Chelsea 0-3 Manchester City: Barclays Premier League - as it happened

That is all from IBTimes UK for now, but stay tuned for post-match reaction from both Pellegrini and Hiddink.

We will be back tomorrow afternoon to bring you live coverage of leaders Leicester as they seek to extend their advantage over Spurs by 10 points before Monday night. Bournemouth vs Liverpool and Arsenal's match against Crystal Palace are also on the agenda.

Until then, goodnight.

City travel to Newcastle on Tuesday and host Stoke next weekend before entertaining Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final.

Chelsea, meanwhile, visit Bournemouth ahead of a home clash with London rivals and title contenders Tottenham.

For the second time in the Premier League this season, City ease past Chelsea 3-0. Aguero keeps up his excellent scoring record against last season's champions with a brilliant hat-trick, although De Bruyne was also instrumental on his first return to Stamford Bridge. Nasri is not eligible for Champions League competition, of course, but Pellegrini will still hope that injury is not too serious.

That is the first home league defeat suffered by Hiddink in two spells as interim manager and a humbling afternoon was rather summed up by Courtois' second-half red card. The Belgian goalkeeper has been well below his best in 2015-16 and risks being usurped by Begovic.

Full-time

Chelsea 0-3 Manchester City

Baba Rahman weaves his way down the left and produces an enticing low cross into the six-yard box, but Costa and co are nowhere to be seen and Kolarov can clear.

Costa takes advantage of a bit of space on the edge of the box to force Hart into a diving save. Kenedy looks to miscontrol the rebound but he is flagged for offside.

Four minutes of added time signalled by the fourth official. Plenty of empty blues seats around Stamford Bridge now.

Adoring cries of "Sergio" ring out from the jubilant travelling supporters as the magnificent Aguero is withdrawn. Kelechi Iheanacho will feature for the final five minutes.

No hope for Chelsea now as Fabregas tries his luck with a long-range shot that is comfortably held by Hart. De Bruyne then fires over at the opposite end.

A forgettable afternoon for Chelsea gets worse as Courtois, who was sent off on the opening day of the season against Swansea for a similar challenge on Bafetimbi Gomis, rushes out to fell the advancing Fernandinho and is promptly dismissed for the second time this season.

Aguero is forced to wait to take the penalty as Begovic comes on in place of Mikel, but he keeps his composure to find the bottom corner for his hat-trick.

Goal: Chelsea 0-3 Manchester City (Sergio Aguero)

Red card: Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea)

Concern for Nasri now as he goes down injured and requires treatment from the City physios. He will not be able to carry on and heads straight down the tunnel after being replaced by Fabian Delph.

Hopefully that's not too serious for the man who has already missed seven months of action this season due to a nasty thigh muscle injury that required over 100 stitches.

Risky defending from De Bruyne as he goes to ground to try and stop Kenedy. The versatile Brazilian hits the deck in search of a penalty, but Dean is not interested.

The combative Mikel buzzes around in midfield trying to dispossess both De Bruyne and Nasri, but ends up being harshly booked for a rather tame foul on the latter.

Mystifying as to how that merits a caution, but Zabaleta's foul on Pedro did not.

Hiddink makes a double change with 20 minutes left to play. Kenedy and Traore come on for Pedro and Willian.

Mangala clears Willian's cross from the right wing. Chelsea get a second bite of the cherry, but miscommunication between Loftus-Cheek and Azpilicueta results in the ball rolling harmlessly out of play.

Having avoided a dismissal by the skin of his teeth just moments ago, Zabaleta is swiftly replaced by Sagna. He's clearly not happy about it, but that is sensible management from Pellegrini.

Aguero turns provider for Nasri, but again Courtois is able to make the save. Zabaleta is somewhat fortunate to avoid a second yellow card for a cynical foul on Pedro.

Azpilicueta joins Zabaleta and Otamendi in the book for deliberately blocking Navas' lofted pass with his hand. Toure's subsequent free-kick is hammered straight into the wall and Chelsea clear.

After soaking up a fair amount of pressure, City double their lead with another lethal counter. De Bruyne is the architect again, going past Azpilicueta with poise and pace before feeding Nasri.

With Navas arriving swiftly on the overlap, the French midfielder instead threads a through ball for Aguero, who times his run to perfection and slots coolly beyond Courtois.

Goal: Chelsea 0-2 Manchester City (Sergio Aguero)

Chelsea are dominating possession in the early stages of this second half. No real chances to show for it as of yet, however.

The second half is off and running. A couple of early sighters from Loftus-Cheek, the latter of which is blazed over after good work to evade the attentions of Fernandinho.

A thoroughly entertaining first half in west London that has certainly not been short of chances and attacking purpose. Courtois did very well indeed to deny both De Bruyne and Nasri, but could do nothing for the goal as Aguero's shot took a huge deflection off Cahill before nestling in the bottom corner.

Chelsea have had their moments too, but Otamendi recovered from his mistake to thwart Pedro early on. More of the same after the break, please.

Half-time

Chelsea 0-1 Manchester City

Costa rolls Eliaquim Mangala with ease before being scythed down by Otamendi. Dean tries to play the advantage before bringing play back to caution the Argentine.

One minute of added time signalled and Willian balloons a free-kick into the crowd. What a waste.

Fabregas comes close to releasing Costa before Cahill makes a crucial sliding challenge to stop Aguero capitalising on De Bruyne's low pass.

City's turn now to get wide and put decent balls into the box. Kolarov and Navas both deliver but no green shirts gamble at the front post and it remains 1-0.

Almost an instant reply from Chelsea, but Pedro's inviting delivery across the face of goal is put behind by Kolarov.

City have spurned a few glorious chances to take the lead in the opening half an hour, but they make no mistake this time as a swift and purposeful break results in De Bruyne sprinting down the right flank with Aguero in support.

The Belgian's rather slow pass looks to have been played too early, but his teammate steps inside and curls an effort that deflects off Cahill and into the bottom corner.

Goal: Chelsea 0-1 Manchester City (Sergio Aguero)

Otamendi concedes a needless corner with a heavy touch to cut out Pedro's cross at the back post. City survive and it remains 0-0 with just under 15 minutes of the first half remaining.

The first yellow card of the evening is awarded to Zabaleta, who is deservedly cautioned for a late sliding challenge on Cesc Fabregas.

Navas is starting to cause real problems for Chelsea, nutmegging Baba Rahman before his low ball towards Aguero is hacked clear by Cahill.

Courtois is then called into action once again to deny Nasri one-on-one. Hard to believe this match is still goalless.

Chelsea are beginning to turn the screw now and Nasri protests after Pedro's mishit shot results in a corner.

The hosts win another when a volley from Cahill is deflected behind, but they almost end up conceding when, with their centre-backs caught up the pitch, Toure releases De Bruyne. Luckily for them, Courtois stands firm to save with his foot.

Excellent from Loftus-Cheek. The 20-year-old collects a short pass from Pedro and easily beats Otamendi before producing a low, left-footed shot that looks to be pushed away by Hart only for the referee to signal for a goal kick.

Ivanovic is in the right place once again to cut out Kolarov's low cross from the left flank. Loftus-Cheek then overhits a pass intended for Costa and a Chelsea counter attack breaks down.

Costa has the ball in the net after Baba Rahman forces Navas into a terrible error, but the offside flag is raised. That was a real let-off for City.

De Bruyne looks to test compatriot Courtois by shooting from a difficult angle. Willian then tees up Pedro with a great pass but Zabaleta is there to turn it behind for a corner.

It's been a very lively start to proceedings. Plenty of attacking intent from both teams.

Alert defending from Ivanovic to thwart Nasri's dangerous pass towards Aguero.

At the other end, Nicolas Otamendi totally fails to deal with a high ball before blocking Pedro's shot on the line after Costa was held up by Joe Hart.

A real chance for City with two minutes gone as De Bruyne collects Jesus Navas' perfectly-weighted pass at the byline. He squares it for Aguero, who is denied the opening goal by a vital covering block from Cesar Azpilicueta.

Referee Mike Dean gets us underway at Stamford Bridge. City, playing from left to right in their loud neon green third kit, kick off. Chelsea are in their usual blue home strips.

Here is what Pellegrini said this week regarding De Bruyne's first return to Chelsea, the club for whom he started just five matches in two years following a move from Genk in 2012 before spending time on loan at Werder Bremen and eventually being offloaded to Wolfsburg.

The Belgian, who recently returned from a knee injury, thrived in the Bundesliga and has similarly excelled since a club-record £55m switch to the Etihad Stadium.

I suppose they're not happy. But that happens. There's a lot of different cases. Pogba was free from Manchester United and he is a very important player (now). But Pogba at that moment was not the same Pogba that he is today.

It's difficult to answer. Maybe three years ago Kevin wasn't the same player as he is now. Seeing him play, he has a lot of condition to be a very important player.

[quotes via the Manchester Evening News]

The final whistles are sounding around the 15.00 BST kick-offs and Aston Villa have been relegated to the second tier for the first time since 1987 following a Marcus Rashford-inspired 1-0 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Just above them, the race for survival is heating up nicely with Newcastle matching rivals Sunderland's 3-0 win over Norwich by easing past Swansea. Jamaal Lascelles, Moussa Sissoko and Andros Townsend all scored in their first win since Rafael Benitez replaced Steve McClaren as manager in March. They are now just three points adrift of safety.

A goal from Sadio Mane helped Southampton claim a point at Everton following Ramiro Funes Mori's opener, while Watford won at West Brom thanks to Ben Watson. Saido Berahino missed not one but two penalties at The Hawthorns.

City also swap four, with full-backs Bacary Sagna and Gael Clichy replaced by Pablo Zabaleta and Aleksandar Kolarov.

Kolo Toure, who looks set to leave the club this summer, comes in for Fernando in midfield and Samir Nasri deputises for the injured Silva. Martin Demichelis is on the bench.

Hiddink makes four changes to the side that surrendered Chelsea's 14-match unbeaten streak in the league with a 1-0 defeat at Swansea City last weekend. Cahill and Costa both return, with Matt Miazga and Corinthians loanee Alexandre Pato both relegated to the bench. Ruben Loftus-Cheek starts once more.

Willian returns in place of Oscar and Thibaut Courtois is back in goal at the expense of Asmir Begovic. Matic is listed among the substitutes, although youngsters Ola Aina, Kasey Palmer and Charlie Colkett drop out of the squad.

Manchester City: Hart, Zabaleta, Otamendi, Mangala, Kolarov, Toure, Fernandinho, Navas, Nasri, De Bruyne, Aguero

Subs: Caballero, Sagna, Demichelis, Fernando, Delph, Bony, Iheanacho

Chelsea: Courtois, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Ivanovic, Baba Rahman, Mikel,
Fabregas, Willian, Loftus-Cheek, Pedro, Diego Costa

Subs: Begovic, Miazga, Matic, Kenedy, Traore, Pato, Falcao

Confirmed lineups to come very soon. Kick-off today is at 17.30 BST.

City were thrashed 5-1 on their last visit to Stamford Bridge as Pellegrini, irritated at an FA Cup tie being scheduled so close to their long Champions League trip to Dynamo Kiev, opted for a youthful squad featuring seven teenagers in Tosin Adarabioyo, Manu Garcia Alonso, Aleix Garcia Serrano, Bersant Celina, Cameron Humphreys-Grant, David Faupala and Brandon Barker.

The impressive Faupala actually fired them into an early lead, but further goals from Costa, Willian, Cahill, Hazard and Bertrand Traore led to a heavy defeat. The previous league meeting between these two sides came on the second weekend of the season in August, when Sergio Aguero, Kompany and Fernandinho scored in a 3-0 home win that set the wheels in motion for Chelsea's rapid decline under Jose Mourinho.

As for City, skipper Vincent Kompany will miss out with his latest calf issue yet should be OK to start against relegation candidates Newcastle United at St James' Park.

David Silva has not been considered due to an ankle injury, while Raheem Sterling is back in training after a groin problem sustained in the Manchester derby. Pellegrini has earmarked Tuesday as a likely return date for the England international.

Before we get wind of the official team news, Chelsea will have Diego Costa back in the fold today following a three-match suspension for his meltdown in an FA Cup quarter-final defeat at Everton.

Nemanja Matic and Gary Cahill are fit again after calf and hip problems respectively, although captain John Terry and back-up striker Loic Remy remain sidelined. Eden Hazard is also expected to miss out despite being described by Guus Hiddink as "on the edge" of a return following over a month out.

The 2015 PFA Players' Player of the Year, who has not scored a league goal this season amid constant rumours of an imminent move to Real Madrid, is back in training as he continues his recovery from an ongoing hip complaint.

Chelsea vs Manchester City in mid-April - this game should have all the hallmarks of a pivotal title clash, shouldn't it? As it is, however, the two previous winners of the Premier League are 28 and 15 points adrift of leaders Leicester City respectively with just six matches left to play.

For City, European competition now dominates the agenda as they prepare to face the mighty Real Madrid for a place in the Champions League final after a stunning solo effort from ex-Blues playmaker Kevin de Bruyne set the seal on a memorable 3-2 aggregate victory over hapless Paris Saint-Germain in midweek.

They may be left in the rather uncomfortable position of having to win the tournament in order to secure qualification for next year, though. Providing Manchester United go on to relegate sorry Aston Villa this afternoon, Manuel Pellegrini's fourth-place side will lead their local rivals by just a point.

What a story it would be if Pep Guardiola, who is due to take the managerial reins this summer, were to be responsible for his new emloyers not playing top-level European football next term. Bayern Munich face Atletico Madrid in the last four.

As for the hosts, their woeful 2015-16 campaign has lurched from disaster to pure mediocrity. Out of both Europe and the FA Cup, they are merely seeking to finish as high in the league as possible ahead of Antonio Conte's arrival following the conclusion of his Euro 2016 campaign with Italy.