Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti will be hoping his side can continue their blazing start to the new Premier League season this weekend when they take on Stoke City at Stamford Bridge.
The champions have scored 12 goals in their first two matches — identical 6-0 scorelines — and the Italian has been hugely satisfied with his side’s start.
“We have started well this season, scoring a lot of goals, playing good football,” Ancelotti said.
But though they will be big favourites to beat Stoke and maintain their record as the only side in the Premier League with a 100 per cent record, Ancelotti knows that sooner or later, it will come to an end.
“It is impossible to think we have to score six goals in a game all the time because this is not real football, this is PlayStation football,” he said.
Manchester United, second to Chelsea last year and again looking the most likely contenders, will be out to bounce back from a disappointing 2-2 draw at Fulham last time out.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s side are at home to West Ham United on Saturday evening and the Scot knows that dropping points, even so early on in the season, could be costly.
“You don’t want to be dropping silly points and we dropped silly points here,” he said. “We can’t escape that. There was an opportunity to go 3-1 ahead (against Fulham) with three minutes left and we didn’t take it.
“It was a missed opportunity.” Ferguson will be hoping that Wayne Rooney is fit to start after missing the Fulham game with a virus but defender Nemanja Vidic said he was sure United will recover.
“It’s happened in previous years when we have dropped points early in the season,” Vidic said. “We drew against Newcastle two years ago and had some other bad results at the start of the season, and have still gone on to win things.
“We don’t want to be too down after this result, but it’s definitely hard to take because we had the result in our hands. It’s a bad result, especially as we were winning in the last minute of the game.”
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