{"id":524271,"date":"2026-04-11T00:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:31:10","slug":"alan-shearer-makes-his-prediction-for-chelsea-vs-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524271\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Shearer makes his prediction for Chelsea vs Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=thechelseachronicle.com \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Add as preferred source on Google <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Alan Shearer has warned that Chelsea could inadvertently crown Arsenal as Premier League champions, suggesting a Manchester City failure at Stamford Bridge would leave the title race dead and buried.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_9adbfc2487aedc72-36\">Manchester City have dominated the recent head-to-head record, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> currently enduring an eight-match winless streak in the Premier League against the defending champions. <\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_9adbfc2487aedc72-36\">The Blues\u2019 last league victory in this fixture dates back to May 2021, and they have struggled significantly at Stamford Bridge, losing four of their last five home meetings with City. <\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_9adbfc2487aedc72-37\">The most recent encounter in January ended in a hard-fought 1\u20131 draw at the Etihad, which saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/match-coverage\/calum-mcfarlane-names-the-chelsea-star-who-was-exceptional-in-manchester-city-comeback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calum McFarlane make a bit of a name for himself<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_9adbfc2487aedc72-37\">As Liam Rosenior prepares for this Sunday\u2019s clash, he faces a City side that has evolved into Chelsea\u2019s ultimate bogey team, and he\u2019ll be without Enzo Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p> Fill in the gaps \u2013 who makes your starting XI to face Manchester City?\ud83d\udc40 <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Predicted-XI-1-819x1024.png\" alt=\"Chelsea predicted XI vs Man City\" class=\"wp-image-362562\" \/>GRV Media       Alan Shearer predicts a Manchester City win<\/p>\n<p>In his column for the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/04\/10\/alan-shearers-premier-league-predictions-including-chelsea-vs-man-city-27921395\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Metro<\/a>, Alan Shearer kept it short and sweet with his prediction for the Chelsea vs Manchester City clash, citing the Premier League title battle mostly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan City have to win every game with that huge game against Arsenal next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think with what we saw against Arsenal, with what we saw particularly against Liverpool after 25 minutes, City were brilliant, probably one of the best performances of the season. I would think they would carry that on, and I think City will win against Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Man City don\u2019t win and Arsenal win this weekend, I think the Premier League title race will be dead and buried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>          Clearlake will NOT sell Chelsea, they are prepared to buy out Todd Boehly and increase their stake even more \ud83d\udcb0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"grv-talking-point__subtitle\">What do you make of this?<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2267083870-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea FC v Paris Saint-Germain FC - UEFA Champions League 2025\/26 Round of 16 Second Leg\" class=\"wp-image-362511\" \/>Photo by Robin Jones\/Getty Images       Chelsea injury updates ahead of Manchester City clash<\/p>\n<p>Liam Rosenior has provided a positive injury update ahead of the Manchester City game, though it doesn\u2019t directly affect this weekend\u2019s clash. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrevoh is working really hard and is back on the pitch. Levi is training but still has some hurdles to overcome first, and Reece has been running today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of them [Chalobah, Colwill and James] will be ready for Man City but they are working well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best Chelsea content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add as preferred source on Google Alan Shearer has warned that Chelsea could inadvertently crown Arsenal as Premier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32030,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-524271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alan-shearer","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}