The City defeat to Chelsea and kept alive

England's Frank Lampard had the option of advancing to the Blues early in the second half with a penalty that stopped the goalkeeper Joe Hart , one of the heroes of the evening for "citizens", which are maintained with this victory to twelve points difference from leaders Manchester United. While coach Roberto Mancini entrusted his point of attack to the inspiration of ArgentineSergio 'Kun' Agüero, Rafa Benitez opted to leave the Spanish Fernando Torres on the bench in order to start and Senegalese Demba Ba to use his physical power to frighten City on the break. The exdelantero of Newcastle, who came to London in the winter transfer window window, is expected to play the role vacated last season the Ivorian Didier Drogba , who left the club owned by Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich after leading the team to raise the first Champions League in its history. Despite the proven ability in the final meters ofDemba Ba , fourth Premier top scorer with 14 goals this afternoon and the Belgian Eden Hazard or Spanish Juan Mata managed to put balls to try his luck with the Senegalese Hart . As the minutes progressed, Chelsea watched the City invaded her growing field more easily and had difficulty leaving the choking subjected him to the Mancini on their own ground. The 'citizens' dominated the game and betting on keeping possession of the ball to a 'blues' seeking to exploit their speed on the counterattack, but the locals were unable during the first part of moving its apparent superiority on the pitch to score. Within five minutes of the second half, led the best chance for their own Demba Ba , wearing a face mask to protect his nose broken a few weeks ago after a clash with Newcastle's Argentine defender Fabricio Coloccini. The Senegalese controlled the ball inside the area and fell down by Hart , as interpreted by the referee, who did not hesitate to give the ball to English Frank Lampard to that planted in the spot and put to test the English goalkeeper. The goalkeeper of the England team knows well Lampard and did not hesitate to stretch to his right to stop the shot dry, stuck to the bottom, which had launched the Chelsea midfielder, who had just missed the clear choice for those of Benitez in the party. The 'blues' pardoned from the penalty spot, and just seven minutes later, they were the 'citizens' who gave the first blow of authority in the match thanks to the inspiration of the Ivorian Yaya Toure. In minute 63, the Spanish David Silva hit the bottom line, it spun around and saw unmarked Toure , who received the canarypox backward pass and mocked up three defenders inside the area before launching a shot Satin, on the left of goalkeeper Petr Cech to score the first goal. Benitez took the 'Niño' Torres to ten minutes to go to try to turn the duel in extremis, but the Blues continued uninspired and 'citizens', however, benefited from Tevez to give the lace to the visitors on the stroke of 90 minutes. With the match almost ended, Tevez received the ball near the area Cech and fired a shot that left left without resources and Czech goalkeeper guessed the final 2-0 to the City.