The Chelsea Blues and Manchester City are playing live on the English Premier League schedule on Saturday and the marquee matchup from Stamford Bridge starts at 12:30 pm ET and has Chelsea looking to stay on top of the EPL table and the game is on TV from NBC and streaming on the NBC Sports Live Extra website from NBCSN for Jose Mourinho's side.
Chelsea forward Diego Costa will be out for this match after getting into it against Liverpool and now he will have to deal with a ban, but Chelsea has the players to make up for it. That was in the League Cup match with Liverpool and the team also dealt with Cesc Fabregas, Branislav Ivanovic and Filipe Luis getting injured. Ivanovic will play in this game, but the others are expected to be out.
Manchester City also will be down some players, as the two stars in Yaya Toure and Wilfried Bony will be out while dealing with the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. Toure is a big loss for City, but they are not looking at it as an issue, as both players will be back soon.
Chelsea comes in leading Man City by five points on the English Premier League table and both teams are clear of Southampton and Manchester United in the top four. Chelsea has been the top team on the English Premier League table all season and now they have the chance to get some points against the team directly behind them. Manchester City was able to tie with Chelsea for a moment, but that broke fast and now Chelsea remains on top alone with just two losses and a league leading 16 wins.
Chelsea is the tops coring team in the league over Manchester City and Chelsea comes in slowing down just a bit and they want to get things going into February. The team has Champions League play coming up and they will need Costa to get things back on track once he comes back. The team won over Liverpool in the League Cup, but that match took away Costa and they have the chance now to beat the team chasing them.
Man City comes in having taken five points from the last four league games and they need to do better than that if they want to Catch Chelsea. The win here would give Chelsea an eight point lead heading into the next month and that would be big for the team. The team's match up with Man City looking to win just their third match at Stamford Bridge since back in 2010. Chelsea has played very well at home and they are averaging over two goals per game at the stadium.
Chelsea comes in leading Man City in points and this is the top game on the schedule and gets late billing and will be online from the NBCSN Live Extra from Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
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