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:
Out of the tunnel emerge the two sets of players.
Kick off is imminent.
David Silva is in the centre circle, plays the ball back to his centre backs and Chelsea vs Manchester City has begun.
1 minute
Antonio Rudiger is nearly in some early bother pursued by Raheem Sterling, but manages to find Kepa Arrizabalaga.
Eden Hazard as the false nine for Chelsea, Sterling for City.
3 minutes
Pressing early on from Chelsea, forcing Manchester City to play the ball around in their own box, but the visitors do that competently, allowing Aymeric Laporte to stride away in comfort with the shackles of the press broken.
Early possession all with City.
5 minutes
Antonio Rudiger's long ball is won by Eden Hazard, an unconventional target man, but there is no-one moving into the space Hazard vacated to compete with Fernandinho.
7 minutes
A shimmy from Eden Hazard beats Bernardo Silva and draws Fabian Delph into a challenge.
The Belgian tumbles over Delph's outstretched leg. A free kick 25 yards out, wide on the right...
Aymeric Laporte rises under little pressure and heads it away.
8 minutes
Chance!
It is a superb challenge from Fernandinho to free Manchester City on the counter attack.
Raheem Sterling finds David Silva overlapping, and the Spaniard returns it to Sterling on the bounce. He should really do better with his six-yard half-volley, which is underpowered and gathered simply by Kepa Arrizabalaga.
10 minutes
City well on top. Sterling squanders another chance with a weak pass with two men outside him.
Bernardo Silva's cross is then cleared but Aymeric Laporte nearly latches on to David Silva's header back into the mixer. Kepa is again there to smother, but Chelsea look vulnerable.
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