officially enough to make next season\u2019s UCL<\/a>) have suffered blow after blow in recent weeks. A limp 3-0 home defeat to Man City last weekend made it three league losses on the spin for the Blues, who are now four points behind fifth-placed Liverpool.<\/p>\nUnited looked to be cruising towards a top five after an excellent run under interim boss Michael Carrick but doubts opened up again on Monday night when they suffered a 2-1 home loss to Leeds. That\u2019s now eight points dropped in their last four matches.<\/p>\n
Chelsea v Man Utd kick-off time<\/p>\n
Chelsea v Man Utd kicks off at 20.00 BST on Saturday, April 18 at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n
Chelsea v Man Utd how to watch<\/p>\n
The game will be shown live in the UK via TNT Sports 1. Coverage begins at 7pm.<\/p>\n
TalkSPORT will provide live radio coverage.<\/p>\n
Chelsea team news<\/p>\n
Midfielder Enzo Fernandez should return to the fold after serving a two-game club-imposed suspension.<\/p>\n
Blues boss Liam Rosenior will also hope Reece James and Benoit Badiashile will be in contention again after being out through injury and illness respectively.<\/p>\n
Trevoh Chalobah, Levi Colwill and Jamie Gittens are all still in the treatment room.<\/p>\n
Man Utd team news<\/p>\n
Defenders Harry Maguire and Lisandro Martinez are both missing through suspension, the latter for his hair pull on Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the loss to Leeds.<\/p>\n
With Matthis de Ligt still sidelined through injury, Ayden Heaven and Leny Yoro may form a makeshift central defensive pairing.<\/p>\n
Kobbie Mainoo missed the Leeds match due to a knock and is a doubt.<\/p>\n
Chelsea v Man Utd odds<\/p>\n
Despite their poor form which extends to six defeats in nine when taking into account all competitions, Chelsea are clear favourites to win at 6\/5.<\/p>\n
Manchester United are 2\/1 for the win while it\u2019s 5\/2 that the Blues and Red Devils extend their record total of Premier League draws to 28.<\/p>\n
In the betting for a Top five finish, United are just 1\/16 while Chelsea are 2\/1. That big gap in their odds would narrow considerably if Chelsea got the win to move them within four of the visitors.<\/p>\n
Chelsea v Man Utd prediction<\/p>\n
United were alarmingly poor in the first half against Leeds and the double suspension of Maguire and Martinez for this one hurts them.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve also got a poor recent record at Stamford Bridge after winning just once in the last 12 Premier League visits.<\/p>\n
But, on current form, can you really be backing Chelsea at just above even money?<\/p>\n
United improved markedly in the second 45 against Leeds despite being a man down and a kind view is that they were perhaps rusty having not played for 24 days.<\/p>\n
Both sides are struggling to keep the opposition out so let\u2019s end where we came in with this preview and back a draw at 5\/2.<\/p>\n
Four of the last five meetings have ended 1-1 so let\u2019s try a repeat at 13\/2.<\/p>\n
The 10\/3 for Bruno Fernandes to register an assist may be the best bet of all however.<\/p>\n
The Portuguese playmaker now has 17 assists in the top-flight this term after setting up Casemiro against Leeds and that\u2019s just three short of the all-time record for a single season held by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the most drawn fixture in Premier League history. These two top-flight giants have finished deadlocked no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[219,448,59,146484,50,221,101,56,1955,54,55],"class_list":["post-536503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-front-page","tag-gb","tag-match-preview","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-uncategorized","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}