The two teams failed to decide between themselves on Sunday after a spectacular match (4-4) at Stamford Bridge.
A match that was only a draw. Chelsea and Manchester City separated with a score of 4-4, Sunday November 12 during the 12th day of the Premier League. With eight goals scored, including the last of the equalizer in the 95th minute by the young Cole Palmer, who left the Cityzens for the Blues this summer, this match took its place in the history books of the Premier League. Here are four figures to remember from this crazy draw which resulted in two winners, Liverpool and Arsenal, coming to within one point of the Mancunian leader.
1977
46 years. We had to wait almost half a century to see eight goals scored in a championship match between Manchester City and Chelsea. On November 26, 1977, the Cityzens corrected the Blues with a score of 6-2, 15 years before the creation of the Premier League. At the time, the scorers were called Ray Wilkins or Dennis Tueart, and had ignited Maine Road, the ancestor of the Etihad Stadium until 2003.
To find traces of the last duel between these two teams with three goals scored on each side, we have to go back to November 1960 (6-3 for Chelsea). Finally, to find the last championship match for all teams to have produced eight goals, no need to go back that far since it dates from… this season. On September 24, Newcastle crushed Sheffield 8-0 with eight different scorers.
36
With four goals for Manchester City, it seemed difficult to imagine Erling Haaland not participating in the party. The Norwegian opened the scoring with a penalty, before scoring a somewhat lucky double after the break. Since his professional debut in 2020, this is the 36th time he has scored at least two goals in a league match. No one does better over the same period, neither Robert Lewandowski (30 times), nor Kylian Mbappé (29 times).
The Scandinavian cyborg logically sits at the top of the scorers’ rankings this season, with 13 goals in 12 matches, a ratio of 1.08 goals per game. If he maintains this pace over 38 days, he will beat his own record for goals scored in a season, which he set at 35 last year in his first season with City.
882
Pep Guardiola has gone through all the emotions in his coaching career which began in 2007 and which includes 36 titles. But in 882 games as coach, he had never seen his team score and concede four goals in a single match.
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A rollercoaster of emotions for the Spaniard, who came back once to score, before conceding the equalizer three times in a row, including that of Cole Palmer on a penalty in the 95th minute after a gross foul by Ruben Dias on Armando Borja. This is also the first time since an Arsenal-Liverpool in 2009 (also 4-4) that a Premier League match has seen four equalizing goals in a single match.
39
Three big names from the Premier League and… Thiago Silva. By opening the score in this thriller, the Brazilian became only the fourth day in the history of the English championship to score over 39.
He joins Teddy Sheringham, a notable player for Tottenham and Manchester United in the 1990s, Dean Windass, a great Bradford player at the turn of the century, and Red Devils legend Ryan Giggs. Since arriving in London in 2020, Thiago Silva has scored at least one goal in three of the four seasons he has played.