On Saturday, from 17:30 pm, Manchester City receives a visit to Chelsea in the 13th round of the Premier League. The two teams also met in the English Super Cup this summer, when the “citizens” won the cause. Pep Guardiola cannot rely on Laporte, Sane, Bernardo Silva and Zinchenko at the weekend, while guests are without Rudiger, Barkley, Pulisic and Loftus-Cheek.
The Manchester City champion goes through less happy moments and came down in 4th place in the Premier League (goal 35-13), with two failures in the last five stages. Chelsea, under the command of Frank Lampard, is in 3rd place (golaveraj 27-17), with a point over “citizens”. Leader is Liverpool, with 34 points and an unbeatable course this season: 11 wins and a draw in the first 12 stages. It will be the 164th straight duel between the two teams, and Chelsea leads to wins: 67-56.
City come after Liverpool derby, lost 1-3 at Anfield, before the international break. Prior to this match, Manchester City had drawn with Atalanta (1-1) in the Champions League, after a series of three domestic victories: 3-0 with Aston Villa, 3-1 and 2-1 with Southampton. Chelsea defeated Crystal Palace last stage (0-2), after a spectacular draw with Ajax, in UCL, score 4-4! As a rule, Chelsea’s matches are very spectacular, and in 4 of the previous 5 games played by Londoners have scored at least three goals! Surprisingly, however, some statistics before the derby.
In the previous 5 matches between City and Chelsea it happened every time to register a single team (or none)! Chelsea have only one active victory, 2-0, while City prevailed with 1-0, 2-0 and 6-0, and awarded Supercupa to penalties, after 0-0 during the regular season and in overtime. With the best offensive in England, “citizens” will attack Chelsea from the start, but Frank Lampard’s youngsters have the ability to pose big problems to the host. Moreover, Chelsea has opened the scoring in the previous five championship games and it can be very dangerous!
PROBABLE TEAMS IN MANCHESTER CITY – CHELSEA
Man. City: Ederson; Walker, Stones, Fernandinho, Mendy; De Bruyne, Rodri, D.Silva; Mahrez, Aguero, Sterling
Chelsea: Arrizabalaga; Azpilicueta, Zouma, Tomori, Palmieri; Kante, Jorginho, Kovacic; Willian, Abraham, Pulisic
PREDICTION: Manchester City to win @ 1,47
