05 Jan How a Flock of Pigeons Explains Manchester City’s Win Over Chelsea
If you watched Sunday’s Premier League match between Chelsea and Manchester City, perhaps you had a similar pre-game reaction to me: Wow, those lineups seem pretty evenly matched! Despite finishing an average of 24 points behind City over the past three seasons, a couple years of savvy spending and prospect development from Chelsea — and the opposite from Manchester — seemed to have closed the gap between the two teams. Even just comparing the player ratings from the video game FIFA for each team’s starting eleven suggested as much: the talent levels on these two teams were not all that different.