5 Reasons why Chelsea could destroy Manchester City today

#2. Bakayoko and Kante will win the midfield battle

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Manchester City have a vast, quite literally scary, array of talent in midfield but with the exception of Fernandinho, and an aging Yaya Toure, not one of them are designed to win the kind of midfield battles that every Premier League champion of yester-years have had to win in crunch games like this.

As good as David Silva, Kevin de Bruyne, and Bernardo Silva are, if they go into a physical battle with either of Tiemoue Bakayoko or N'Golo Kante, there will be one winner - and it will the man in deep blue.

Fernandinho's presence is essential for City and the underrated Brazilian often dominates matches on his own, but Chelsea's power and pace in the middle of the park may just be too much for even him.