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“Wow! Pep leaving his three best attackers on the bench!” writes Justin Kavanagh. “He’s definitely choosing tails in that title coin-flip tonight.”

Pep Guardiola explains his team selection to Sky Sports:

There is a risk in making changes but the manager is here to take the risk. We have to take it. People may not believe me but I trust my players. In three days we have to travel to London, it’s always a long trip, while Chelsea do not have to travel. Then we immediately have to travel to Bournemouth [for next Tuesday’s game], one of the top-form teams, so everyone has to play these three games. The Premier League is so complicated. If those games were five or six days later, maybe the situation would have been different.