Manchester City v Chelsea: Premier League – Live! | Soccer

It is missing two meters, then marks 25! Zinchenko falls to the left, cuts inside, gets some lucky rebounds on Chelsea's shins and finally hands the ball back to Aguero, who shoots a delicious shot in the highest corner, far away!

12 minutes: David Luiz's excellent pbad through the midfield finds Hazard, who turns and heads for the goal. He enters the area but is forced on wide and when he pulls he is unbalanced and hits a weak effort that stops easily.

8 minutes: What a lack of Aguero! Unbelievable! The withdrawal of De Bruyne to Bernardo Silva is a little behind the Portuguese player. He would have had an easy chance if the pbad had been more accurate, but instead, he controls, moves away from the goal, keeps running, turns, turns his head towards the sideline and sends a low center , who finds Aguero just beyond the last post, with an open goal to aim for … and he misses it!

7 minutes: Chelsea approached the game in a very ambitious way, trying to attack City, pushing him to the back of the net. Which is fine except when they can not close them in their own repair area.

Chelsea is plunged into a deep sleep as De Bruyne prepares for a free kick, allowing the Belgian to miss out on an unseen Bernardo Silva, who has time to break into the box, measure his pbad and to slide the ball through lens. He was probably targeting Aguero, but Sterling found himself at the back post and hit him in the net!

3 minutes: Then the ball is raised above the defense of the city, Higuain crosses without scoring and is within a foot or two to reach it.

2 minutes: Hazard gently descends the left and slips the ball inside Higuain, but his shot is blocked and when he is finally returned, another shot is also blocked. "Showers", Simon, "Showers"? Confound George Peel. "Does this metropolitan speak for rockers?" I think they're very different from the flip-flops, lacking the string-like device that divides the toes, but I do not really know what's the right name for them.

Sky informs us that Callum Hudson-Odoi was part of the team that went to Manchester, so his absence is simply due to Sarri who does not really fear him.

The players are in the tunnel! Well, the Chelsea players are.

A little managerial chatter. Pep Guardiola approaches this match as a cup final:

So the last part of the season, 11, 12 games to play. It's important against home competitors especially to be solid as we have been these past two seasons and to try to win. Against Chelsea, Arsenal, United, the big teams, it's always a final. If you do not play this kind of games, you feel like a final, it's more complicated.

And here is Maurizio Sarri about Chelsea's victory over City in December:

We defended very well. We played a very good game. But I must say that we were lucky when we scored the first goal because we scored in a very difficult moment of the match for us.

"A shame not to see Hudson-Odoi in the Chelsea team today," says Adam Kline-Schoder. "I really liked watching him when he was given a chance; He has great skills, a lot of rhythm and a great ability to attack. These are things that Chelsea fans are looking for. A kind of surprise that Sarri does not seem to attribute to him, because it seems a natural fit. Do you know if he's hurt or if it's not imaginary today?

He was apparently suffering from an unspecified illness this week, which would explain his absence (or give Sarri an excuse not to use it, depending on the situation).

Here is an overview of the Chelsea locker room, with some very neat shower slides.

Oleksandr Zinchenko is the unexpected name of the line-up City. He made his fourth start of the season in the Premier League, but by far the most consistent (the others were against Brighton (h), Bournemouth (h) and Southampton (a)). His last championship minutes came at the end of December, but he played both legs of the Carabao Cup semi-final against Burton last month.

The team sheets are in it, and here are the names on it:

Man City: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Laporte, Zinchenko, Gundogan, Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Aguero, Sterling. Subs: Danilo, Sane, Silva, Mahrez, Otamendi, Gabriel Jesus, Muric.
Chelsea: Arrizabalaga, Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Luiz, Alonso, Kante, Jorginho, Barkley, Pedro, Higuain, Hazard. Subs: Loftus-Cheek, Caballero, Kovacic, Giroud, Willian, Christensen, Emerson Palmieri.
Arbitrator: Mike Dean.

Hi world!

So who are Chelsea? Is it about the team that triumphed 5-0 against Huddersfield in their last league match or the one that crashed 4-0 at Bournemouth in the previous match? Was he the group that bowed 2-0 to Arsenal in his last meeting with another top-six member, or who beat City 2-0 in the previous match?

Can they, in a word, give another twist to the scrambling spaghetti title? With another meeting with these opponents to follow in the final of the Carabao Cup later this month, will they be motivated in an unusual way by the desire to prove their collective courage and win their individual places for this match, boredom inevitably distract them?

City? Well, we know about them. "It's a final for us," says Pep Guardiola. "We have to play that way." Today's match against Chelsea could actually be more of a finale than the one that really will be. This is confusing.

In the next few hours, City could return to the top of the list, Liverpool will find himself once again with one game less and Chelsea will answer several questions, one way or another. Welcome!