Chelsea vs. Man City live score, updates, highlights and lineups from Premier League match

Manchester City will look to close the gap to Premier League leaders Arsenal when they face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

The Gunners’ 0-0 draw with Newcastle United means reigning champions City can move to within five points of the top if they can defeat the Blues on Thursday.

Graham Potter’s side were held to a 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest last time out and, given they are 10 points outside the top four (albeit with a game in hand), they can ill afford to drop any more points this early in 2023.

Chelsea vs. Man City live score

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Chelsea vs. Man City live updates, highlights

10 mins before KO: It’s looking a bit forlorn for Chelsea — those injuries, the fact they’ve only won one in six games in all competitions — but consider this: this could be their ninth win over a team managed by Pep Guardiola. That would set a new unwanted record for the City boss.

30 mins before KO: The loss of Mason Mount is a big one for Chelsea. He’s not missed a league game for Graham Potter all season, and his absence leaves the home side looking light in midfield. It remains to be seen whether they line up in a 4-2-3-1, with Denis Zakaria and Mateo Kovacic as holding players, or if they use a back three and deploy one of Christian Pulisic or Hakim Ziyech as a wing-back.

1 hr before KO: The team news is in! 

There’s a big blow for Chelsea who are without Mason Mount, the midfielder having suffered an injury in training. Denis Zakaria starts in midfield and Raheem Sterling is in the lineup against his old club, while Christian Pulisic is also in the side — it looks like Potter might be going for a 3-4-3.

Your Chelsea side tonight! 🔵@ParimatchGlobal | #CheMci pic.twitter.com/Wdxtkmz3Mo

— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) January 5, 2023

Kyle Walker, Joao Cancelo and Phil Foden all get their first starts for City since the World Cup, but there is still no Aymeric Laporte. Erling Haaland, of course, leads the line.

🔵 TEAM NEWS 🔵

XI | Ederson, Walker, Stones, Ake, Cancelo, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Gundogan (C), Bernardo, Haaland, Foden

SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Phillips, Grealish, Alvarez, Gomez, Akanji, Mahrez, Palmer, Lewis#ManCity | @HaysWorldwide pic.twitter.com/vmwAPKbODT

— Manchester City (@ManCity) January 5, 2023

1hr 15 mins before KO: Chelsea come into this game in 10th place in the table, 11 points behind Man City in second and 10 outside the top four. Former striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink believes his old side are “very far” from challenging the likes of the champions, but he insists they must go into this game looking to win. “You have to take this game as one and try to win the game, because you’re at the Bridge,” he said on Sky Sports in the UK. “At Chelsea, you win games here at the Bridge. As hard as it will be, that’s the mentality you need to have.”

In the building! 📌 #CheMci pic.twitter.com/WqLx4SwoZT

— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) January 5, 2023

1 hr 30 mins before KO: This is, of course, one of two meetings between Chelsea and Man City this week — they do it all again at the weekend in the FA Cup. Neither game is exactly easy to call, especially with City sometimes flattering to deceive this season and Chelsea struggling to really find their way under Potter.

With that in mind, take a look at our betting preview for the best tips ahead of tonight.

2 hrs before KO: Manchester City can close the gap to Premier League leaders Arsenal to five points with a win tonight. Standing in their way are Chelsea, desperate to find some consistency under head coach Graham Potter.

The Chelsea way. Togetherness. 👊 pic.twitter.com/cwi2vCOLVk

— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) January 2, 2023

Chelsea vs. Man City lineups

Chelsea produced another fitful display in the 1-1 draw against Nottingham Forest, with Potter again shuffling his pack in the face of an imposing injury list.

Raheem Sterling scored his fourth of the season and is likely to retain his starting place against his former club. Potter could opt to play Mason Mount in the front three and bolster his midfield with Mateo Kovacic and Conor Gallagher.

Predicted Chelsea XI (4-3-3): Kepa (GK) — Azpilicueta, Koulibaly, Silva, Cucurella — Kovacic, Jorginho, Gallagher — Sterling, Havertz, Mount

For City’s three games in the immediate post-World Cup period across the Carabao Cup and Premier League, Pep Guardiola opted for a relatively settled line-up. 

Joao Cancelo, Aymeric Laporte, Kyle Walker and Phil Foden are all yet to start a Premier League game since their exertions in Qatar and it might be time for them to feature as a packed schedule mounts up. 

Predicted Man City XI (4-3-3): Ederson (GK) — Walker, Stones, Laporte, Cancelo — De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan — Silva, Haaland, Foden

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What time is Chelsea vs. Man City kick off?

This Premier League clash will kick off at Stamford Bridge on Thursday, January 5 at 8:00 p.m. local time.

Here’s how that time translates across some of the major territories:

*Game starts on January 6 in these time zones

Chelsea vs. Man City live stream, TV channel

Here’s how to watch all of the action from this match in some of the major territories:

UK: Matches are carried across Sky Sports and BT Sport streaming and TV platforms, with Sky showing this heavyweight clash.

USA: The match will be streamed on NBC’s Peacock platform.

Canada: Every Premier League game this season is live streaming exclusively via fuboTV in Canada.

Australia: Fans in Australia can stream every match live and on demand on Optus Sport. 

India: Star Sports network has the rights to show Premier League matches in India. As well as an English broadcast on Star Sports Select, select matches will be available via regional feeds on Star Sports 3 (in Bengali, English, Kannada, Malayalam), Star Sports 1 (Bangla) and Star Sports 1 (Tamil).

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Chelsea vs. Man City betting odds, prediction

City won each of the past two encounters at Stamford Bridge, swaggering to a 3-1 triumph in January 2021 to hasten Frank Lampard’s demise before a deserved 1-0 victory in September that year to serve as a measure of revenge for Chelsea’s win by the same scoreline in the 2021 Champions League final.

The west Londoners will hope to pick at any remaining scars from that Porto reverse, especially with City not being at the top of their game. Potter was keen to point out that City goalkeeper Stefan Ortega was named player of the match when his side were beaten 2-0 in the Carabao Cup last month — a third consecutive victory and clean sheet in the fixture for Guardiola.

Prediction: City to win 2-0