Chelsea vs Manchester City Match Preview

European Champions and Premier League leaders Chelsea face English champions Manchester City at Stamford Bridge, in the most expected game of the 6th round in the English Premier League.

Chelsea, after winning the Champions League and the UEFA Super Cup, wants to win the Premier League title this year as well. Their start is impressive and extremely successful. Their only point losses are coming from the 1-1 draw against strong Liverpool at Anfield, and the Blues are deservedly alone on the top of the standings.

Manchester City seems to be having a hard time at the beginning of the season. In their opening game, they suffered an away defeat to Tottenham, while in their most recent match they played a bore draw at home with Southampton. In between, City won 3 times, 2 of them with the wide 5-0. On their good day, they can humiliate any defense, but if they do not score early, Guardiola's team gets trapped and does not easily find the way to the opponents' net.

The last time these two sides met was in the UEFA Champions League 2021 final with Chelsea prevailing 1-0 in a match , even they had started as underdogs.

In their last 5 h2h matches for the Premier League, we had only over 2.5 goals, while it is impressive that a draw has not shown up for almost 7 years (12 consecutive matches), with the victories being almost shared (7 for City and 5 for Chelsea)

My choice in this great match will be the over 2.5 goals pick, which is offered at decent odds. Both teams have a very good offensive record and it will be very difficult for them not to score, after all, in the last 4 league matches between them, they both scored at least once.

I'll keep my stake low here, as we are talking about a derby, but the odds of over 2.5 goals have definitely big value and I think it is worth betting on this outcome.