Manchester City and Chelsea meet on Saturday in a big match between the top four.
WATCH – Manchester City vs Chelsea
Pep Guardiola’s City are reeling after a damaging midweek loss to PSG as they want to win their Champions League top-flight to have any chance of progressing to the last 16. City led 2-0 in the second half, but ended up losing 4-2 after another devastating collapse. In the Premier League, City have won 3 of their last 4 games and beat Ipswich 6-0 last weekend, but Guardiola will have to find defensive answers, especially against the big boys. After adding Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis in the January transfer market, their squad has been strengthened, although there is still no assistance in midfield.
Chelsea have struggled to finish off teams in recent weeks but that wasn’t a problem in their 3-1 win against Wolves on Monday. Enzo Maresca’s side are two points ahead of Man City heading into this game and if you had told them that when these teams met on the opening day of the season, Chelsea would have taken that. There’s still a feeling of disappointment about their poor run over the last month but they create so many chances each game and are a lot of fun to watch.
Start time: 12:30 p. m. ET Saturday (January 25) Location: Etihad Stadium – Manchester TV Channel: Peacock Stream: Premier League on Peacock
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