If you distrust Chelsea's chances against Manchester City, I understand. Watching them float in the middle of the table, displaying flashes of potential, has been maddening. Their sudden shifts from good to bad are a huge issue. However, football surprises. Given Chelsea's unpredictability, Manchester City should win, but there's always a chance. While City is in terrific form, Chelsea has defeated top clubs before. It won't be easy, but completely dismissing Chelsea may be premature. Test their mettle. Even if I distrust them, I want to see if they can surprise
In football, surprises are very possible to happen and many things cannot be predicted with certainty, but we also have to measure the percentage of possible surprises that will occur.
Manchester City is currently in top form and they are also competing fiercely in the race for the Premier League title this season so in my opinion the percentage of surprises is very small and also Chelsea's current performance is also quite bad, in terms of quality of course there is a significant comparison of strength between Chelsea and Manchester City.
It makes sense that we should give them a chance to pull off a big surprise. But as you said, we must also be able to measure how likely the surprise will be able to happen with their performances that are still like that and with Manchester City's excellent performance to date.
Manchester City are far above Chelsea in appearance, with such a difference then we will definitely speculate with what happens in this match. Chelsea are still very doubtful, even when they meet a weaker team than them the doubt is still quite lingering in the minds of some people, and honestly when Chelsea play and I want to make a bet, I try not to bet on them.