Chelsea vs Man City LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction today

18 mins: Close! A clearance from Azpilicueta comes up to Romelu Lukaku. He holds up the ball before giving it to Alonso. Werner makes a run in behind the City centre-backs and Alonso finds him with a decent through ball. Werner carries the ball into the box, shimmies around Dias and squares it into the middle where Laporte just beats Lukaku to the ball and tips it away from the striker.

15 mins: Joao Cancelo tries something different with a sharp pass into the box as Kevin De Bruyne makes a run from deep. The Man City midfielder gets past the Chelsea back line, picks up the ball and cuts it back but the pass is behind Phil Foden and Chelsea deal with it. Better from City.

12 mins: The game has started in the we expected. Lots of possession for Man City. Solid defensive work form Chelsea. Very few chances created other than from a couple of Gabriel Jesus crosses.

Bit of a stalemate at the minute.

9 mins: A little bit of possession from Chelsea sees Jorginho knock a pass round the corner into Timo Werner. The striker flicks the ball past Ruben Dias and looks to turn the defender but Dias holds his gorund and ends up giving away a foul.

6 mins: Jesus has started strongly on the right side for Man City. He takes on Marcos Alonso and manages to get a low cross into the box. Andreas Christensen clears it but Walker regains possession quickly. He slots a pass into the right side of the box where Jesus collects the ball. He looks for another cross into the middle but is hit with a strong, sliding tackle from Antonio Rudiger.

3 mins: Man City have flown up the pitch to press Chelsea high. They’ve got five men in the final third and have twice forced the Blues to give the ball away.

Gabriel Jesus flicks a lovely ball into the box from the right side but Cesar Azpilicueta gets to it first and heads it behind for the first corner of the game.

Kick off: A huge early season fixture as the champions of Europe take on the champions of England. Phil Foden kicks off the match for Manchester City. They work the ball over to the right side of the defence and Kyle Walker fires one up the wing. Foden attempts to chase it down but the ball skips on after it bounces and goes out for a goalkick.

Here come the teams. This should be a game of high quality and tension. There may not be many goals and the first team to score will have a big advantage.

Man City are expected to dominate possession but will they convert that time on the ball into viable chances? They’ll know Chelsea are a big threat all over the pitch.

Kick off is next.

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