Premier League l Between Chelsea and City won the boredom

That Rafa Benitez could expect something very different from a return to Liverpool was pretty obvious. That Stamford Bridge to devote an entire first half to the support of the former coach Roberto Di Matteo a little less. Banners, personal messages on A4 paper, but above all choirs in support of the technical - the most sensational per minute 16 'with the entire stadium standing ovation - that six months ago led Chelsea to the top of Europe. It 's basically this is the most interesting event of a game that at the level of football, under the watchful eyes of Roman Abramovich, has given very little. On the one hand, Chelsea primarily designed to defend and then leave, again showing embarrassing gaps in the offensive zone, with Torres unable to sting and Hazard after booting from a summer storm seems to have turned into a light rain fall, while the other side there was a City still far from his best form, with a possession that points to the reward but with a paucity in terms of chances created which eventually returns to Manchester with a poor - but fair - punticino.There he finds himself the cousins ​​of the United back on top of the Premier (+1). Chelsea however, with the third point in 5 games, doing so exceed the third place from the amazing WBA Steve Clarke.

THE GAME - yet the City, at least at the start, try to take immediately in hand over control efforts at the usual possession undermining one of a Chelsea boot rather shy. Of great scoring chances but there is no trace and along with Zabaleta - but Kolarov - particularly inspired by the strong emotions do not come.

ATTACKS STERILE - Chelsea tries first of all to not take them but when finally, in the middle of the first half, he also manages to raise the center of gravity - with an Oscar still on the shields - the race of blocks further. Attack of the Blues in fact, despite the usual movements of the Brazilian, with a lone striker Torres reference is as usual sterile and Chelsea worries not hardly ever sleepy Joe Hart, on the other hand, however, the men of Mancini, with Dzeko from 'beginning, they are the same, and when the 36' Aguero ends with a weak header from the edge of the small air their good side of the Bosnian, you realize that the first time will only end in one way: 0-0 .

DROWSINESS - And the recovery, per se, does not give any better. If in the first quarter of an hour both teams give the feeling of wanting to try more, and Chelsea in particular willing to expose themselves continuously, the real work for Hart and Cech not there is not even a shadow and only the flood strikes will force London warehouse washing of uniforms. Torres tries with a conclusion of the first 61 'but his shot flies high into the fray Mancini Tevez in place of Dzeko but rather throws the flag for Citezens not get anything.

THE POINT - What should have been the match of the week closes it with a dull zero to zero, which, in the end, everyone unhappy. On one hand, the City loses the top of the Premier in favor of Manchester United despite the usual problems in the last few weeks seems much more convincing than all'undici team of technical Jesi, while the other Rafa Benitez comes out in the most total discontent of the public to Stamford Bridge. Of course, in order to evaluate the hand of Spanish manager will serve far more than four days of training, but the "Rafa OUT" that much of the public faith Blues sported the cameras whenever their chattering a corner tells how a victory Today, more than ever, would have served to Benitez to start on the right foot. Instead came a par with the overtaking Ranked an assistant (Clarke) of a former manager (Mourinho) which at Stamford Bridge still keep the coat ... A ghost that Spanish just can not get out of the back.