Chelsea Boss Ancelotti Wary Of 'Dangerous' Manchester City

Premier League : Carlo Ancelotti (Chelsea)

Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is treating Manchester United with the utmost respect before his team travel to Eastlands on Saturday.

City can reach an English club record of eight consecutive league draws against the Londoners, but Ancelotti believes that their comprehensive victory over Arsenal in midweek means that Mark Hughes's side have now rediscovered some form.

"Tomorrow we have to play against a dangerous team, because Manchester City has a lot of players with very good technical quality, top players," Ancelotti said, according to his club's official website.

"They didn't win the last seven games and they want to win against Chelsea because we are top of the list. They will have very good motivation to play against us and we have to pay attention to this."

And Ancelotti feels that the Citizens have every chance of cracking the top four this season.

"I think so," he mused. "They have a possibility because they have a good squad, but when they change a lot of players in the season with a new squad, it is not easy to have the time to put a team on the pitch, to find immediately the right way."

Chelsea themselves lost at Blackburn Rovers in their own League Cup quarter-final on Wednesday night, but Ancelotti does not see that as a major setback.

"Every defeat normally is not good, but the priority of that game was to give minutes to the players that didn't play against Arsenal and to give experience to young players," he added.

"Our priority was that, and also a chance to give recovery to the other players.

"The League Cup was not so important, if we thought it was more important I would put in a different line-up. We are not disappointed, we showed good spirit, playing 60 minutes with 10 against 11, and drew in the last minute. This means we have a very good spirit, and this is important.

"We kept a lot of players in the training ground and they trained well, so for tomorrow we have a fresh team.

"If we continue to play like against Arsenal we have a very good possibility to arrive in first place but we have to pay attention because every game is difficult to play. There are a lot of teams in England with very good quality."