CARABAO CUP FINAL SUNDAY: We preview Sunday’s Carabao Cup Final between CHELSEA v MAN CITY with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended stats.
CHELSEA V MANCHESTER CITY
4.30pm It’s the first Cup Final of the season on Sunday afternoon as Chelsea take on Manchester City. Of course as we all know, we seen this fixture very recently with City running out the easy winners in a 6-0 thrashing. The venue is now neutral, but it’s hard to see Chelsea getting close to City here if they continue to play in the same fashion. A 2-0 loss at home to Manchester United in the FA Cup on Monday highlighted again the problems Chelsea face and Sarri could be on the way out if he loses this fixture.
City are odds on favourites with the match odds at the time of writing currently trading; Chelsea 5.9, Manchester City 1.61 and the draw is 4.6. City absolutely picked apart the Chelsea midfield when they met recently and surely Sarri will have to employ different tactics this time around. Whether or not he chooses to do so is debatable – he has proven quite stubborn in his time in the Premier League thus far!
It’s very hard to see past a City win here and the 1.61 looks worth backing. Guardiola has his side in top form and even when they were in trouble during the week in the Champions League, they still managed to pull out a win. That was very impressive, 2-1 down away from home and down to ten men – they still managed to win! City have a good recent record against Chelsea, and the 6-0 win will be fresh in the mind of those sides. We can see an easy City win here and Sarri losing his job next week.
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MATCH STATS
- Chelsea and Manchester City are set to face in a League Cup final for the first time – both sides have won the trophy five times previously, with only Liverpool winning it more often (eight times).
- This is the first League Cup meeting between Chelsea and Manchester City since the third round in 1993-94, when Brian Horton’s City side won 1-0 at Maine Road with a goal from David White.
- Excluding Community Shield matches, Chelsea and Manchester City have only met in the final of a competition on one previous occasion – the 1985-86 Full Members Cup final at Wembley, a 5-4 victory for Chelsea, which remains the highest scoring final in Wembley history.
- Manchester City, 2018 winners of the League Cup against Arsenal, are looking to become only the fourth team to retain the trophy in consecutive years, after Man Utd (2009 and 2010), Liverpool (four years between 1981 and 1984) and Nottingham Forest (1978 and 1979 & 1989 and 1990).
- Chelsea have already lost three times at Wembley this season, losing in the Community Shield against Manchester City and in the Premier League and League Cup semi-final against Spurs.
- Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus has scored more goals than any other player in this season’s League Cup (5) – but all five have come against League One sides (one v Oxford, four v Burton). Jesus has never scored a League Cup goal against Premier League opposition (5 games, 0 goals).
- Should one, or more, of Manchester City trio David Silva, Vincent Kompany and Sergio Aguero score, they could become the first players to score in back-to-back League Cup finals since Didier Drogba did so for Chelsea in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
- Since the start of the 2012-13 season, no player has been involved in more League Cup goals for a Premier League side than Chelsea’s Eden Hazard (14 – 8 goals, 6 assists).
- Sergio Aguero has scored 13 goals in 16 appearances in all competitions against Chelsea for Manchester City, only scoring more often against Newcastle United for the Citizens (15).
- Only three players have scored more goals for a top-flight club against an opponent at Wembley than Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has against Chelsea (3) – Harry Kane against Southampton and Eric Cantona against Liverpool (4 goals) and Ian Rush against Everton (5 goals).
- Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri could become the second Italian to win the League Cup, after Gianluca Vialli who won the trophy with the Blues in 1998.
- No team has had more scorers in this season’s League Cup than Manchester City (8, level with Norwich City and West Ham).
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