Pep Guardiola’s team visits Stamford Bridge with an obligation to salvage a win to keep Arsenal at the top.
Chelsea Y Manchester City encourage a high-level duel at Stamford Bridge, in the match match to the date 19 of the Premier League. Both teams urgently arrive to return to the hugs not to give up more ground in the competition. While Graham Potter’s men failed to go beyond equality during their visit to Nottingham Forest (1-1), Pep Guardiola’s men against Everton swapped the pointslocal Currently the Citizens are second with 36 points, seven behind league leaders Arsenal, and the Blues are ninth with 25 points, five behind qualifying positions for international tournaments.
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- Chelsea have lost their last two Premier League home games against Man City; only against Blackburn (1993-94 to 1995-96) and Arsenal (2020-21 to 2022-23) did they lose three in a row at Stamford Bridge.
- Manchester City clinched the Premier League double against Chelsea last season – winning just once against the Blues in the league three times in a row (December 2009 to September 2010).
- Manchester City have won seven of their last 10 Premier League games against Chelsea (L3), as many as they have won in the previous 25 against the Blues (L4 L14).
- Pep Guardiola has lost just seven of his 34 Premier League games in London as manager of Man City (W22 D5), and these seven defeats have been against Chelsea (3) or Tottenham Hotspur (4).
- Manchester City have won their first Premier League game in each of the last 10 calendar years, since a 1-0 defeat to Sunderland in 2012. Their first league game in each of the last two years was in London (3-1 vs. Chelsea in 2021, 2-1 vs. Arsenal in 2022).
- Chelsea have lost just one of their last 11 Premier League home games (W6 D4). Their 1–0 defeat to Arsenal in November was the only time they failed to score in their last 23 league games at Stamford Bridge.
- Manchester City have lost just one of their last 25 Premier League away games (W18 D6), losing 1-0 to Liverpool in October. They want to win three head-to-head matches for the first time since April/May 2022, the second of these wins coming in Leeds.
- Chelsea’s Raheem Sterling scored 91 goals in 225 Premier League appearances for Manchester City between 2015 and 2022. Prior to joining the club, he was involved in four goals in his last four Premier League appearances against the Citizens (1 goal, 3 assists at Liverpool).
- Erling Haaland has scored seven goals in his six Premier League away games for Man City, netting twice in London against West Ham in August. Only two players have scored more than one goal in their first two PL away games in London: Mark Robins in 1992 (for Norwich vs Arsenal and Chelsea) and Michu in 2012 (for Swansea vs QPR and Arsenal).
- Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has managed eight defeats against Chelsea in all competitions, his most against a single opponent (including eight against Liverpool). However, they have won their last three against them without conceding a goal, including a 2-0 win in the League Cup in November.
The game between the Blues and Citizens will air on ESPN on the following channels, depending on your cable operator:
- VTR: 48 (SD) (Stgo) – 843 (HD)
- DTV: 621 (SD) – 1620 (HD)
- ENTEL: 212 (HD)
- BRIGHT: 174 (SD) – 474 (HD)
- GTD/TELSUR: 84 (SD)
- MOVISTAR: 480 (SD) – 884 (HD)
- YOU SEE: 508 (SD)
- ZAP: 90 (HD)
*Streaming sends it through the platform Star+ It offers a monthly and an annual subscription. To contract it, you must go to the website www.starplus.com. The service is available for TV, computers, mobile phones, tablets and consoles.
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