Chelsea vs Manchester City 4-4: Premier League match – as it happened
All the updates from a thrilling Premier League clash between Chelsea and Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.
This blog is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates from the Chelsea vs Manchester City Premier League football match on Sunday, November 12:
This blog is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates from the Chelsea vs Manchester City Premier League football match on Sunday, November 12:
- Chelsea hold Manchester City to a thrilling 4-4 draw at London’s Stamford Bridge, with Cole Palmer scoring an equalising penalty for the home side deep into stoppage time.
- Defending champions City are top of the league by one point after 12 games.
- Chelsea remain 10th after a mixed start under new boss Mauricio Pochettino.
- City were without defender John Stones following his injury in the UEFA Champions League.
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Goodbye from the live blog
A final thought on the match from Rodri before we go.
“I think it wasn’t our best performance,” the City midfielder said.
“Individually, we need to look at ourselves because it’s not like us to concede four.
“We have to look at our mistakes.
“They had quick transitions and are faster and stronger.
“We have a different type of game and like to move the ball more and we struggled.
“We should not have lost all the balls we lost, been more patient and had more of the possession.
“We are a team and we support each other and move forward.”
So Arsenal and Liverpool close the gap on City over the weekend as the Premier League heads to the international break.
Guardiola’s side are now just a single point clear of the top.
Chelsea remain planted in tenth but Pochettino’s side have put in two big performances in the space of six days.
That’s a big statement from the Blues to put behind them some of the early-season disappointment.
That’s it from the live blog.
We’ve witnessed another Premier League classic so hope you enjoyed our coverage.
See you again soon for more live-match action from Al Jazeera Sport.
Goodbye.
Sterling and Palmer reflect on facing their old club
Cole Palmer and Raheem Sterling were both on the score sheet for Chelsea against their former club.
For Palmer, it was an injury-time winner from the penalty spot.
“It was very strange,” he said. “The first time I have played against City since I left, but I have the utmost respect for the club that I spent 15 years at.
“It was nice to see some friends. It was amazing and I was excited before the game and I wanted to show what we can do.
“We were unlucky not to get the win, but it was another great game.”
Sterling scored Chelsea’s second in the first half and was instrumental throughout for the Blues.
“It was a good game,” he said. “Obviously, we wanted to win the game and continue from the win at Tottenham earlier in the week. That’s exactly how we went out there.
“We fought, we went behind and we kept coming back and that showed our mentality.
“I scored, and scoring is a good feeling, but you know it’s your old club so you try not to overdo it.
“Since the manager has come here we have been trying to build slowly and surely.
“There’s been some setbacks, but we’ve continued to work even after some disappointing results and we are making those steps [forward] little by little.”
Have we just witnessed another Premier League classic?
The first half alone was a joy to behold.
It was end-to-end and with chances aplenty.
It was 2-2 at the break and could easily have been far more.
Haaland’s penalty appeared to ignite the second half within 90 seconds of the restart, but it was a tighter affair that followed.
Tight as it may have been, the tension and the quality remained.
Rodri looked to have won it with the clock ticking down in normal time after Jackson stabbed home Chelsea’s third.
But then another penalty.
Ruben Dias will reject his slide. In wet conditions, as they were in London, you have to be sure when you go to ground.
For the injury-time equaliser to be netted by a player in Manchester, who grew up supporting City, was almost the most poetic and fitting finale for a game that will rank among the Premier League’s finest.
Pochettino is fuming
Chelsea were just about to counter when the whistle was blown and the Blues boss is seeing red.
Gusto had the ball and was just about to cross the halfway line on the counter with a potential overload in the offing, but the referee had seen enough.
Everyone other than those associated with City are pretty disappointed that transition in play wasn’t allowed to be played out.
Full-time
Wow!
What a game we have just seen at Stamford Bridge.
Time to digest in a moment, but the whistle has been blown and the points are shared.
Full-time: Chelsea 4-4 Manchester City
Walker spurns the last chance – surely
The City captain has a free kick from 25 yards, but it sails over the bar.
Time is up. but there’s more to be added for the penalty.
98 minutes: Chelsea 4-4 Manchester City
Can we please have another 30 minutes?
Yellow cards were shown to Jackson and Grealish in the melee before the penalty.
Jackson is immediately withdrawn and Ugochukwu comes on.
Tackles have flown in since the restart.
97 minutes: Chelsea 4-4 Manchester City
Goal!
Palmer, a City fan as a boy, levels from the spot – powered past the outstretched hand of Ederson.
It was Ruben Dias with the clumsy challenge on the slide to give away the spot kick.
There was a huge coming together to delay the kick, but no mistake made.
95 minutes: Chelsea 4-4 Manchester City
Penalty!
Broja’s first touch is to control the ball with his right knee in the area.
Before he has a change to take a second, his leg is whipped from under him and Chelsea have a penalty.
92 minutes: Chelsea 3-4 Manchester City
Eight minutes of stoppage time
That’s enough for one more chance, but who will it fall to?
90 minutes: Chelsea 3-4 Manchester City
Chelsea throw caution to the wind
Caicedo is taken off and Chelsea will go with two strikers as Broja, on his return from injury, is sent up with Jackson.
88 minutes: Chelsea 3-4 Manchester City
Goal!
Has Rodri won it?
He drives the ball in via a huge deflection off Thiago Silva.
It completely wrong-foots the keeper and nestles into the opposite corner to where it was intended.
Well, that wasn’t the big chance we expected.
Can Chelsea forge something themselves in what time remains?
86 minutes: Chelsea 3-4 Manchester City
The first offside of the match – in the 84th minute
That has to be some sort of record?
We have another lull in the match – you may have noticed with that stat.
This game will come again before it’s over, but which way will it go?
There’s at least one more big chance for one of these sides to come.
84 minutes: Chelsea 3-3 Manchester City
Guardiola looks for more strength in midfield
City make their second change.
Alvarez was full of energy – and plenty of final product – but his game is done as Guardiola opts for a more defensively minded option in former Chelsea midfielder Kovacic.
80 minutes: Chelsea 3-3 Manchester City
Chelsea find further hope in the face of City possession
It’s all City now, but Chelsea will be a threat on the counter.
Jackson nearly gets away after the Blues finally shut the door on another City passing move.
Had the Senegalese player knocked the ball clear of the last defender, then he was clean through with a runner to his right.
This will be Chelsea’s big hope from not to full time.
City can’t clear, and Sterling releases the ball to the inside right and Gusto.
The sub opens his body to curl the ball, but can’t keep the shot down from just inside the area.
76 minutes: Chelsea 3-3 Manchester City
City purring at Stamford Bridge
Chelsea may have drawn level, but City are purring now.
Defending a Chelsea attack, the defending Premier League champions pass the ball out – including going back first to Ederson – and find their way all the way to the Chelsea box.
A last-minute interception prevents the ball from sliding across the box as we saw for City’s third.
Brilliant football, and it sums up the second-half performance to this stage.
72 minutes: Chelsea 3-3 Manchester City
Goal!
Gallagher’s long-range drive is pushed back into a central position by Ederson, and Jackson is the first to react to tap in the rebound.
Poor from the City keeper.
How Chelsea needed that.
67 minutes: Chelsea 3-3 Manchester City
Double change for Chelsea
Two changes for Chelsea as Pochettino needs to respond to the City start to the second half.
Fernandez comes on for Mudryk, while James is replaced by Gusto.
Both have had quiet afternoons in an otherwise busy match.
A brief day with it for Ederson to recieve some treatment, but he seems fine.
65 minutes: Chelsea 2-3 Manchester City
Palmer finds a chance for Chelsea
Palmer bundles through three City defenders but is falling as he reaches the area and can only stab a soft effort that Ederson saves.
It was a simple surge really and Guardiola will wonder why no defender put a foot in.
61 minutes: Chelsea 2-3 Manchester City
City sustain their start to the second half
City are by far the brighter in the second period and the space continues to open up.
Doku bursts down the left on the counter and cuts inside, but can’t get the power or direction he needs on the shot and Sánchez makes the save with his feet.
The run wasn’t enough to keep him on the pitch as he’s immediately subbed for Grealish.
59 minutes: Chelsea 2-3 Manchester City
City go close again
Alvarez nearly turns from provider to goal-scorer.
A relative lull, following Haaland’s goal, is eventually sparked by a deflected cross looping to the City forward, who swings a volley from a central position just inside the area.
It’s close enough to Sanchez for a comfortable save in the end, but that could easily have flown into either corner from there.
52 minutes: Chelsea 2-3 Manchester City
Second half under way with a goal!
No changes at half-time and no great surprise after a great first half.
But then City lead within 90 seconds of the restart.
Haaland holds up the ball on the halfway line before Foden releases Alvarez on the right.
He slides it across the six-yard box and Haaland bundles in his second at the back post.
There is a VAR check for handball but it looks fine.
47 minutes: Chelsea 2-3 Manchester City
Half-time
If the second half is half as good as the first, then we will have watched a Premier League classic at Stamford Bridge.
You couldn’t take your eyes off that 45 minutes for even a split second.
There will be debate about what led to Haaland’s penalty.
Two potential infringements had to be looked at by VAR, but the referee wasn’t asked to review either incident.
The football before it was breathless – the action that followed was breathtaking.
So many moments, so many chances and so much to look forward to in the second half.
Half-time: Chelsea 2-2 Manchester City
Goal!
Can you believe this?
City are level!
A corner from the left is taken short to the edge of the box.
Silva lifts the ball to the near post and Akanji heads home with a towering header.
Who was marking him, though?
The goal came in the first minute of six to be added on in the first half.
45+1 minutes: Chelsea 2-2 Manchester City
What a save from Sanchez
Sterling looks for his second before a great chance for the Blues.
Similar to Foden’s effort just before the second Chelsea goal, Sterling opens his body to try to curl inside the far post.
City break quickly in reply and Haaland finds space in a central position in the box. But his left-footed shot is saved low to his left by Sanchez.
It took an extremely strong left hand to keep that out – let alone the reach.
Brilliant save and a big miss from Haaland.
43 minutes: Chelsea 2-1 Manchester City