LUIZ: WE’VE BLOWN TITLE RACE OPEN

DAVID LUIZ insists Chelsea have blown the title race wide open by beating Manchester City.

He claims they have shown Pep Guardiola’s reigning champions can be vulnerable in inflicting their first Premier League defeat of the season – although he still rates them the best team in the world.

The defender helped inspire the Blues and scored their second goal (celebrating, right).

Defeat saw City knocked off the top of the table by Liverpool.

Luiz said: “It shows the level of everyone. City, because they are more than three years with the coach and players, but football is like that... if you’re not 100 per cent one day, you can be beaten and we saw that. We took our opportunities.

“Everything can happen, that’s why everybody loves to be here.

”I hope we hurt them and we can come on in the table and be closer to them. But I hope, I hope, I hope.

“At the moment, they’re the best team in the world, more than three years together. It’s never easy to play against them, but I think we had the right humility and right plan to win the game.

“Every time you play this type of game is a time to give everything and understand how far you can go. So this was an amazing game and we beat the best team in the world.”

Luiz believes boss Maurizio Sarri’s game plan could be the key and a blueprint of how to beat City from now on.

The Brazilian added: “They are a fantastic team and they accept to lose sometimes too because they have experience of that. The way they play, they are able to keep the ball, even the goalkeeper is amazing.

“That way you have to be honest and have the humility to say, ‘OK, we have to defend, we have to suffer’ because we are playing against a fantastic team.

“They create many opportunities if you don’t concentrate.

“That’s what we tried to do on the defensive side and then we tried to enjoy our space when we had it.

“I think we have to trust ourselves, our job and our plan. It’s never easy to lose the games and then come back stronger.

“Maurizio’s a fantastic coach and before that he’s a fantastic man, he talks with us and says let’s keep doing what we are doing.

“In his first three or four months here he’s already changed a lot our style and philosophy.

“This is an opportunity to learn and be even stronger in the future.

“He’s one of the top managers in the world and we have to look at ourselves and understand why sometimes we are good and why sometimes we are not.

“When you have this you can improve.”