It was prob­a­bly the fi­nal nail in the cof­fin for City how­ever, who are now a mas­sive 14 points be­hind Chelsea in the league.

Chelsea took the lead in the 10th minute when Eden Haz­ard’s strike at goal glanced off the head of re­turn­ing City skip­per Vin­cent Kom­pany and into the goal.

Al­though it took it slight de­flec­tion, Willy Ca­ballero should re­ally have done bet­ter.

But an­other goal­keep­ing er­ror, this time from Chelsea’s Thibaut Cour­tois, saw the vis­i­tors back in the game.

Cour­tois’ kick-out went straight to David Silva. The Spaniard fired an ef­fort at goal that Cour­tois could only parry out to Ser­gio Aguero, and he tapped home for 1-1.

But Pre­mier League pace-set­ters Chelsea en­sured they went in at the break ahead. Fer­nand­inho tripped Pe­dro in the box, and al­though Haz­ard saw his orig­i­nal penalty saved, he scored from Ca­ballero’s parry out.