City sink Chelsea to win Shield
Manchester City warmed up for their Premier League title defence with a 3-2 win over 10-man Chelsea in the Community Shield at Villa Park on Sunday.
Roberto Mancini’s side are defending champions for the first time in 44 years and they are in no mood to relinquish their crown on the evidence of this vibrant display.
City fell behind in the 40th minute when Fernando Torres struck for the European champions, but they took control of the annual curtain raiser to the top-flight season, which kicks off next weekend, after Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic was sent off for a foul on Aleksandar Kolarov just before half-time.
Yaya Toure equalised for City in the 53rd minute of a fiesty encounter which featured eight bookings.
Carlos Tevez put Mancini’s men ahead with a superb strike six minutes later and Samir Nasri tapped in their third goal in the 65th minute.
An 80th minute strike from Chelsea substitute Ryan Bertrand couldn’t stop City winning the Shield for the first time since 1972.
© AFP 2013
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August 13th 2012 @ 10:44am
pete4 said | August 13th 2012 @ 10:44am | Report comment
Actually expecting Man City and Chelsea to be the top 2 this season…
August 13th 2012 @ 11:00am
Kasey said | August 13th 2012 @ 11:00am | Report comment
Will enjoy watching “the noisy neighbours” shake things up again this season I think. Will be paying extra attention to the Manchester Derby to get a laugh out of some of the taunting that for once won’t all be Red to Blue;)
August 14th 2012 @ 7:33am
Johnno said | August 14th 2012 @ 7:33am | Report comment
-The final day of the olympics were on and the closing ceremony too, i could not believe the nerve of football people in England who had the nerve to play this match on the sunday they should of played it this weekend, and delayed there season by another further week to accommodate the once in a lifetime home olympics. Especially after all the olympics have done and given to football, by helping them and benefiting football immensely. by having football in there games. Football should be kissing the olympics feet for all the money they make football, and what have football given in return, have this meaningless yearly community shield on the last day of the olympics and in London too , what nerve from football.
August 14th 2012 @ 8:14am
Kasey said | August 14th 2012 @ 8:14am | Report comment
You must have missed the memo indicating just how much more football gives to the Olympic Games than it takes eh?
August 14th 2012 @ 8:41am
Brick Tamlin of the Pants Party said | August 14th 2012 @ 8:41am | Report comment
Troll
August 14th 2012 @ 9:14am
jbinnie said | August 14th 2012 @ 9:14am | Report comment
Johnno -You have this all wrong.
From figures published the gents and ladies tournament pulled a recorded 2,116,650 fans to 60 matches held all around GB to get a game average attendance of 35,250. (two bronze medal game crowds are not recorded so are not included in this calculation)
Using the average ticket price of GBP 30 ,this equating to AUS$47,a simple multiplication shows a “football income” of just under AUS$ 100,000,000.
It also has to be remembered that all these matches were played out on existing grounds which one must assume saved the IOC millions,if not billions,of dollars had they had to build another 6 stadiums as has been done to “hold” the other sports.
I think if you consider these FACTS you will start to rethink your opinion. Yours jb
August 15th 2012 @ 5:09am
Marc said | August 15th 2012 @ 5:09am | Report comment
So 38,000 people chose to pay money and attend a game of football with a tradition going back to 1908. The fans of both clubs, and other fans around the world enjoyed the game, and millions of pounds were raised for charity. Why the fake outrage?