Manchester City hosted Chelsea at Etihad in the Game Week 22 of the Premier League on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The home team started the match with a 4-3-3 flat formation.<\/p>\n
The playing eleven was-<\/strong><\/p>\n Ederson (gk), Walker, Stones, Laporte,\u00a0 Cancelo, De Bruyne, Rodri, Silva, Sterling, Grealish, Foden.<\/p>\n The visitor\u2019s team started with a 3-4-2-1 formation.<\/p>\n Their playing eleven was-<\/strong><\/p>\n Kepa(gk), Rudiger, Silva, Sarr, Alonso, Kovacic, Kant\u00e9, Azpillicueta, Pulisic, Ziyech, Lukaku.<\/p>\n In the 7th\u00a0 minute of the game, Marcus Alonso got a yellow when he brought down Sterling on the wing.<\/p>\n The first quarter of the game was controlled by Man City as expected with possession of\u00a0 61 % to Chelsea\u2019s 39 %. But none of the goalkeepers was tested on either side of the pitch, The first shot on target was made by De Bryune in the 23rd minute of the game.<\/p>\n This was the first game in which the Blue\u2019s were not able to register a single shot on target on the opposition\u2019s goal in 27 minutes in the Premier League. Kovacic received a yellow card on the 32nd\u00a0 minute when he tackled Bernardo Silva. Kepa had to make a save after Grealish was gifted the ball by a blind pass from Kovacic in the 39th minute.<\/p>\n The first half of the match was a dull performance from Chelsea as they were sloppy and had less energy in the final third of the pitch, whereas Manchester City was also not at their very best and had a few chances to score the goal.<\/p>\n The second half started on a high note for Chelsea as Lukaku registered the first shot on target for Chelsea in the first couple of minutes. In the 62nd\u00a0 minute, Kepa had to make a routine save from De Bryune\u2019s freekick. De Bryune\u2019s Brilliant Strike in the 70th minute put Citizen\u2019s ahead 1-0 in the match. The matchwinner De Bruyne was replaced by Gundogan in the 84th minute.<\/p>\n In the second half, Chelsea played better but City emerge victorious after a belter of a strike from Kevin de Bryune which extended the Citizen\u2019s lead at the top of the table to 13 points in the Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manchester City wins the match 1-0 against Chelsea and extend their lead at the top by 13 points in the Premier League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":33621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2549,2959,1939,220,359,453],"class_list":["post-11145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-etihad-stadium","tag-kevin-de-bruyne","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-thomas-tuchel"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}