Both Chelsea and Manchester United have suffered bitter setbacks. Who finds in the cup duel back on the road to success?
Chelsea vs Manchester United Today’s Betting Tips and Predictions
Topgame in the FA Cup! Chelsea will host Manchester United on Monday night for the final of the last sixteen games. A clear favorite is hard to spot in the run-up to the match, partly because both teams failed at the highest level. Can the blues use their home advantage? Or is it possible for the Red Devils instead to forget the local disgrace of Paris?
Chelsea
The last three results: 2: 1 vs. Malmo, 0: 6 vs. Manchester City, 5: 0 vs. Huddersfield
In light of the previous conditions, Chelsea’s visit to Malmö was decidedly unspectacular: the Blues won the sixteenth-final first-leg home away from home 2-1, putting them in a solid starting position. The team did not shine football-like splendor, but on the other hand it kept the opponent largely in check. A few days before that could be no question.
Against Manchester United, Chelsea had come namely rough under the wheels: 0: 6 were subject to the blues playing the unleashing champion, to which the Londoners had nothing to oppose that evening: defensively acted the team hopelessly overwhelmed, offensively, it was hardly a get through. The result: a thunderous bankruptcy that brought a chaotic start to the year to a climax.
Previously, the team had already made similar spectacular appearances, with different outputs. Against Huddersfield Town, for example, the team celebrated a heady 5-0 victory, with new signing Gonzalo Higuain scored a double. It seemed to be the blues blast, as previously embarrassed as much as Manchester’s later on: against AFC Bournemouth the Elf of Maurizio Sarri went down 0-4 – also one of the bitterest defeats of recent club history.
The bottom line is the blues in four victories from the last seven games; a mixed record that takes into account the inconsistency of the team: sometimes the team manages a gala, sometimes nothing. Illustrated graphically, this capacity is a total of 18 goals in the last four games with Chelsea involvement. It’s going to be exciting to see what makeup the blues are showing on Monday night.
Possible line-up Chelsea FC
Sarri is likely to rotate a bit after the successful knockout stage in the Europa League – in Malmö had pausiert one or the other performers. He could lead the following formation against United:
Kepa – Azpilicueta, Rüdiger, David Luiz, Marcos Alonso – Kanté, Jorginho, Barkley – Pedro, Higuain, Hazard
Manchester United
The last three results: 0: 2 vs. Paris St. Germain, 3: 0 vs. FC Fulham, 1-0. Leicester City
Ice-cold coached: Ironically, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Manchester United savior, has to put up with the accusation that he has led his team in the Champions League to the verge of ruin. Because the Red Devils lost in the first knockout round match against PSG (0: 2), was not least due to the tactical inferiority of the Norwegian.
Solskjaer did not manage to find an appropriate answer for over 90 minutes, as did Thomas Tuchel’s tricks: the PSG coach kept Paul Pogba on guard throughout the game, which meant that United’s offensive play came to a virtual standstill. Neither the player nor Solskjaer managed to free the team from this misery, moreover, it failed the team to keep PSG from countering. So stood at the end of a deserved 0-2 defeat in front of home scenery.
The disappointment was subsequently great in Old Trafford: Not only was the quarter-finals almost impossible, it also ended Solskjaers impressive opening series: After eleven games without defeat United lost for the first time a competitive match under the leadership of his new coach. It was not really to be expected – the Red Devils had delivered two convincing performances in advance and defeated FC Fulham (3-0) and Leicester City (1-0). Also against top teams, namely Arsenal London (3: 1) and the Tottenham Hotspur (1: 0) had won the Solskjaer-Eleven victories.
Now an upscale opponent awaits with Chelsea again, and in the red section of Manchester, efforts will be made to forget the humiliation of PSG. Whether this succeeds will depend not least on the last vanquished savior: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Does he find more answers to Sarri’s tactical tricks than to Tuchel?
Possible lineup Manchester United
ManUnited was in full squad against PSG, and there’s plenty to suggest that the same eleven – or at least most of them – are back in the starting eleven against Chelsea. In terms of performance, only a few nominated for a second nomination, but Solskjaer is likely to retain his confidence for the time being:
De Gea – A. Young Bailly, Lindelof, Shaw – Ander Herrera, Matic, Pogba – Lingard, Rashford, Martial
Our Betting Tips and Predictions Explained Chelsea vs Manchester United
Ultimately, the assessment of the betting market should fall on two factors above all: On the one hand enjoy the Blues home advantage, and at Stamford Bridge this privilege is of value. Also and just against United, Chelsea showed in front of home scenery barely conquerable in recent years.
On the other hand, the wave of euphoria on which United rode last week crashed during the week. They crashed into Paris St. Germain, which put an end to the Red Devils with a clear tactical plan and brought the team’s first defeat under coach Solskjaer after eleven unbeaten games. Whether the team immediately succeeds in returning to previous performance seems uncertain.
In contrast, again is a Chelsea FC, who successfully completed his dress rehearsal (2-1 vs. Malmö), but before had one of the most serious defeats in club history conceded: 0: 6 against Manchester City.
However, one should not make the Feher, City Rival United in a squad with the Sky Blues to believe a renewed collapse seems more or less excluded – instead, the opposite can be assumed: Chelsea is seen over the entire season, the much more consistent team, whereas United first still has to prove, from which wood it is carved.
Betting Tips: Victory for Chelsea
Odds: 2.20
