Watch every moment as City's Elite Development Squad kicked off our 2025/26 Premier League 2 campaign with a trip to Chelsea.
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After an intense pre-season, Ben Wilkinson and his team were braced for a difficult challenge away at Kingsmeadow as we began our Premier League 2 title defence.
The young Blues were looking to get off to a flying start and to build momentum ahead of what promises to be another exciting campaign.
But pitted against an impressive Chelsea side eager to impress on home soil it promised to be a testing opening assignment.
How would it all pan out in west London?
CITY+ subscribers can watch all the action as it unfolded...
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