Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: CHE, MCI battle for early lead in campaign opener

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: It is full-time as the referee blows his whistle! City win 2-0! WHAT A START FOR THEM! CHELSEA ARE DISAPPOINTED!

CHE 0-2 MCI, FT

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Five minutes of added time and City lead 2-0, thanks to goals from Kovacic, Haaland.

CHE 0-2 MCI, 90:00+5′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: WHAT A SHOT! KOVACIC RECEIVES THE BALL! SURGES AHEAD AND THEN LETS OUT A SCREAMER! GOES PAST SANCHEZ, HITS HIS FINGERS AND HITS THE POST AND GOES IN! GOALLL!

CHE 0-2 MCI, 83:49′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Doku puts in a through ball and Haaland can’t get to it! Chelsea build up and spray it to the right and then it goes Palmer, who passes it into the box. City clear the danger!

CHE 0-1 MCI, 76:31′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Substitution for Chelsea! Lavia and Jackson are out! In comes Guiu and Drewsburry-Hall!

CHE 0-1 MCI, 65:51′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Caicedo makes a mess of his shot and it goes to Enzo in the right. He puts in a low cross and Neto is there to tap it in but Lewis clears it away!

CHE 0-1 MCI, 58:50′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: City have the ball in the riht and a low cross goes in. Haaland is there but it gets cleared!

CHE 0-1 MCI, 56:14′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: City are spraying the ball around and building some tempo. Chelsea are sitting deep!

CHE 0-1 MCI, 50:14′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: The second-half begins as both Chelsea and Manchester City get back into action!

CHE 0-1 MCI

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Fifth minute of the added time in this first half as Chelsea spray the ball around, looking for an opening. But they are unable to find any and referee calls for half-time!

CHE 0-1 MCI, HT

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Lucky! Palmer takes a shot from outside the box! Ederson saves, but it goes to Jackson, goes in. HE IS OFFSIDE!

CHE 0-1 MCI, 44:36′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Three players are down at the moment as City miss a chance! De Bruyne is down, Caicedo clattered into him. Even Savio is down!

CHE 0-1 MCI, 38:17′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Palmer gets it on the left and crosses it in, but goes straight to Ederson, who grabs it! City counter and its on the left!

CHE 0-1 MCI, 28:00′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: City again attack from the left and the ball is laid off to Haaland inside the box, and he goes past Cucurella and slots it past the goalkeeper! 1-0!

CHE 0-1 MCI, 18:00′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Chelsea have been deal well with City’s threat and are sitting deep! City attack from the left but Chelsea clear it out!

CHE 0-0 MCI, 17:00′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: City haven’t generated anything concrete yet, but are keeping the ball Chelsea are sitting back and clearing away any danger.

CHE 0-0 MCI, 08:22′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: City are keeping the ball and spraying the ball around. Chelsea will need to soak in the pressure tonight and do their job in the counter!

CHE 0-0 MCI, 03:44′

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: City get the first-half underway as the action begins in their opener vs Chelsea.

CHE 0-0 MCI

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Both teams shake hands and do their pre-kick off formalities!

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Enzo leads out Chelsea and De Bruyne leads City as both teams walk out!

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Speaking on James’ injury, Maresca said, “It depends on the injury because sometimes, if it’s a kick, it’s not because training is no good, it’s an unlucky kick and you got injured. The only thing I can say, and I wasn’t here last year, is that in one month, we have had just one injury problem, which is Reece. Unfortunately, he got an injury two or three minutes before we were going to change him, otherwise we would have avoided it. That can happen.”

“Sometimes injuries can be because of different things, but we are managing the situation well. We managed players the other day against Inter, Christo didn’t start because he played so many minutes in pre-season and didn’t play many last year. Wesley didn’t play the game before, so he can then start,” he added.

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Chelsea are winless in their last six Premier League fixtures vs City (drawn 2 and lost 4), since a 2-1 away win in May 2021.

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: MCI – Ederson (GK), Dias, Akanji, Gvardiol, Lewis, Kovacic, Savio, Silva, De Bruyne, Doku, Haaland

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: CHE – Sanchez (GK), Gusto, Fofana, Colwill, Cucurella, Caicedo, Lavia, Palmer, Fernandez, Nkunku, Jackson

Chelsea vs Manchester City live score, Premier League 2024-25: Speaking ahead of the opener, Guardiola said, “Always at the beginning of the season, the first target is to finish in the top four. People say: ‘Oh, come on’, I say ‘no’. Newcastle are not in Europe, and are going to play one game a week. Newcastle with one game a week this season will be the Newcastle of two seasons ago. Arsenal are not necessary to talk about. Liverpool are not necessary to talk about. I know the signings of United, they are going to take the momentum and they will be there.”