Thursday night’s Premier League match between Manchester City and a struggling Chelsea team ended in a hard-fought victory for Pep Guardiola’s team.
At Stamford Bridge, Riyad Mahrez scored the game’s lone goal against Graham Potter’s team despite the fact that they virtually controlled the entire match. City ended up winning all three points.
The youthful Chelsea side fell to a slim defeat at the hands of Man City, with Raheem Sterling and Christian Pulisic picking up injuries during the encounter.
A disappointing night for Chelsea as Manchester City close the gap to the Premier leaders – Arsenal after winning at Stamford Bridge.
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However, the six facts we gathered from Manchester City’s close victory over the Chelsea are listed below.
- Manchester City are only the second side ever to win four consecutive meetings with Chelsea in all competitions while also keeping a clean sheet each time, after Bolton Wanderers from 1958 to 1960.
- Chelsea have now gone 408 minutes without a goal vs Manchester City in all competitions. ??
- The Graham Potter side have won just one of their last eight Premier League matches (D3 L4) – since the first game in this run on October 19th, no side has won fewer games in the competition.
- Since he joined Man City in 2018, Riyad Mahrez has scored more Premier League goals as a substitute than any other player (9). He scored his goal, assisted by Jack Grealish, just 3 minutes and 43 seconds after both players had been subbed on.
- Jack Grealish has registered as many Premier League assists for Manchester City in the last three games (3) as he managed in his first 34 games for the club.
- Jack Grealish has registered as many Premier League assists for Manchester City in the last three games (3) as he managed in his first 34 games for the club.