📏 Form Guide

Chelsea

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Chelsea will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 2-0 Premier League defeat last time out to Newcastle United.

In that match, Chelsea managed 55% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. On the other side, Newcastle United had 15 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Sandro Tonali (2') and Bruno Guimarães (90') scored for Newcastle United.

In their last six fixtures, Enzo Maresca's Chelsea have found the net a total of 11 times giving them an average number of goals per match equal to 1.83.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Chelsea:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Manchester United in their previous 2 matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 9 league matches at home. A run that they'll hope to extend here.

Manchester United

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against West Ham United in Premier League competition, Manchester United will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Manchester United had 52% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. For their opponents, West Ham United had 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Tomáš Souček (26') and Jarrod Bowen (57') scored for West Ham United.

The stats tell the story, and Manchester United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals in total. Defensively, Manchester United can certainly do much better. While that may be of interest, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend shall continue on in this next game.

Analysis of their past results shows that Manchester United:

• have not registered a win against Chelsea when having played them away from home in the previous 4 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.
• are without a win away from home in their last 4 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head to head clashes dating back to 28/04/2022 shows that Chelsea have won 1 of these games & Manchester United 2, with the number of drawn games being 3.

21 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 9 from The Blues and 12 belonging to The Red Devils. The average goals per game has been 3.5.

The last league match between these sides was Premier League match day 10 on 03/11/2024 which ended up with the score at Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea.

On that day, Manchester United had 47% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Bruno Fernandes (70').

Chelsea had 12 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Moisés Caicedo (74') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Robert Jones.

📰 Team News: Chelsea

Aarón Anselmino (Hamstring injury), Christopher Nkunku (unknown injury), Omari Kellyman (surgery), David Datro Fofana (Knee injury) and Wesley Fofana (surgery) will not be taking part for Chelsea gaffer Enzo Maresca.

In our view, The Blues could opt for a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game with Robert Sanchez, Reece James, Tosin Adarabioyo, Levi Colwill, Marc Cucurella, Moises Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez, Noni Madueke, Cole Palmer, Tyrique George and Pedro Neto.

ℹ️ Team News: Manchester United

Manchester United boss Rúben Amorim has a number of players out of action. Matthijs de Ligt (Knee injury), Joshua Zirkzee (Thigh problems) and Lisandro Martínez (Cruciate ligament injury) will miss out on this game.

We reckon that The Red Devils will likely make use of a 3-4-2-1 formation by sending out Andre Onana, V. Nilsson Lindeloef, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Noussair Mazraoui, Casemiro, Mason Mount, Patrick Dorgu, Amad Diallo, Bruno Fernandes and Rasmus Hoejlund.

🧠 Prediction

It looks to us like Manchester United will be up against it to find the back of the net against a Chelsea lineup who have the quality to control most aspects of this game.

We are anticipating a 3-0 winning margin for Chelsea at the end of this one.

Renata Leite, 19:04 16/05/2025