On Sunday evening, intriguing 26th round matches will take place in the English Premier League. The teams of "Manchester City" and London's "Chelsea" will clash at the "Etihad" stadium.
These are very important matches for both clubs - in case of victory, the "City" team would equal points with "Liverpool" again, and "Chelsea" would lose the fourth position, which was taken by "Manchester United" yesterday.
The match will start at 6 pm.
The teams of "Man City" and "Chelsea" will meet for the third time this season. The first clash took place in August for the "Community Shield" trophy - it was won by "City" with a score of 2:0. However, a few months later, "Chelsea" players achieved a victory at their stadium with the same result.
In the Premier League, "Man City" has experienced 25 losses against "Chelsea" - more than against any other opponent.
"Chelsea" is the only team in the Premier League that has defeated Pep Guardiola's "Man City" twice in a season.
This season, "Man City" is the best team playing at their home stadium - 12 wins in 13 matches.
The "City" team scored 27 goals in the last five matches at the "Etihad" stadium.
This season, Manchester's team has already lost 16 points - two more than in the entire previous season when they became champions.
"Man City" team suffered three out of four losses in this season when the first goal was conceded.
Sergio Aguero has scored 22 goals in the last 15 home matches. Playing in the starting lineup, the Argentine stood out in all of the last matches.
"Chelsea" has not scored a single goal in the last two away matches. The last time the "Blues" had a three-game goal drought was in the 2001-02 season.
The last goal away was scored by "Chelsea" on December 30th, when N'Golo Kante scored the winning goal in the match against "Crystal Palace." Without conceding a goal, the opponents' stadium "aristocrats" have already gone 309 minutes.
"Chelsea" lost four matches out of the last six in which they played against the teams from the top six.
