Manchester City defeats Chelsea and is approaching early decisiveness

Manchester City continued to move towards an early title by beating champions Chelsea 1-0 on Sunday in the 29th round of the Premier League.

Bernardo Silva scored the only goal in the 46th minute, taking Manchester City the lead to 78 points in the lead, 19 points behind Manchester United, who meet Monday night with Crystal Palace at the end of the stage, while Chelsea, freezing the score at 53 points Fifth place, and is moving away from fourth-placed Tottenham by 5 points.

Manchester City's Pep Guardiola made two changes to their starting lineup. Oleksandr Zenchenko, Emeric Laporte, Dante and Vincent Kompany, while Brazilian Fernandinho continued to be injured, took his place at the center of German international midfielder Elkay Gundogan.



On the other hand, the Chelsea squad was named after French midfielder Nigolo Canti. Danny Drencotter and Cesc Fabregas were in the midfield. Antonio Conte took on Eden Hazard as the spearhead, while Alvaro Morata and Olivier Giro sat on the bench.

first half

The first real threat came from Manchester City, when Fabregas lost the ball for Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero, before paying for Chelsea in the 13th minute. Bernardo Silva tried his luck with a shot from the Chelsea side in the 20th minute.



City continued to dominate the game, and German Leroy Sani almost scored a goal in the 27th minute, when he met a free kick by Belgian Kevin de Bruin to launch towards the goal past goalkeeper Tibo Cortua before being taken away by Chelsea defender Cesar Azbilekwita from the line and once again passed a shot from Bernardo Silva away from the goal in the 33rd minute, and Azbiliquita stopped in the face of a shot by David Silva.

Second half

Only one minute into the second half, City opened the scoring through Bernardo Silva, who had a shot from David Silva, ahead of Chelsea's Marcus Alonso, to put the ball into the net.

Chelsea waited until the 53rd minute to threaten City for the first time when Fabregas passed the ball to right-back Victor Moses, who shot in the net.

Kurtwa hit a powerful shot from David Silva in the 56th minute, and the Spanish international returned to receive a ball from Aguero before defender Andreas Christensen prevented him from scoring, and a long-range shot from De Bruyn went into the stands in the 66th minute.

The situation did not change under the absolute dominance of Citi, in exchange for Chelsea's delay in making the substitutions, Giro entered the place of Willian and Emerson Palmeri place of Pedro Rodriguez, without the two players could change the way the team played in the last ten minutes.