City do the Double

 

                              Manchester CITY  2 - 0  WEST HAM UNITED 

Nasri 28, Kompany 48

Vincent Kompany lifts the title for City to see them crowned Champions: PIC: Telegraph.com

Manchester City was crowned 'Kings of England' as they secured their second Premier League title in three seasons on the final day of the 2013-14 premier league season, as they beat West Ham United 2-0 to finish two points clear of Liverpool at the top of the table and made sure that this time it wouldn`t be a last gasp thing like that famous day back in 2012 with two late goals.

City found themselves in an almost identical position to the one they were in two years ago when they were challenging for the title with their neighbour`s from over the City. That day saw the Blues needing to win to lift the title for the first ever premier league title, it needed that day a heart-stopping goal in the 93rd minute by Sergio Aguero to steal the title for the Blues, but this time round the success for the home side was a much more relaxed and professional job to regain the title.

The home side knew that barring a loss and Liverpool beating Newcastle, the title would stay in Manchester and see City crowned as champions yet again.

  From the first whistle it was fairly clear that Man City was the only side capable of winning this game with West Ham players all but on the beach already, as they didn`t have much to play for, but they did try to make a game of it as they had set out to come and park the infamous bus.

  The opening chance of the game fell to David Silva as City was made to work for their chances and so when Samir Nasri and Pablo Zabaleta passed between themselves on the edge of the area, it saw Nasri play a little ball behind the defence for Zabaleta to run on to and his cross towards the back post was volleyed over by Silva and saw City sending early warnings to West Ham that they were in for a long game.

The hero for the Blues two years ago in Sergio Aguero, saw the Argentine take a shot from outside the area, but saw the small striker slip after shooting and so his shot was dealt easily by Adnan in the Hammers goal.

Samir Nasri gives Cit y lead  PIC: Football.com

  Yaya Toure then had an effort curl away from goal as City was shooting from range once again and had West Ham a bit worried as they struggled to close them down. Aleksander Kolarov then demonstrated his powerful left foot with a rocket that was tipped over by the keeper to see it go out for a corner kick and City felt it was only a matter of time before they scored.

News was filtering through that Liverpool was losing at home to Newcastle and lifted the stadium even more so and seen the home side get a kind of second wind to their play as they played with a burst of energy from it all.

  Edin Dzeko put one high and wide off target as he snatched at his shot after brilliant play by Aguero saw the striker keep the ball in play.

  Kevin Nolan was then given a yellow card for a high foot on Joe Hart as the Hammers midfielder was a bit frustrated by the way the game was going for him and his side.

After all the play and chances the home side was making, finally the deadlock was broken as saw a Samir Nasri 20 yard drive getting the better of Adnan in the West Ham goals, as the keeper got a little hand on it and couldn`t stop it from going in the far corner to give the champions-elect a 1-0 lead after thirty eight minutes of play.

  Argentine defender Pablo Zabaleta nearly made it two on the stroke of half time, when his little flick at the near post from counter attack saw his shot blocked for a corner and had the visitors in trouble. The resulting corner kick saw Nasri take a short corner to Yaya Toure and his pass to David Silva saw the Spaniard deflected shot strike the crossbar on the eve of the half time whistle.

Kompany celebrates: PIC: telegraph.co.uk

Second Half started fantastically for the home side, when in the forty-eight minute, a Samir Nasri corner was brought down by Edin Dzeko and Vincent Kompany was first to it and saw the Belgian Captain smash home the second goal of the game and all but seal the title for the Citizens.

   City had a few close chances with Aguero and Silva, but the Hammers defence was doing their best to avoid another drubbing by the Manchester side after losing 4-0 the league and 6-0 in the League Cup semi finals to the Blues this season.

The Home side was controlling play with so much ease that they never allowed the away side to get into the match at any point throughout and saw the Blues never really needing to find second gear either in the game. 
  City played out the rest of the second half with no trouble and the party was started to get into full swing and so when the final whistle came, they had completed a double winning season to see Manuel Pellegrini claim the League championship and when you put together the League cup success back in February when they beat Sunderland at Wembley 3-1. It saw the Chilean enjoy a successful first season at the club.

  Vincent Kompany then was handed the title to lift once more for the Blues and seen City regain the Premier league trophy they lost to their neighbours United last season.
   Pellegrini was given the ‘bumps’ but a few of the major players at the clubs and has shown a dramatic change from 12 months ago, when City lost to Wigan in the FA Cup final and looked to have lost faith in the manager then Roberto Mancini and so roll on a season later and it saw the players have far more respect and be ina happier surrounding with the Chilean in charge.

Game Highlights: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/citytv/Match-highlights/2014/May/City-v-West-Ham-extended-highlights

POS		LP	CLUB	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1		(1)	Manchester City	38	27	5	6	102	37	65	86
2		(2)	Liverpool	38	26	6	6	101	50	51	84
3		(3)	Chelsea	38	25	7	6	71	27	44	82
4		(4)	Arsenal	38	24	7	7	68	41	27	79
5		(5)	Everton	38	21	9	8	61	39	22	72
6		(6)	Tottenham Hotspur	38	21	6	11	55	51	4	69
7		(7)	Manchester United	38	19	7	12	64	43	21	64
8		(8)	Southampton	38	15	11	12	54	46	8	56
9		(10)	Stoke City	38	13	11	14	45	52	-7	50
10		(9)	Newcastle United	38	15	4	19	43	59	-16	49
11		(11)	Crystal Palace	38	13	6	19	33	48	-15	45
12		(13)	Swansea City	38	11	9	18	54	54	0	42
13		(12)	West Ham United	38	11	7	20	40	51	-11	40
14		(14)	Sunderland	38	10	8	20	41	60	-19	38
15		(15)	Aston Villa	38	10	8	20	39	61	-22	38
16		(16)	Hull City	38	10	7	21	38	53	-15	37
17		(17)	West Bromwich Albion	38	7	15	16	43	59	-16	36
18		(18)	Norwich City	38	8	9	21	28	62	-34	33
19		(19)	Fulham	38	9	5	24	40	85	-45	32
20		(20)	Cardiff City	38	7	9	22	32	74	-42	30