Ammon News - Manchester City reignited the Premier League title race on Sunday, scoring three goals in 17 second-half minutes to crush ​Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and move within six points of leaders ‌Arsenal.

The visitors, who meet Arsenal at home next weekend in a mouthwatering clash, turned on the style after a pedestrian first half in which Chelsea arguably looked the stronger ​side.

Pep Guardiola's men began the second half with renewed conviction and ​simply skipped through the Londoners' shaky defences.

"Second half was a thousand ⁠times much better," Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports. "It was not bad the ​first half, but some players were not as they were meant to be."

Nico ​O'Reilly started the rout, shrugging off Andrey Santos to head the ball home from a Rayan Cherki cross in the 51st minute.
Cherki was on hand six minutes later to ​cross for former Chelsea defender Marc Guehi to finish in the bottom ​corner.

Jeremy Doku made it three in the 68th, robbing Moises Caicedo of the ball just ‌outside ⁠the Chelsea area and flashing his shot past the stranded Robert Sanchez in goal.

City have a game in hand and their tails up before next week's Arsenal fixture after the leaders lost to Bournemouth on Saturday.
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It was City's first ​Premier League victory since ​February but they ⁠beat Arsenal 2-0 at Wembley last month to win the League Cup, the eager 21-year-old O'Reilly scoring both goals.

Arsenal ​also have little rest between games with a Champions ​League quarter-final ⁠clash against Sporting in midweek.
"They will come with hunger," Doku told Sky Sports. "They don't want to just give it to us so we have to go and ⁠take ​it. Trust me, we'll be well prepared."

The result severely ​dented Chelsea's Champions League qualification ambitions. They remain sixth in the Premier League, four points adrift of ​Liverpool in fifth.

Reuters