What a game! Gary Lineker and Michael Owen lead the praise after Chelsea’s thrilling 4-4 draw with Man City at Stamford Bridge

• Chelsea drew 4-4 with Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday
• Cole Palmer earned a point for the blues with an injury time penalty
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Chelsea and Manchester City gave fans a spectacle on Sunday and a number of big names were quick to show their appreciation.

Pep Guardiola’s champions led three times at Stamford Bridge only to be pegged back on each occasion, with former City man Cole Palmer holding his nerve to grab his new team a point with a stoppage-time penalty.

The Premier League champions thought they had won it through Rodri’s goal, deflected in off the unfortunate Thiago Silva four minutes from time, but were left stunned in the dying seconds when substitute Armando Broja burst into the box and drew a foul from Ruben Dias, with Palmer dispatching his spot-kick under pressure to send home fans into raptures.

And the likes of Gary Lineker and Michael Owen had similar thoughts after the match.

‘What a game,’ they both tweeted and that was the general consensus from viewers up and down the country.

Paul Merson also tweeted ‘what a game’ before adding that ‘Chelsea have set there bar now. Play like that every week will be flying up the league… Sterling, Palmer and Gallagher very good.’

Sky Sports pundit Micah Richards was also extremely impressed by what he had seen.

He said: ‘exceptional, frantic, fantastic, it had everything, goals bad defending, good play, tackles it had absolutely everything.’ 

City scored first when Spanish defender Marc Cucurella pulled Haaland’s shirt to concede a VAR-checked penalty which the Norwegian coolly converted in the 24th minute.

Five minutes later Chelsea’s 39-year-old Brazilian defender Thiago Silva headed the ball into the net.

Former City forward Raheem Sterling tapped in after a Josko Gvardiol stumble in defence allowed Reece James to cross in the 37th minute.

But Chelsea’s lead lasted less than 10 minutes before defender Manuel Akanji rose to head City’s equaliser in first-half injury time.

Haaland bundled in his second a minute after the restart, but in the 67th minute of a breathless second half, the home side equalised through Nicolas Jackson.

Rodri’s 86th-minute strike seemed to have won it for the champions only for them to concede a 94th-minute penalty that Palmer blasted home.

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