football | Friday, May 19, 2023 1:03 PM

Manchester City vs Chelsea Bet Builder Tips: 3.75 Builder for Sunday’s Potential Title Clincher

James Cantrill

Manchester City vs Chelsea Bet Builder Tips: Sunday, May, 21st

Hot on the pursuit of the treble, it is back to domestic duty at the Etihad and we have you covered for Manchester City vs Chelsea bet builder tips.

The visitors are 13.00 to leave Manchester with three points and I really do fear for them.

It has been a disastrous campaign, and it could get a whole lot worse on Super Sunday, given the form the hosts are in.

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Manchester City vs Chelsea Preview
Manchester City vs Chelsea Stats & Facts
Manchester City vs Chelsea Bet Builder

Manchester City vs Chelsea Preview

England, Premier League, Sunday, May 21st, 16:00 (UK)

Manchester City edged a tight affair the last time the sides met in the Premier League at the Etihad in January 2022.

Thomas Tuchel was in the visitors’ dugout and Romelu Lukaku spearheaded their attack, the former is in pursuit of a Bundesliga title with Bayern and the latter will meet City in the Champions League final with Inter.

Chelsea went off at 5.25 that afternoon and went on to finish third, how quickly things can change in football.

Tuchel was sacked for Graham Potter and after that gave up on that project, Frank Lampard returned on an interim basis.

Since his homecoming, only Southampton (relegated) and Leeds have taken fewer points than Chelsea. The Blues have beaten Bournemouth and drew with Nottingham Forest under Lampard’s tutelage.

Meanwhile, City put four past defending champions Real Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday. For context, the Spanish side breezed by Chelsea in the previous round, winning 4-0 on aggregate.

In his post-match interview, Pep Guardiola spoke about getting the job done ‘as quickly as possible’ in the league, so his side can focus on their finals against Manchester United and Inter.

You would imagine that entails shuffling his deck for Sunday’s game.

Manchester City vs Chelsea Stats & Facts

Man City have already scored 92 goals in the EPL this campaign, a tally only themselves and Liverpool (94) can best since Pep joined them
The hosts have won taken maximum points from their last 11 EPL games
Man City have won each of their last 3 games against Chelsea 1-0 but have never won 4 in a row against them domestically
The last time Chelsea scored against City was when they met in the UCL final, they have played 5 times since

Manchester City vs Chelsea Bet Builder

Riyad Mahrez will be one of the beneficiaries of Pep’s rotation here, surely.

The Algerian has fallen out of favour this season, often snubbed on the biggest of occasions having started for the UCL games last campaign.

Such is the competitive nature of the quad, when he is called upon, he performs. Mahrez had had a direct hand in at least one goal in each of his last five starts.

The former Leicester man scored a hat-trick in the FA Cup semi-final game against Sheffield United and has registered five assists across the four domestic starts since.

This takes his goals and assists tally to 28 this season. That is an average of 0.81.

That figure directly translates to a price of 1.23 and goes a little way to explaining why Betfair and Paddy Power have Mahrez to score or assist at 1.62.

Sky Bet’s 1.83 looks more like it and it makes up the first leg of the bet.

Sticking along similar lines, I think it is worth backing City to score over two goals there.

The victory in midweek extended their unbeaten run to 23 games. The Citizens have found the net in every one of those fixtures, bagging 68 goals over that period and hitting this line in 65.2% of those matches.

In the top flight, under Lampard, Chelsea have conceded 11 in six. Only Arsenal have hit this line of three but the Blues have not kept a clean sheet.