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A surprise from Guardiola
Predicting a Pep Guardiola Starting XI is one of the toughest jobs in Manchester. The Catalan likes to keep everyone in doubt and he is usually successful, regularly launching a surprise selection or a tactical tinkerer by his side.
He did it a week ago against Arsenal when the City team asked those in the press to understand how the Blues could align, and then see Fernandinho present himself as a central defender before moving sometimes to the middle of the field.
Given that Bernardo Silva recently left the wing and that Aymeric Laporte was spotted on the left-back, it would not be surprising to see another surprise, especially as Maurizio Sarri is in the sideline of the opposition.
The teams have discovered that the Jorginho stop has tended to stop recently at Chelsea and it will be interesting to see if Guardiola follows the pattern established by Arsenal and Bournemouth, who both played a diamond to disrupt the game. old Napoli or stick to a 4- 3-3.
Anyway, there will surely be a surprise or two in Guardiola's camp.
De Bruyne as super under
Guardiola was enthusiastic about Kevin De Bruyne's super-submarine role at Goodison on Wednesday night, for the last minute of regulation time and the extra seven minutes.
Even though it's always nice to hear your manager's praise, it's fair to say that De Bruyne sees himself as something more than a great submarine. But on Friday, Guardiola said there was no guarantee that he would leave against Chelsea.
The season was strange for the Belgian maestro, who suffered two knee injuries and completed only 90 minutes once a season. Even though there were flashes of that brightness that we expected, it was all that they were.
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But to start a part of this scale without De Bruyne seemed unthinkable a year ago. It remains the feeling that the 27-year-old could still make the difference in a tense title race, given his coolness in the final months of the season, but his position in Guardiola's plans will become clearer against. Chelsea.
Title race pressure
That's back on City this weekend. The Blues did their job this week, beating Arsenal last Sunday and Everton midweek to heat up at Anfield.
After draws, Liverpool found their victory against Bournemouth Saturday. It is now time for the city to find an answer and return to the top of the league.
If Guardiola's team manages to score three points, it will take two weeks in Liverpool to emphasize the importance of his match. Two weeks today against Manchester United at Old Trafford.
Guardiola Sarri
There is always a sub-plot when these two managers face each other after Guardiola's laudatory praise for the Sarri camp in Naples last season. On this occasion, they played two remarkable matches in the group stage of the Champions League, won by City.
Sarri took his revenge in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge in December, but two months later, the question is how long Sarri-Ball will last in the Premier League, rather than knowing what he will achieve.
The Italian recently questioned the motivation of his own players and they produced rotten performances on the road after their defeat against Arsenal and Bournemouth.
Chelsea seems vulnerable to a team like City for the moment, but Guardiola will know better than underestimate a Sarri team.
Dean's Day
Mike Dean has a red card on a century of layoffs in the Premier League and supports the biggest match of the weekend in the weekend time slot. Do you think what I think? Let's hope Super Sunday is about footballers rather than the referee.
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