It ended 3–1 and it could easily have been more. Manchester City was superb, Chelsea was dreadful and, while this season has been too up and down to be overly confident in any judgement, the evidence is of a mounting title challenge from Pep Guardiola’s side. For Frank Lampard, meanwhile, the same old problems continue to undermine his side.
This game, more than perhaps any other in the Premier League this season, was played in the shadow of COVID-19. Fulham’s game away at Burnley had been called off earlier in the day, becoming the fourth Premier League match to have to be postponed because of the virus.