Manchester City vs Chelsea FC LIVE! Carabao Cup

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Graham Potter takes his Blues team to the Etihad Stadium tonight for a third-round blockbuster in the Carabao Cup. After back-to-back defeats, Chelsea face a chunky task to turn the tide and improve club morale before the World Cup break.

In their way, a Man City team which won this cup four times in a row until Liverpool nabbed it back last season. Pep Guardiola has enjoyed the Carabao Cup greatly since arriving in England and he has named a strong line-up tonight amid a busy spell of games, including Erling Haaland on the bench.

Chelsea have made changes of their own as they look to go deep in the competition again, having last lifted the trophy in 2014. There is no VAR for tonight’s game and a draw will send the game straight to penalties. You can also follow all the City vs Chelsea updates in Standard Sport’s live blog!

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68 mins: Ziyech, whose played rather well, comes off for Sterling. A fine reception from the City fans.

Chalobah, Broja and Zakaria also come off for Azpilicueta, Mount and Gallagher.

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67 mins: Grealish goes on a trademark mazey run before driving a shot into a flying Chelsea block.

Potter is turning into his bench…

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63 mins: Ziyech produces a simply delightful piece of skill to beat Gomez and finds Hall in the box.

The teenager’s shot is well hit and towards the corner… only for Ortega to protect his clean sheet with a marvelous save!

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61 mins: There is a sense that City will go for the jugular here.

Palmer arrives in the box to test Mendy again and the hosts’ high press is still in full flow. They’ve never been a team to pass up a big scoreline.

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Chelsea hadn’t done a lot wrong until the wall failed to jump for Riyad Mahrez’s free-kick goal.

Now they are 2-0 down after lazy defending to not get back in after a very simple Manchester City goal which was turned in by Julian Alvarez.

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57 mins: A TAP-IN FOR TWO!

Chelsea had looked decent since the goal and yet got caught on the counter.

Alvarez flings a long ball wide to Mahrez, whose perfect control sets up his shot. Mendy tips it straight at Alvarez, following up.

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55 mins: Watching the replays of that free-kick, Mendy is left on his heels but he had trusted his wall.

The ball flew right over Kolibaly, who didn’t even jump. Criminal.

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53 mins: From the free-kick, Mahrez buries his effort past Mendy!

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52 mins: Chalobah booked for chopping Mahrez in the D.

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51 mins: Grealish cuts inside to aim a curler towards the far post but he just doesn’t get enoug on it and Mendy parries…

In comes the corner and it’s those two again! Grealish cuts a deflected shot goalwards and Mendy has to get down low to palm it away.

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