Chelsea travel to play Manchester City this coming Saturday in the Premier League and will likely face their toughest assignment yet as they attempt to make it 8 league games won in a row. Chelsea face Pep Guardiola’s side in the mouth-watering early game on Saturday and Antonio Conte’s team will get to use their impressive 3-4-3 formation against arguably the best side other than the West Londoners in the Premier League.

There is not much separating the two sides presently as City are only 1 point behind Chelsea sitting in joint second place with Liverpool. The two clubs possess the joint top scorers in the Premier League with Chelsea striker Diego Costa tied with the Citizen’s Sergio Aguero on 10 goals each. Chelsea come into the game on the back of a comeback win at Stamford Bridge where they ended Tottenham’s unbeaten start to the season beating Mauricio Pochettino’s side 2-1 with goals from Pedro and Victor Moses after Christian Eriksen had put Spurs ahead early on. Manchester City come into the match after beating Burnley 2-1 away at Turf Moor last Saturday with Sergio Aguero bagging both goals.

Chelsea have a really poor record at City in recent seasons as they have won only one of their last seven matches at the Etihad Stadium and lost their last game there 3-0 so the odds would seem to be against Antonio Conte. The feisty Italian manager likely does not see it that way however as he will be looking to continue shutting teams down after only allowing one goal over their 7 game league winning run while they have scored 17 goals during that time. So Chelsea fans will be hoping that Hazard and Costa continue to shine with the support of the other in form attacking players like Pedro and Victor Moses and the defence stands tall as it has since changing to the 3-4-3 formation so that the Blues get the win at the Etihad Stadium which they may well be due for.