga saw the Gunners reduced to 10-men and the Magpies took full advantage.

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Chelsea fell to a stalwart of a Liverpool side stifling the debut of former Red Fernando Torres. The only top team to take advantage of the other toppling in shockers was Manchester City. The Citizens cruised to a 3-0 victory over possibly relegation bound West Brom. The Baggies just could stave off the attack.

As the weekend comes into view, the Red Devils face an enemy that has been growing hungrier and hungrier for their success. Carlos Tevez has been on a rampage, David Silva is beginning to adjust to the English Premier League, and new signing Edin Dzeko has looked a fresh face in attack. With most of their dead weight cleared out on loan, the Blue side of Manchester is rising.

Despite their defeat Manchester United still top the table at 54 points from 25 games with a game in hand on the Citizens who sit third with 49 points from 26. Between them stands 50 point Arsenal also on 25 games who face Wolves this weekend, and it is no doubt that they will be on the hunt for a second Premiership scalp in hopes of saving their season from relegation.

If United a victorious it will see them go eight points clear of Man City, and seven points clear of the Gunners in the first games of the weekend setting the tone. However, if Tevez and crew can pull off an upset of the Red Devils at Old Trafford it would make huge waves towards their chance of winning the League with 11 games to go, and only two points to make up.

Tevez Desires Vital Win

Tevez, a former United player, knows all to well that a loss could give the Red Devils all the advantage they need to see out the season and take their 19th Title giving them the most championships of any English Club eclipsing Liverpool whom they are tied with at 18.

"There are still many points left but to give an eight, nine or 10-point advantage to United is to say goodbye to our chances." Tevez said of what a loss could imply if the Citizens were not to emerge victorious.

A Red Devils defeat could signal the beginning of a changing of the guard in Manchester if the Citizens have anything to do with it, and this match will more than likely set the tone for the weekend. If it is to run any chance of being as interesting and as exciting as last weeks match days, we are in for one hell of a ride starting with the Manchester Derby Saturday morning.