Chelsea-Manchester City, for the Premier League: with Julián Álvarez on the bench, Guardiola’s men try to get closer to the top

The Premier League, one of the most impressive football leagues in the world, is going through the middle of the tournament and starting to enter the deciding stage. Now with the players available in the clubs, after the stop due to the World Cup held in Qatar, the Chelsea Y Manchester City They battle it out to end date 19 of the English league.

The London team coached by the Englishman Graham Potter receives Pep Guardiola’s City at Stamford Bridge stadium for the Premier League. The match is televised by ESPN and the match referee is Paul Tierney.

Potter’s team, which sits tenth in the overall standings, needs to bring home the three points to begin closing the gap with the top-placed teams. All of London is 10 points behind the team that is second in general, that is the team that will face this afternoon.

But, despite trying to climb the ladder to fight for the title in the tournament group, he needs to add to reach the qualifying positions for international cups. For now, three units separate him from the positions that allow entry into the Europa League.

The news of the team leaves some questions to analyze and try to solve quickly to achieve the objectives. Of the last 10 Premier League games, the London team lost 4, drew 3 Y only won 3. The last meeting was a 1-1 draw against Nottingham Forest away.

Totally different, however, the panorama of the rival team. The group that trains the Spanish Pep Guardiola He is chasing the lead closely as he is in second position with a total of 36 points, but, in turn, are away from leaders Arsenal who are 8 points ahead with a sum of 44 units. The Manchester team have to make discounts in this match as the next match will be the English classic against Manchester United.

City started from the start with the relentless Norwegian scorer Erling Haaland, who dominates the championship scorer table with a total of 21 goals. Also, the striker will be on the bench Giuliano Alvarezwho has already added minutes after his outstanding performance in the World Cup that crowned the Argentina national team.

The local forms with: Kepa Arrizabalaga; Azpilicueta, Koulibaly, Thiago Silva, Cucurella; Zacaria, Mateo Kovacic; Ziyech, Pulisic, Raheem Sterling; Havertz

City’s starting eleven: Ederson; Kyle Walker, John Stones, Nathan Aké, Joao Cancelo; De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan; Bernardo Silva, Erling Haaland and Phil Foden.

The last meeting between them was about two months ago and it was victory 2-0 for the citizen for the EFL Cup. The goals were scored by Riyad Mahrez and Julián Álvarez.

The two sides will meet again in a match on Sunday but, unlike this time, it will be for the third round of the FA Cup.