John Terry thinks the old Jose Mourinho Chelsea team would beat Manchester City
The Blues won back-to-back Prem titles in 2005 and 2006, and ex-skipper insists those teams would see off Citizens
JOHN TERRY reckons Jose Mourinho's early Chelsea team would beat Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.
Former Blues skipper Terry is convinced Mourinho’s side between 2004 and 2006 would be more than a match for the current Premier League leaders.
Chelsea won the title back-to-back with Didier Drogba in full flow up front.
And Terry told Sky Sports the rest of the side would have ranked very well against the City of today.
And that's taking account the fact that the Citizens are unbeaten after 18 league matches and have won a record 16 matches in a row.
Not to mention scoring an 56 goals, conceding just 12, and beating all five of their nearest rivals.
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Terry, close to full fitness against with Aston Villa, said:“I would say 04/05, 05/06 [would be best suited to face Manchester City].
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“I think them first two years when Jose Mourinho first arrived at the club. Yeah [I think we’d beat them].
“We were never afraid to say ‘you know what, Arsenal will have better possession than us, but we’re set, we’re comfortable’.
“So the full-backs can go, [Claude] Makelele would always sit which was obviously great for us two [centre-backs].
“But what we had was great legs, great strength and power, but we had the big man up front.
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“Didier makes such a difference and you’re looking at your tactics: ‘can we sit and stay compact?
"Yeah we can’.
“But we had that ball into Didier, he was so good, he used to hold it up, he could hold it up and then you’d have the runners off of him, Lamps [Frank Lampard] would be box-to-box every game.”