{"id":322204,"date":"2011-03-19T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/19\/david-silva-victory-over-chelsea-will-put-manchester-city-back-in-title-race\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T13:55:00","slug":"david-silva-victory-over-chelsea-will-put-manchester-city-back-in-title-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/david-silva-victory-over-chelsea-will-put-manchester-city-back-in-title-race\/","title":{"rendered":"David Silva: Victory over Chelsea will put Manchester City back in title race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Simon Sinclair<\/h3>\n<h4>19 Mar 2011 13:55:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"65.7544288332\">\n<div readability=\"14.3626943005\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Silva, Manchester City (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/874cc3ee116738_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>David Silva, Manchester City (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"30.2910602911\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/manchester-city\">Manchester City<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/10425\/david-jim%C3%A9nez-silva\">David Silva <\/a>believes his team can still win the Premier League title if they beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>City currently lie in third place, seven points behind leaders and local rivals Manchester United, and the Spaniard thinks if the Red Devils slip up then the Sky Blues will be in prime position to pounce for top spot.<\/p>\n<p>Silva told <em>The Sun<\/em>: &#8220;If we win at Stamford Bridge and United have a few more problems in the closing weeks, there is still a chance of us winning the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The winger also believes the onus will be on Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s side to go forward and press for victory due to their own title ambitions and the World Cup winner thinks whoever can handle the situation better will win the game.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Chelsea are also obliged to win, so the situation increases the pressure. I think the team with the better attack will win. We need to hold our nerve and not change our attacking philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard has also backed Carlos Tevez to regain his scoring form, the Argentinean has found the net just once in his last nine games which is typical of City\u2019s recent striking woes and Silva revealed how highly he rated his team-mate:&#8221;Carlos\u00a0 Tevez is one of the best footballers in the world and decisive for us. I&#8217;ve learned a lot from him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/874cc3ee116738_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/19\/2401886\/david-silva-victory-over-chelsea-will-put-manchester-city\" title=\"David Silva: Victory over Chelsea will put Manchester City back in title race\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Silva: Victory over Chelsea will put Manchester City back in title race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Simon Sinclair 19 Mar 2011 13:55:00 David Silva, Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City midfielder David Silva believes his team can still win the Premier League title if they beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. City currently lie in third place, seven points behind leaders and local rivals Manchester United, and the Spaniard thinks if the Red Devils slip up then the Sky Blues will be in prime position to pounce for top spot. Silva told The Sun : &#8220;If we win at Stamford Bridge and United have a few more problems in the closing weeks, there is still a chance of us winning the league.\u201d The winger also believes the onus will be on Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s side to go forward and press for victory due to their own title ambitions and the World Cup winner thinks whoever can handle the situation better will win the game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>David Silva: Victory over Chelsea will put Manchester City back in title race - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/david-silva-victory-over-chelsea-will-put-manchester-city-back-in-title-race\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"David Silva: Victory over Chelsea will put Manchester City back in title race - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Simon Sinclair 19 Mar 2011 13:55:00 David Silva, Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City midfielder David Silva believes his team can still win the Premier League title if they beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. 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