In this week 6 match on Sep 25th, Manchester City and Chelsea will play a match in London in a meeting of these two Premier League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 20 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. In their last match, 1st placed Chelsea, recorded a 3-0 shutout win against Tottenham Hotspur. Thiago Silva struck first for Chelsea in the 49th minute on a feed from Marcos Alonso, then N’Golo Kanté added another in the 57th minute on a feed from Mateo Kovačić In the end, Tottenham Hotspur couldn’t muster any offence and Chelsea ran away with the shutout win. With 18 points in their last 10 matches Chelsea should be reasonably happy with their performance, while manchester City sits at 5th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Southampton. Neither Manchester City nor Southampton could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 15 and 11 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. Manchester City is looking for direction having earned 15 points in their last 10 matches.
On the 29th of May, Manchester City hosted Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium in their last match together. Chelsea took the match by a score of 1 to 0 in front of just over 16000 dissapointed fans. Kai Havertz scored the first goal for Chelsea in the 42nd minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Manchester City couldn’t manage to score, and Chelsea took the shutout win.
Manchester City is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Ferrán Torres and Gabriel Jesus each having 2 goals in their last five. Chelsea is fortunate enough to have Romelu Lukaku in top form. In the last 5 matches the attacker has scored four goals
Thomas Tuchel’s squad will be without Christian Pulišić, N’Golo Kanté and Reece James, while John Stones and Aymeric Laporte are unavailable to play for Josep Guardiola i Sala’s team.