Chelsea vs Manchester City as it happened – David Luiz impresses as City's undefeated run ends
Re-live the action from Stamford
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Your support makes all the difference.Chelsea inflicted Manchester City‘s first defeat of the season in a compelling contest at Stamford Bridge.
Strikers were conspicuous by their absence, with Chelsea’s Eden Hazard and City’s Raheem Sterling deployed in the ‘false nine’ position, and the hosts absorbed repeated pressure from Pep Guardiola‘s men before earning a 2-0 win.
Infrequent goalscorer N’Golo Kante gave Chelsea the lead on the stroke of half-time, completing a devastating counter-attack by scoring with the Blues’ first shot of the game, and David Luiz headed in a second 12 minutes from time.
City had been unbeaten in 21 games, since April’s defeat in the Manchester derby, and now sit a point behind Liverpool. Chelsea are third, eight points behind Liverpool. Re-live the action below:
↵Good morning and welcome to The Independent's live coverage of today's headline Premier League encounter between Chelsea and leaders Manchester City, brought to you from Stamford Bridge.
With the match due to kick-off at 5:30pm, there's plenty of time to follow the latest news ahead of the teams being released at 4:30pm, where will begin our full build-up towards the match.
But until then, take a read of Jack Pitt-Brooke's big match preview here:
Evening all.
What do we make of those two starting lineups then?
No centre-forwards in sight. Matching 4-3-3's with a false nine? This should be fun...
Contrasting midweek fortunes for these two. Manchester City continued their unbeaten season with an away win at Vicarage Road, but for Chelsea the 2-1 defeat to Wolves was particularly disappointing as they slip out of the title race.
Liverpool's win at Bournemouth earlier took them top, though Manchester City would reclaim that spot with even a draw.
Chelsea are, realistically, now jostling for position in the top four with Arsenal and Tottenham. It is a huge game, and interesting that both managers have opted to twist rather than stick with novel frontlines.
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