Chelsea vs Manchester United: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head
Chelsea have misplaced simply one in every of their final 12 Premier League house video games towards Man Utd (W6 D5), and wish to win three in a row towards them at Stamford Bridge for the primary time since April 2006.
Following their 2-1 win in September, Manchester United wish to full the Premier League double over Chelsea for simply the second time after the 2019-20 marketing campaign.
Chelsea vs Manchester United has been drawn extra usually than different fixture in Premier League historical past (27). Just seven of these 27 attracts have been 0-0, additionally making it the fixture with probably the most rating attracts within the competitors (20).
Since the beginning of March, no aspect in Europe’s big-five leagues has misplaced extra video games in all competitions than Chelsea coming into the weekend’s video games (6 in 9 video games). Their earlier six defeats came to visit a interval of 29 video games (W15 D8 L6).
Manchester United have misplaced two of their final 4 league video games (W1 D1), after solely dropping two of their earlier 22 beforehand (W12 L8). They might lose back-to-back Premier League video games for the primary time this season – they’re presently one in every of simply two golf equipment but to undergo two successive defeats within the competitors in 2025-26, together with league-leaders Arsenal.
Chelsea have misplaced their final three Premier League matches – solely eleven this century have they misplaced 4 video games in a row, doing so in April/May 2023 below Frank Lampard. They have not misplaced 4 in a row with out scoring a aim since February/March 1998, which included a house defeat to Man Utd.
Manchester United have stored only one clear sheet of their final 21 away Premier League matches, whereas their final two away clear sheets within the competitors have come towards groups managed by a former supervisor of theirs – 3-0 at Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Leicester in March 2025 and 1-0 at David Moyes’ Everton in February 2026.
This recreation shall be simply the sixth Premier League assembly this season between two English managers, whereas it is the primary to be performed as late as April in a season by two Englishmen beginning the day within the top-six since April 1999, when John Gregory’s Sixth-placed Aston Villa confronted Harry Redknapp’s Fifth-placed West Ham in a 0-0 draw.
Chelsea might welcome again Enzo Fernández for this recreation – the Argentinian has had the joint-most photographs on the right track of any Blues participant within the Premier League this season (27), whereas additionally creating probably the most possibilities general (51) and in open play (46), and he has accomplished probably the most passes within the ultimate third (459). He’s additionally prime within the Premier League amongst all gamers for defensive line-breaking passes (41).
Bruno Fernandes has assisted Casemiro six instances within the Premier League this season – the joint-most by a Manchester United participant to a single teammate in a marketing campaign within the competitors, equaling Fernandes to Marcus Rashford in 2022-23.