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City Edge Ten-Man Blues

Manchester City produced a swashbuckling second-half display to beat 10-man Chelsea 3-2 in the Community Shield and warn the rest of the Premier Leaguethat they are ready to retain their title.

Roberto Mancini may believe that Manchester United are favourites to win the league this season but his City side were in fine form at Villa Park and dominated this feisty match despite falling behind to Fernando Torres’ 40th-minute strike.

Yaya Toure, Carlos Tevez and Samir Nasri struck three superb goals after the break as City took advantage of space in the Chelsea defence created by the red card shown to Branislav Ivanovic in the 42nd minute for a horrible studs-up challenge on Aleksandar Kolarov.

Ryan Bertrand grabbed a late goal back for Chelsea but City held on comfortably to complete a successful day following the news that they had agreed a fee with Everton to sign Jack Rodwell.

There was certainly nothing charitable about the traditional season curtain-raiser as fierce challenges flew in with almost the same ferocity as the rain pounding down in the west Midlands.

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