Chelsea v Manchester City Premier League – live!

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Updates from the 4.30pm GMT kick-off at Stamford Bridge
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Jonathan Wilson: Guardiola fine-tunes balance of press and defence
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4.07pm GMT
Pre-match reading
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3.38pm GMT
Ederson is out with Covid-19, so the American goalkeeper Zack Steffen will make his Premier League debut for Manchester City. Nathan Ake, Ferran Torres, Aymeric Laporte, Eric Garcia, Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Tommy Doyle are also missing from the squad. Ake and Laporte are injured; the rest have tested positive for Covid.
The superb Hakim Ziyech returns to the Chelsea team, and Timo Werner gets a start at centre-forward. Olivier Giroud, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Jorginho and Andreas Christensen, who started the 1-1 draw against Villa last year, are left out. Continue reading...

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