Pep Guardiola's squad won 1-0 over Premier League champions Chelsea on Sunday (4/3) at Etihad Stadium. Manchester City's performance is so remarkable that Chelsea made no move for 90 minutes at all.
However, the achievement of David Silva and friends did not only beat Chelsea and now has a margin of 17 points from Liverpool who is in second place only. The Citizen turned out to record the most baiting team in a Premier League game since the OPTA statistics body was set up in 2003.
In the game, the Manchester City players recorded release 902 bait throughout the game. This record is extraordinary beat the previous two records are also printed by Manchester City in the era of Guardiola, as reported by Sky Sports.
Note the highest number of passes in the next game held by City when competing against West Brom in October 2017 ago. At that time City incised 843 bait.
The other notes are when they recorded 825 passes against Bournemouth in December 2017. It was the fifth most bait record since 2003. City dominance was so felt in Etihad with Sergio Aguero cs dominating control of the ball up to 71 percent in the victory over Chelsea.
Data References
https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/970368785915043840/photo/1
- SkySportsPL- https://www.sporttechie.com/manchester-city-amazon-prime-video-series/