Mancity. Chelsea

Minute-by-minute report: who will come out on top when the two heavyweights meet for the second time in four days? Find out with Rob Smyth.

[Chelsea](https://www.theguardian.com/football/chelsea), Zakaria’s long-range shot hits Akanji in a babymaking area and loops over the bar for a corner. They haev a brilliant coach - it’s far too early to say whether he has the personality to cope with a job of this size – and maybe a dozen of very talented players aged 25 or under. This is worth keeping an eye on in the medium-term, absurd as it sounds. It must be so humiliating for good players to have to dot the Is and cross the Ts on a heavy defeat that was confirmed before half-time. “I doubt he’d do it for a crucial match, as he’d be slaughtered, but he must be thinking about it.” “1- If they wanted to draw more readers in making me an Everton fan makes no sense, they would be trying to whip up enthusiasm, not depression. Everything he did at Brighton suggests he is a top-class coach for clubs who want to build something longer term. 77 min “Might take issue with Potter being a brilliant coach,” says Simon Fuller. From the first angle it looked like he had sprayed it high to the left. 86 min Actually, I was talking nonsense: he just smashed it slightly to the left of centre. [Chelsea](https://www.theguardian.com/football/chelsea) at the Etihad. Riyad Mahrez scored two, with Julian Alvarez and Phil Foden getting the other goals.

Manchester City and Chelsea face off again, this time in the third round of the FA Cup. The two sides went head-to-head on Thursday night when Manchester ...

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Manchester City cruised to a 4-0 win at home to Chelsea in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday, enjoying their third successive win over Graham Potter's ...

The Championship (second-tier) side got off to a flying start thanks to first-half goals from Jaden Philogene and Sheyi Ojo. Bristol City and Swansea City will meet again in a replay after drawing 1-1. All managers need time and he's right [for Chelsea]," said Guardiola, who also praised his side for their performance. "Give him time. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story Riyad Mahrez whipped in a free kick to put City in front in the 23rd minute, having scored the only goal in the 1-0 victory at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League on Thursday and in the 2-0 success over Chelsea in the League Cup in November.

The more Chelsea struggle under Graham Potter, the more it resembles David Moyes' infamously bad stint at Manchester United.

This is the second this season in all competition that Chelsea failed to record a shot within the first 30 minutes of a game, the previous being on Oct. 11 for the Carabao Cup in Southampton ( Five of those matches have been against Manchester City -- the other three were Newcastle in 2022, Porto in 2021 and Liverpool in 2020. [John Stones](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/157974/John-Stones), [Ilkay Gundogan](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/131424/Ilkay-Gündogan) and Joao Cancelo were also left out of the starting line-up. It's a fantastic first goal in terms of a strike from a free-kick and then there was the strange penalty and it's then 2-0. Raheem had an action in the first minute of the game, a back heel that was a bit strange and felt something in his hamstring. I had results in Barcelona in the first season but we had Lionel Messi so one season was enough. [because of his connections to Russian president Vladimir Putin](/soccer/chelsea-engchelsea/story/4613373/chelsea-owner-roman-abramovich-added-to-uks-russian-sanctions-list) -- but the Chelsea fans haven't forgotten how he transformed the club into serial winners. I think the second half today is what he is and what he did in Brighton was outstanding. [Chelsea](/soccer/team?id=363). And Boehly, who has overseen a spending spree in excess of £300m since buying the club from Abramovich, is hearing his predecessor's name being sung by fans because they regard many of his decisions as making the team and club weaker. The third-round defeat means Chelsea's only hope of silverware this season is in the Champions League -- they face