{"id":1183360,"date":"2021-01-03T19:03:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1183360"},"modified":"2021-01-03T19:03:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:03:26","slug":"chelsea-1-3-manchester-city-five-things-learned-foden-gundogan-stones-lampard","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/chelsea-1-3-manchester-city-five-things-learned-foden-gundogan-stones-lampard\/","title":{"rendered":"“Phil Foden ran riot” – Five things learned as magnificent Man City crush Chelsea at Stamford Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a dominant afternoon of football, Manchester City dismantled Chelsea 1-3 at Stamford Bridge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The win moves City up to fifth with a game in-hand and serves as a statement for Pep Guardiola’s men. What did we learn?<\/p>\n

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1. Phil Foden and movement<\/strong><\/h2>\n

People look at Pep Guardiola’s teams and they always focus on the passing or the pressing, or maybe Leo Messi. What they never focus on is the movement off-the-ball, this is despite movement being utterly essential to the way Guardiola’s teams play.<\/p>\n

A passing attack with no one moving off the ball becomes stagnant, as City have often looked this season. However against Chelsea we saw Phil Foden line-up in an attacking three and from that one decision flowed all of City’s dominance.<\/p>\n

Foden’s movement down the outside was obvious and useful, especially with his pace (“he’s turned into Marc Overmars!” cried Gary Neville at one point) but no one was expecting him to make diagonal runs inside, but that’s exactly what he did, repeatedly.<\/p>\n

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Phil Foden's game by numbers vs. Chelsea:<\/p>\n

31 touches
4 chances created
3 shots
3 fouls won
3 recoveries
1 tackle
1 shot on target
1 assist
1 goal<\/p>\n

An impressive performance from the youngster. pic.twitter.com\/AsYuHQERdJ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Squawka (@Squawka) January 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n