Manchester City and Chelsea played out a thrilling 1-1 draw that saw City’s Rodri dramatically rescue a point with a late leveller to deny Chelsea a victory and maintain City’s long unbeaten home record.
Raheem Sterling gave Chelsea the lead against his old team just before half-time, finishing off a brilliant counter-attack by meeting Nicolas Jackson’s cross, cutting inside Kyle Walker and curling his shot home.
Erling Haaland was the main culprit for City, with his worst miss coming when he somehow headed wide from a delicious Kevin de Bruyne cross.
The defending champions were facing their first home league defeat since November 2022, until Rodri struck with seven minutes to go. After Walker’s shot was deflected into his path on the edge of the box, Rodri fired in a ferocious first-time strike that was going in anyway but took a touch off Chelsea substitute Trevoh Chalobah on its way into the net.
The draw sees City drop to third in the table, four points behind leaders Liverpool but with a game in hand. On the other hand, Chelsea, who were minutes away from a third successive away win, stay 10th and head to Wembley for next weekend’s Carabao Cup final on the back of one of their best displays of an erratic campaign.
