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For the stars of Pep Guardiola follows a top match at the top match. After two matches in London against Arsenal, Chelsea will come to visit Etihad Stadium on Sunday. Chelsea lost to Manchester United last weekend and Antonio Conte’s team does not want to lose again in Manchester.
Manchester City :
This Manchester City is unstoppable in England and the question is whether the formation of Guardiola can be stopped by clubs like FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. A number of Champions League participants have to be able to offer Manchester City at least a lot more than all clubs from the Premier League have done this season. The Citizens can become the earliest ever champion in the Premier League if they continue like this. That record is currently owned by Manchester United, which became champion on April 14, 2001, but if Manchester City continues to win everything in the coming weeks, The Citizens will be able to champion Manchester United on April 7th. It will of course be very special for Manchester City to be the arch-rival champion and in fact The Citizens with Chelsea still see an opponent of size for the derby against United.
At Arsenal they also know where they are after having played two games against the Guardiola team. After the 1-0 defeat of Manchester City on a visit to Wigan Athletic, The Citizens had something to put right in the FA Cup final against Arsenal last weekend. That game was won by 0-3 by Manchester City and Thursday evening The Citizens at Emirates Stadium were also 0-3 too strong for Arsenal. Bernardo Silva, David Silva and Leroy Sané scored the score at 0-3 after half an hour of playing football. In the second half Ederson also took a penalty on behalf of The Citizens and at Manchester City they managed to turn no less than eleven of the last nineteen penalties (not including penalties).
The question is what keeps Manchester City from winning next to the League Cup also the Premier League and the Champions League. The Citizens do not have Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo in the selection, but each position is double occupied by the Guardiola team. If Sergio Agüero is not fit, then the Guardiola can start with Gabriel Jesus, Vincent Kompany has an injury, then Aymeric Laporte can fill up the gap perfectly and the strength of the selection is also the strength of Manchester City this season. Against Chelsea Guardiola still has to play without Benjamin Mendy and Fernandinho, while it remains to be seen whether Raheem Sterling and Kyle Walker are fit enough to play.
Chelsea :
At Chelsea they have known for weeks that they will not succeed in extending the title. The Blues have no less than 22 points behind Manchester City and are in a disappointing fifth place in the Premier League. Last weekend Chelsea could do good business in the battle for Champions League football, but then Manchester United had to be won and that did not happen. The Blues had a backlog of two points on Tottenham Hotspur prior to round 29 and the chance that the difference between Tottenham and Chelsea will be even larger this weekend is present.
Last Sunday, 2-1 was lost from Manchester United at Old Trafford last Sunday. Willian shot Chelsea in the lead against Manchester United and The Blues also played well in the first half, but went with a 1-1 half-time score. In the second half, however, Manchester United took control and The Red Devils also made the 2-1 fifteen minutes before time. For the first time since April 2017, Chelsea took the lead in the Premier League, but it still went down. Nevertheless Conte will have been satisfied with the number of chances his team managed to create at Old Trafford.
Sunday afternoon there is again a game in Manchester on the program for Chelsea and The Blues are not like Premier League games on Sunday in Manchester. Chelsea lost only four of the 55 Premier League-games that it played on Sunday, but all four defeats all came about in Manchester. Tiemoue Bakayoko and Ross Barkley have trained again this week at Chelsea, but like David Luiz do not seem to be fit for the cracker against Manchester City in time.
Manchester City vs Chelsea head to head matches
30.09.17 PL Chelsea Manchester City 0 : 1
05.04.17 PL Chelsea Manchester City 2 : 1
03.12.16 PL Manchester City Chelsea 1 : 3
16.04.16 PL Chelsea Manchester City 0 : 3
21.02.16 FAC Chelsea Manchester City 5 : 1