Friday, November 1, 2013

Nastatic mistake hands Chelsea the win against Manchester City 2-1

Contrasting emotion: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho whoop it up after Torres goal
as a stunned Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini looked on. 
Matija Nastatic committed a monumental blunder in the closing of minutes of the game enabling Chelsea to steal the win from Manchester City 2-1 in the latest round of English Premiere League. 

Chelsea substitute Willian just lobbed the ball ahead to Fernando Torres. It looks like Nastatic has beaten Torres for the ball, but in a twist of fate Manchester City goal keeper Joe Hart rushed in to get the ball.  Nastatic, unaware of what Joe Hart was doing heads the ball supposedly for safety only for it to slip pass Hart who is already so close to Nastatic.  

That blunder enabled Torres to pursue the ball and poked it into the net as Martin Demichelis could not do anything to stop Torres. 

Earlier, both teams are fighting tooth and nail to either score for the game or maintain the draw.  In the early goings, Torres was poised to give Chelsea the goal on two occasions.  In the 28th minute, Ramires feed a cross to Torres who missed the ball by few inches. A minute later, Ramires again gave another cross to Torres, who this time, had an open shot but still miserably missed as his shot went high up the goal.  

Torres however redeemed himself in the 37th minute when his cross to Andre Schurrle was completed as Martin Demichelis sliding save missed and allowed Schurrle to tap into the net.  

Manchester City however answered in the early part of the second half.  In the 49th minute, Samir Nasri made a perfect pass to Kun Aguero who slipped past between Chelsea defenders Gary Cahill and John Terry and scooped the ball which was too high for Peter Czech to block. 

It was even from then on and was headed for a draw until the Nastatic blunder in the 90th minute.