Pep Guardiola's decision to give many of Manchester City's star players more time to recover from Euro 2024 paid dividends on Sunday when their stand-ins helped the defending champions to a 2-0 win at Chelsea under new coach Enzo Maresca.
Champions Manchester City have begun their defence of the English Premier League with a 2-0 win against Chelsea .
In came right-back Rico Lewis and winger Savinho who both tormented Chelsea while Mateo Kovacic, Rodri's under-study, sealed the win with City's second goal in the 84th minute after Erling Haaland, fresh from a whole summer off, opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Unlike City's decision to rest their Euro stars, Chelsea started with Spain's Marc Cucurella and England's Cole Palmer who both appeared in the tournament final in Berlin on July 14.ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that's making headlines.
Palmer – Chelsea's runaway top scorer last season with 22 goals – was largely kept quiet by City's defence, and new signings Pedro Neto and Marc Guiu failed to pierce the visitors' back line.
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