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It is better not to be left behind against Manchester City for now. Coach Pep Guardiola has changed his team’s tactic this season: instead of attacking as much as possible, it is now about protection. The city currently conceded few goals, most recently there were two out of ten competitive games. Actually, the best Premier League match in Chelsea was almost decided when Ilkay Gündogan scored 1-0 (18 minutes).
The question from then on was: With what confidence would City win this game?
Pretty sure. After just 34 minutes it was 3-0, in injury time, substitute Tammy Abraham scored 3-1 to make the final score. Before that, the guests in particular had missed opportunities.
It was a major win for City, the team now have up to four points over leader Liverpool, but still have a game up their sleeve. In general, an exciting title fight is emerging in England. After nearly half the season, first and sixth place separate four points.
Chelsea, on the other hand, begins to have a problem. The team has lost contact with the top of the table, seven points separate the Blues and Liverpool, only this time it is Chelsea that has played one more match.
Chelsea’s crisis is that of manager Frank Lampard, who has only won one of the last seven competitive matches with his team. But there is also the crisis of Timo Werner and Kai Havertz, the two national players who came together for around 130 million euros before the season.
Werner quickly earned a regular spot, but is currently experiencing a hiatus. They last met in early November. Since then he has been scoreless in twelve appearances, and was also pale against City. The situation is more complicated in Havertz, he often sits on the bench, even against City, when he came in after 77 minutes. The low form may be related to your November crown disease.
The loss to Manchester was now the low point of the Chelsea season. The Blues had no chance against coach Guardiola’s team, despite Manchester only missing five professionals due to positive findings from Corona, including goalkeeper Ederson and forward Gabriel Jesus.
However, Manchester dominated the game from the kick-off. Even before 1-0, Kevin de Bruyne had given a great opportunity (16.). Shortly after, the Belgian started the opening goal by taking out Phil Foden; The 20-year-old passed the ball to Gündogan, who processed it with the sole in a technically demanding manner and placed it from the edge of the penalty area.
De Bruyne was also involved at 2-0, this time he found Foden in the penalty area, and fired the ball straight into the near angle (21). City countered Chelsea 3-0, Raheem Sterling circled Chelsea goalkeeper Édouard Mendy, wavered, wavered and then hit the post, and was lucky that De Bruyne took advantage of the rebound (34th).
Subsequently, City missed a series of ever smaller opportunities, with Guardiola’s team playing in a system without a true center forward. In addition to Gabriel Jesús, the recently recovered Sergio Agüero was also missing in the starting eleven.
De Bruyne usually took over the position in the center of attack, or not. The numerous evasive moves caused problems for London’s central defense. In the end, the ratio of shots on goal from Chelsea’s perspective was 9:18.
