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Manuel Pellegrini obviously reckons that on the law of averages Andy Carroll was likely to grab a couple of goals this afternoon.
After Lucas Perez and Chicharito had managed at Newcastle and against Cardiff he imagined Carroll was likely to get a brace .
The manager said: “Of course, we are happy that three different players scored. I had to make a change during the half-time because Lucas couldn’t continue playing, so I told Andy that it was his moment to score two goals, as it had been for Hernandez and Lucas, now it was time for Carroll!
“Well, he didn’t score but he worked hard and we scored three goals as a team!”
Now up to tenth Pelle said: “We started so badly with not one point from four games, so it was very difficult to recover after that bad a start, but I think we must continue.
“If we win the next game maybe we will negate that bad start, but I said to the players that we must keep the winning mentality and try to go game by game.
“Now we have to play against Fulham away, a team that is near the bottom of the table which is always difficult, so we must enjoy this game for today and tomorrow think about the next one.”