Manchester City have won six of their last eight Premier League home games against Chelsea (L2), keeping a clean sheet in five of those victories. They will hope to continue with the fine run, live on SuperSport this Saturday at 7:30pm CAT.
- Chelsea have kept just one clean sheet in their last 19 Premier League meetings with Manchester City, with that coming via a 2-0 home win in December 2018 under Maurizio Sarri.
- Manchester City and Chelsea played out a 4-4 draw in the reverse fixture at Stamford Bridge – the most goals scored between these sides in a single Premier League campaign is nine in 2009-10, with the Citizens winning 2-1 (h) and 4-2 (a) that season.
- The 4-4 draw between Man City and Chelsea in the reverse fixture ended a run of 16 Premier League games without a draw between the sides. The last time both meetings ended level in a season was in 2014-15.
- Manchester City have won their last six Premier League matches, having only won one of their previous six games (D4 L1). Four of those wins have come in 2024 – the only time they’ve won their first five Premier League games in a calendar year was in 2021 (won first 13 games).
- Manchester City haven’t lost any of their last 22 home Premier League matches (W18 D4), with only Liverpool on a longer unbeaten run at home (24). City are also on the longest scoring run on home soil in the competition, scoring in their last 44 games at the Etihad and netting 135 goals in these games.
- Should Chelsea score two goals in this game, it would be the first time a side managed by Pep Guardiola has conceded six league goals in a season against a single opponent; the previous most is currently five goals (eight different instances).
- Both Raheem Sterling and Cole Palmer scored for Chelsea against former club Manchester City in the reverse fixture in November – no player to have previously played for the Citizens in the Premier League has scored home and away against them in the same campaign in the competition before.
- Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino has lost more matches against Pep Guardiola (13) than he has against any other manager in all competitions. His four wins against him have been with three different clubs (Espanyol, Spurs x2 and PSG); the only manager to beat Guardiola with four different clubs is Jose Mourinho (Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Man Utd and Spurs).
- Kevin De Bruyne has assisted a goal in all four of Manchester City’s league games in 2024, despite only starting two of them. The Belgian could become the 11th different player to assist a goal in 5+ successive Premier League appearances and the first to do so for the Citizens. De Bruyne also has 66 Premier League assists at the Etihad Stadium; only Ryan Giggs (84 at Old Trafford) has more at a single venue in the competition.