Chelsea v Manchester United: hosts eye return to winning ways

Form and table position

Chelsea's recent run includes wins over Everton and Bournemouth, the latter a 5-1 victory, but also a 3-0 defeat to Brentford. They sit fourth, seven points behind leaders Manchester City and five clear of sixth-placed Brentford. A win would lift them to sixteen points from eight matches; defeat leaves them on thirteen.

Manchester United have not won any of their last five recent matches, drawing three and losing two. The most recent of those draws came against Leeds; before that they lost 0-2. They are thirteenth, six points behind Chelsea. A win would take them to ten points from eight matches; a draw to eight.

What the market expects

The market-implied probability has Chelsea as narrow favourites at 49.9 per cent, with Manchester United at 25.9 per cent and a draw at 24.2 per cent. That preference for the home side tracks the gap in both points and recent form: Chelsea have won three of five, United none. The five head-to-head meetings above contain fourteen goals in total, and United won two of the five meetings, though neither the competition nor the ground of those matches is recorded. Chelsea won two of the other three.

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