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Pep Guardiola has questions to answer at Manchester City.It was a dream start at City for the coach regarded by many as the best in the world. Ten competitive games; 10 wins; a runaway Premier League win seemingly in the bag. But thats not how the game works and -- fast forward a little over two months -- there are now big question marks over the Manchester clubs title credentials.They will try to bounce back from another disheartening setback when hosting Watford on Wednesday night at the Etihad.Man City (9-3-3) have won just four of their last 15 matches in all competitions and been hit for seven goals over the course of their last two league fixtures. Saturdays 4-2 loss to Leicester City raised doubts over Citys ability to cope with the physical demands of English football.I am not a coach for the tackles, a prickly Guardiola said after the defeat. I dont train for tackles. What I want is to try to play well and score goals.What are tackles? You have to win the duels -- that is true. But normally when you play well you win tackles, but after four minutes, at 2-0, the mind of the players is: What is going on? What happened?It is another aspect of football, but in the end we are not going to win or lose because of the tackles.The remarks are Guardiola being consciously obtuse, almost toying with the real football men scattered across the English media. But the critics of his style would point to the fact that his team had just been dismantled by Leicester as a good example of why his team do indeed need to discover some backbone to go along with the tactical flexibility and pretty build-up play.Wednesdays game against Watford (6-3-6) should be just the chance that City need to show that theyve got the mentality required to catch league leaders Chelsea -- who are currently seven points ahead heading into the midweek matches.Walter Mazzarris Watford have struggled for consistency away from home and allowed nine goals in their last two league matches on the road -- a worrying defensive record ahead of a meeting with free-scoring City.But Watford are no pushovers, as shown by the weekends 3-2 home win over Everton. The Hornets will have taken hope from Citys capitulation against Leicester.I saw the game against Leicester, Mazzarri said. I was surprised, but in Italy we have a saying: Each game has its own story.That result wont help us. We will find Manchester City very angry and concentrated, we wont have the luck that they will underestimate us.Angry and concentrated they may be, but the Citizens will be missing both club captain Vincent Kompany due to injury and talismanic striker Sergio Aguero due to suspension.Watford have a number of injury concerns, and Mazzarri has admitted that he is concerned over the fitness of a number of those who started against Everton at the weekend.After such an intense game like the one against Everton, where we spent a lot physically and mentally, its hard for me to decide on the team that will take part in the game against Manchester City, the Watford boss said.Some of the players have trained since individually, some trained with the whole team. In order to make a decision we will assess them (Tuesday) or the day after.Adrian Mariappa is certainly unavailable due to a knee injury, but Craig Cathcart, Younes Kaboul and Valon Behrami will face late fitness tests. 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A two-time 20-goal scorer, Jones will play in Calgarys top nine forwards and is likely to score on better than 4.8% of his shots, his career-low set last season but, given Calgarys current crop of centres, it would be asking a lot for Jones to immediately bounce back to 20 goals or 40 points and, for $4-million per season, thats probably on the low end of what should be expected in order to provide value. 29-year-old Shane OBrien had his role reduced, with his ice time down from 19:13 per game in 2011-2012 to 15:30 last season, while playing only 28 of 48 games, but his puck possession stats were quite good when he did play. OBrien is 6-foot-3, 230 pounds and provides toughness. His 853 penalty minutes in seven seasons ranks 11th in the league over that time. OBrien does figure to get more regular playing time in Calgary, and is under contract for two more years, at $2-million per season. If he gives the Flames 17-18 minutes a night, with a little bite to his game, then OBrien will be doing his part. The Avalanche Get: LW Alex Tanguay and D Cory Sarich. Since returning to Calgary in 2010, Alex Tanguay has recorded 145 points; only Jarome Iginla had more for the Flames over the last three seasons. Tanguay, 33, hasnt had strong puck possession numbers in recent sseasons, but hes also done some heavy lifting, facing tough matchups and starting more shifts in the defensive zone, factors which contributed to his career-low minus-13 rating last season.ddddddddddddA rare high percentage shooter, Tanguay has scored on 18.8% of his shots in his career, highest among active players and he scored on a career-high 25.0% of his shots last season. Moving back to Colorado, where he spent the first six years of his career, should allow Tanguay to play more of a complementary role, and while its not likely that he can score on such a high percentage of shots again, Tanguay could, playing with more talented centres, generate more shots on goal than the 1.10 per game he did last season, his lowest shot rate since his rookie season. Theres no reason to expect Tanguay to get better in his mid-30s, but its entirely reasonable to think that he can play a top six role for the next couple seasons. Hes under contract for three years and $10.5-million, so if he manages to do it for each of those three seasons, then that would be ideal for the Avalanche. 34-year-old Cory Sarich has been even more of a part-time player than OBrien, playing more than 16 minutes per game once in the last four seasons, including a career-low 14:52 per game last season, dressing for 28 of 48 games in 2013. Sarich is big, physical and has played 972 (regular season plus playoff) games in his career. Even though the Avalanche have major needs on defence, Sarich isnt the answer to those questions, so he likely fills the seventh or eighth spot on the depth chart. His contract, at a $2-million cap hit, expires at seasons end. Colorado gets a slight edge on this deal, in my view, because they save a little money and have a better chance of getting adequate production out of Tanguay over the next three seasons. Scott Cullen can be reached at Scott.Cullen@bellmedia.ca and followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tsnscottcullen. For more, check out TSN Fantasy on Facebook. ' ' '