Chelsea lost their previous Premier League game vs Manchester City at the Etihad meaning their unbeaten run in the league has finally come to an end.
While the Blues did manage to take the lead but Man City showed tremendous fighting spirit and ended up picking all the three points thanks to goals from De Bruyne and Riyad Mahrez.
Chelsea were by far the better side up until City scored their first goal on the night but after that, the defending champions slowly started taking control of the match and the away side were unable to make any massive inroads into City’s defence.
Up until the first half an hour it looked like Chelsea could easily score a handful of goals during the match but shockingly enough they only managed one.
And according to Fikayo Tomori, the rub of the green went City’s way after they equalised and this was one of the biggest reasons why the Blues failed to come back into the match.
‘We’re happy with the way we played but disappointed with the result,’ the defender told the club’s official website. ‘It’s disappointing because we’ve been on a good run and we played well.
‘In the first half, we created a lot of chances, managed to score a goal and came close a few more times but once you go behind against a team like Man City then it’s always difficult to get back into the game.
‘We had a few half-chances in the second half but we just couldn’t convert them. They slowed the game down and made it a bit more difficult for us.
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‘We tried to up the energy but they’re a good team – they’re the champions for a reason.
‘Sometimes we won the second balls and were able to go forward and counter on them a lot but sometimes they won them and those little moments can define the game.
‘When they scored that second goal, which was a great finish from Mahrez, from that point it was always going to be difficult. After half-time, they tried to stop us playing out as much because in the first half we were getting out a lot, playing good football and creating chances with the ball.
‘They wanted to step on us a bit more and we knew that would leave a few spaces behind their midfield so we wanted to exploit that. We wanted to mix it up and keep them guessing, which came off a few times.’
