Pellegrini and Suarez Win Barclays December Award.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini and Liverpool striker Luis
Suarez have won the Barclays monthly awards for December.
Pellegrini, who
collects the Premier League manager of the month award for the first
time since joining City in the summer, guided his team to an
unbeaten run in the month of December, recording five wins and a
draw.

Wins over Swansea City, West Bromwich Albion, Arsenal, Fulham,
Liverpool and Crystal Palace helped City move from sixth place on
the table(with 22 points from 12 matches and nine points adrift of
the leaders) to second place (with 41 points from 19 fixtures and
within a point of league leaders Arsenal).
Manuel Pellegrini Clinches His First Barclays Manager of the Month
Award.

The 2011 champions scored 30 goals during the period, which has
made them the right candidate to break Chelsea’s record seasonal
haul of 103 goals achieved in the 2009/10 season.
Suarez became the first player in the Barclays Premier League history
to reach double figures in a calendar month with ten goals in
December.

Four of those goals came on December 4 during Liverpool’s 5-1 win
over Norwich City. He followed that up with two goals each in three
of his subsequent league appearances for the Reds.
His brace against Cardiff City propelled Brendan Rodgers’ side to the
top of the league standing at Christmas for the first time since 2008.