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Roberto Mancini: Chelsea 80% certain to beat Galatasaray
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Galatasaray manager Roberto Mancini
believes Chelsea have "an 80% chance" of beating his side to advance
into the Champions League quarter-finals.
The Premier League leaders visit the
Turkish champions on Wednesday for the first leg of their last-16 tie.
Ex-Manchester City boss Mancini
insists Chelsea, who have won the Champions League and Europa League in the
past two seasons, are strong favourites.
"They have fantastic players
used to playing games like this," he said.
"I think they have an 80%
chance of going through."
Mancini, who took charge of the Istanbul
club in September, believes the Blues are capable of winning trophies this
season, despite Jose Mourinho claiming his team were "too young" to
challenge for major honours.
"They have really good players
- these players who can change the game at any moment," added the Italian.
Mancini says ex-Chelsea striker
Didier Drogba, who is facing the Blues for the first time since leaving in
2012, and Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder are vital to Galatasaray's hopes of
reaching the last eight for the second successive season.
"Didier was an important man,
an important player for Chelsea," said the Italian. "Wesley won a
Champions League at Inter Milan under Mourinho.
"They have a good relationship
with him, but today, for 90 minutes, I think they will be enemies.
"After 90 minutes, they can go
and have a dinner together. But for 90 minutes they should play at more than
100%. We need Didier and Wesley to play very, very well."
Earlier this week, Mancini claimed
some of the credit for that Champions League win - Mourinho succeeded the
Italian at Inter.
But the Chelsea manager dismissed
Mancini's influence in the 2010 success: "From 11 players, he didn't work
with six of them. So he made a five-a-side team because I played with only five
players from his team."
Wednesday's tie will not be the
first reunion between Drogba and his old boss Mourinho, who signed him for the
west London club from Marseille in 2004.
The Ivory Coast striker played for
Galatasaray in a Champions League quarter-final tie against Mourinho's Real
Madrid side last season, although the Portuguese boss admits it is still a
"difficult and strange feeling" to face Drogba.
"But we have to do our job. We
know he wants to do his job," he said.
"Last year it happened the
same. I want to do my job to help my team, and he tried to do his by scoring
goals, which he did.
"But I admit it's a strange
feeling we have to try and forget during the game."
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APC condemns Yobe school attack, urges the President to visit state
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| Yobe Killing |
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Race to become Ondo new Speaker hots up, three names shortlisted
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Although, many of his colleagues have declined to comment on his death, it is hoped that the zoning formula in the state will be maintained.
Since the Governor is from the Southern Senatorial District, while his Deputy is from the North, automatically, the South should retain the vacant seat of the Speaker.
Presently, three lawmakers from the South are supposedly fit for the position.
They are: Oyebo Aladetan.
Aladetan who is from Ilaje Constituency 1 is a second termer in the Assembly. He is presently the Chairman, House Committee on Information. He was former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before he defected to the ruling Labour Party.
Aladetan was part of the palace coup that put an end to the reign of the PDP in the Ondo State House of Assembly. He was also one of the lawmakers who did not attend the budget presentation in the Assembly last year. He is one of the lawmakers that may be considered for the position of Mr. Speaker
Victor Akinwe
Victor Akinwe is from Odigbo Constituency 11. He is not also a green horn as this is his second term in the Assembly. A former Deputy Speaker of the Assembly. He may also be considered for the plum job.
Gbenga Edema:
He is a trained lawyer who is highly intelligent but a first timer. He is
from Ilaje Constituency 11.
Against all odds, the Governor may however ignore the political zoning
formula if he wishes, but the step is logical.
Despite all these, the influence of Governor Olusegun Mimiko on who should emerge as the speaker of the State must not be put aside.
It would be recalled that in order for Mimiko to take over the Assembly in 2010, the former Speaker, Taofik Abdulsalam was impeached, leading to a mass defection of PDP lawmakers to the ruling Labour Party (LP).
Therefore, Mimiko’s factor may prevent any of the name mentioned above from getting the slot which favour them due to the senatorial zone system, especially, if he finds out that none of them is loyal to him.
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Ondo State House Of Assembly Speaker Is Dead
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| Ondo State Speaker-Samuel Adeshina |
Adesina died having suffered from cancer of Urinary bladder for six months.
Though, there have been several rumors of his death.
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