Reigning champions Man Metropolis can be hoping to get their 2024-25 Premier League season off to a successful begin in London. Try the perfect details, stats and Opta information from Sunday’s sport at Stamford Bridge with our Chelsea vs Manchester Metropolis stats web page.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all of the Chelsea vs Manchester Metropolis stats from their Premier League conflict at Stamford Bridge.
The match centre beneath consists of crew and participant stats, anticipated targets information, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and extra. It offers you every thing you could do your individual match evaluation.
Beneath the match centre you could find the official Opta stats on the sport as effectively.
Chelsea vs Manchester Metropolis: Pre-Match Information
- Chelsea are winless of their final six Premier League conferences with Manchester Metropolis (D2 L4), since a 2-1 away win in Could 2021.
- Since dropping the UEFA Champions League last in Could 2021, Manchester Metropolis are unbeaten of their final 9 conferences with Chelsea in all competitions (W7 D2) – it’s their joint longest run with out defeat in opposition to the Blues of their historical past (additionally 9 between 1936 and 1949).
- No crew has earned extra factors from their opening matches of the Premier League season than Chelsea (67), with solely Manchester United choosing up extra wins (21) than the Blues (20).
- That is the primary time Chelsea have begun a top-flight marketing campaign with a match in opposition to the reigning champions since 1971-72, once they misplaced 3-0 in opposition to Arsenal at Highbury.
- Manchester Metropolis have gained their opening Premier League match in 12 of the final 13 seasons, with the exception being a 1-0 loss at Tottenham in 2021-22 beneath Pep Guardiola.
- Chelsea misplaced simply one among their final 15 Premier League video games in 2023-24 (W9 D5), successful every of the final 5 in a row. They final had an extended successful run between September and November 2019 beneath Frank Lampard (6).
- Manchester Metropolis have gained every of their final 9 Premier League matches by two or extra targets, the longest such run within the competitors’s historical past, with their last three wins of 2023-24 all coming in opposition to London golf equipment (4-0 vs Fulham, 2-0 vs Tottenham, 3-1 vs West Ham).
- Enzo Maresca would be the fourth supervisor whose first Premier League sport in command of Chelsea has come in opposition to the reigning champions, after Claudio Ranieri in September 2000 (3-3 v Manchester United), Avram Grant in September 2007 (0-2 v Manchester United) and Rafael Benítez in November 2012 (0-0 v Manchester Metropolis).
- Chelsea’s Cole Palmer registered extra aim involvements than every other participant within the Premier League final season (33 – 22 targets, 11 assists). He was additionally the competitors’s prime scorer in dwelling video games final time period, together with his 16 targets the joint-most a participant has netted at Stamford Bridge in a single Premier League marketing campaign (Didier Drogba 2006-07 and Frank Lampard 2009-10).
- Man Metropolis striker Erling Haaland has scored 63 targets in 66 Premier League video games, successful the Golden Boot in each of his campaigns with the Residents to this point. He’s additionally scored a brace in each of his appearances on the opening weekend (vs West Ham in 2022-23 and Burnley final season), with no participant ever doing so in three completely different seasons.
- Having scored dwelling and away in opposition to Man Metropolis final season, Raheem Sterling may grow to be the primary participant to attain in three successive Premier League appearances in opposition to the Residents having beforehand performed for them within the competitors.
- Kevin De Bruyne has scored extra Premier League targets in opposition to Chelsea (5) than every other participant to have beforehand performed for the Blues within the competitors.
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