Ederson, Ruben Dias, Stones, Gundogan, Haaland, Grealish, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva. The majority of City’s today’s starting line-up?Actually – not. That was the Cityzens’ bench at Etihad on Sunday afternoon for the celebratory game against Chelsea, which eventually ended in a 1-0 home victory for the defending champions! Probably the greatest bench in the Premier League history…Not too bad, huh… (©Sky Sports)And not only did it not disturb Pep Guardiola, but his much-changed squad managed to top woeful Blues relatively easily, thanks to Julian Alvarez’s first-half winner. Chelsea’s defender Fofana gifted possession early on straight to Kalvin Phillips, who laid the ball off to Palmer. His perfect through ball found Alvarez unmarked in the box, and the Argentine had put it past Kepa for a 1-0 lead.Manchester City receive a guard of honor from Chelsea 🏆 pic.twitter.com/xG6ubFFDEc— B/R Football (@brfootball) May 21, 2023 Despite the fact they faced a significantly weakened City, the Blues simply couldn’t find ways to fight back. Ex-Cityzen Raheem Sterling was almost the only player in Frank Lampard’s team capable of fighting with the newly crowned champions on the same level.The result of it was a few of his rather promising chances in both halves, but Ederson’s replacement Ortega made some incredible saves, while John Stones cleared one ball from the goal-line to keep a clean sheet.That was a moment for Pep Guardiola to provide his top stars with a few minutes of much-deserved standing ovations as Haaland, De Bruyne, and Rodri came on, cheered by applauses from the packed stadium.Chelsea is the only team in the Premier League this season that Haaland have not score on!pic.twitter.com/7iL4RSQwlp— SamOFblue (@SSjovall) May 21, 2023 The time has come for celebrations, City lifted the Premier League trophy for the fifth time in the last six seasons. Simply the best!PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 37SaturdayTottenham – Brentford 1-3 (1-0)/Kane 8 – Mbeumo 50, 62, Wissa 88/Bournemouth – Manchester United 0-1 (0-1)/Casemiro 9/Fulham – Crystal Palace 2-2 (1-1)/Mitrovic 45+5 pen, 61 – Edouard 34, Ward 83/Liverpool – Aston Villa 1-1 (0-1)/Firmino 89 – Ramsey 27/Wolves – Everton 1-1 (1-0)/Hee-Chan 34 – Mina 90+9/Nottingham Forest – Arenal 1-0 (1-0)/Awoniyi 19/SundayWest Ham – Leeds 3-1 (1-1)/Rice 31, Bowen 72, Lanzini 90+4 – Rodrigo 17/Brighton – Southampton 3-1 (2-0)/Ferguson 29, 40, Gross 69 – Elyounoussi 58/Man City – Chelsea 1-0 (1-0)/Alvarez 12/Monday22:00: (1.43) Newcastle (5.30) Leicester (8.00)***odds are subject to change***
