Chelsea - Manchester United, forecasts, 23/10/2016
Chelsea - Manchester United, forecasts, 23/10/2016
Chelsea lost 2 of 2 derbies in the Premier League so far!
Chelsea will approach a point of the leaders in the Premier League - Arsenal and Liverpool - where victory in this clash.
The manager Antonio Conte has introduced a new scheme in the last two rounds. After a few tentative outcome Italian decided to abandon the traditional 4-3-3 and play around with 3-4-3. This provided easy victories over Hull as a guest (2: 0) and champions Leicester at home (3: 0).
Midfielder N'Golo Cante said: "The new system works well. Now we are better both with the ball and without it, and it almost does not endanger our front door. "
Chelsea, however, lost both derbies in which the game until he fell from Liverpool at home with 1: 2 Arsenal as a guest with 0: 3. Upcoming clash with Manchester United will show whether blue really improved lately or just playing against mediocre opponents.
Otherwise, Londoners do not know the taste of defeat in their last 10 games with the Red Devils in all competitions, recording 5 wins and 5 draws in this period. 4 of the last 6 ended in a draw. The ratio of new draw is 3.30.
Household matches of Chelsea converted into goals show recently, with more than 2.5 goals have been scored in 7 of their last 8 league games of "Stamford Bridge".
Manager Antonio Conte said: "I watched the game Manchester United to Liverpool. It was a tough game between two very good teams that will fight for the title until the end of the championship. The match was very tactical, we saw two indoor teams who acted very carefully especially in the game without the ball. On Sunday we can expect new tactical dancing. "
Located in good shape Diego Costa is expected to be cutting edge in attack of the hosts. He scored 7 goals in 8 matches in the Premier League.
Manchester United will overtake Chelsea at victory!
Manchester United is only in 7th place in the Premier League, but when victory will overtake Chelsea in the standings.
Jose Mourinho was pleased after dull goalless draw with Liverpool "Anfield" on Monday. And it can not be otherwise, having managed to neutralize the best attack in the league at the time. But even in this closed match could see at least three goals if they were both unique saves De Gea and incredible omission of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Weekdays Red Devils demonstrated their deadly effectiveness of convincing 4: 1 at home against Fenerbahce in Europa League by scoring with his first four shots in the game.
So Man Utd are unbeaten in 6 games already, although it won only one of their last five Premier League.
The curious thing about the confrontation is that Jose Mourinho who now leads United is the most successful manager in Chelsea's history. Special won 7 trophies with the Blues (3 x Premier League 3 x League Cup, FA Cup 1 x) and conceded only 5 losses in 106 games, but was dismissed in December 2015.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was rested against Galatasaray and now almost certainly will lead the attack on the Red Devils.
Expensive summer signing Paul Pogba was even the subject of severe criticism after the match with Liverpool. On Thursday night, however, he scored 2 goals in the victory over the Turkish Grand and reminded qualities.