The atmosphere will be fiery Stamford Bridge this weekend when Chelsea
host Manchester United's arrival. The game itself is like a game of love and
hate for the guests are now coached by former Blues idol, Jose Mourinho.
Mourinho does have wonderful memories with the Blues in the two periods
of his coaching. The Portuguese coach has become a successful coach offered
three Premier League titles and become one of the most successful coaches in
their history.
However, last season became the nadir for a Mourinho in his career with
Chelsea. Mourinho should willingly go back feel firings at two different
periods because he failed to bring the Blues to the top flight after a season
before becoming a champion.
The return of Mourinho to Stamford Bridge is certainly a main beam. On
the one hand, Mourinho is clearly a hero for supporters of the Blues, but on
the other hand not a few Chelsea fans were disappointed by Mourinho after what
happened last season.
However it all is past.
This season Chelsea have a new coach who provides fresh air to the
passion and spirit that is always shown in every moment on the sidelines.
Antonio Conte brought a lot of hope to restore the Blues into a top Premier
League team.
Capital The Blues was pretty neat to meet this match. Courage Conte
implement game systems that became his idol was the turning point of travel of
the Blues. Since he changed the game system to play three defenders in the
back, the Blues more solid and powerful. As a result, the Blues were able to
win the final two games and not conceding a single goal.
The only miss Chelsea ahead of this match was probably the news that
captain John Terry back suffered an ankle injury. But without Terry, Conte
showed they remain a solid team and well organized.
Without Terry, Conte seems to be little smile of relief with the return
Willian in the team. The Brazilian winger missed the last match after his
mother's death. Willian is expected to replace the role undertaken Pedro last
week.
From the camp Manchester United. The visitors were undergoing a grueling
schedule and not in their favor. During this week, Paul Pogba and friends must
undergo three games with a very tight preparation.
But lucky coach Jose Mourinho has a depth of squad that qualified.
Although confronted with busy schedules, rotations Mourinho ran smoothly when
seeing a 4-1 win them over Fenerbahce in Europa League recently, where he
played a lot of players who had only become a backup.
Facing Chelsea is certainly not the time for Mourinho to rotate his
players. The best composition will clearly show Mourinho. That means it is
probable names like Wayne Rooney, Anthony Martial, Michael Carrick to Matteo
Darmian will return to the bench to make room on Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Marcus
Rashford, Marouane Fellaini and Antonio Valencia returned to the starting
line-up.
The only concern Mourinho is among the main conditions of the central
defender, Chris Smalling. The England international limped off against
Fenerbahce because of a muscle problem. Mourinho has already confirmed that it
is likely absent if Smalling could not recover in time this weekend.
While waiting for hot games this weekend, there's no harm in listening
to the approximate line up, both teams stats and predictions typical Bola.net
below.
ESTIMATED
COMPOSITION OF PLAYERS
Chelsea (3-4-3): Courtois; Cahill, Azpilicueta, Luiz; Moses, Matic,
Kante, Alonso; Willian, Costa, Hazard.
Manchester United (4-2-3-1): De Gea; Valencia, Bailly, Blind, Shaw;
Fellaini, Herrera; Martial, Pogba, Rashford; Ibrahimovic.
HEAD TO HEAD
CHELSEA VS MANCHESTER UNITED:
07/02/2016 Chelsea 1-1 Manchester United
12/29/2015 Manchester United 0-0 Chelsea
18/04/2015 Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
10/26/2014 Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea
01/19/2014 Chelsea 3-1 Manchester United
5 LAST MATCH
MANCHESTER UNITED
10/21/2016 Manchester United 4-1 Fenerbahçe
18/10/2016 Liverpool 0-0 Manchester United
02/10/2016 Manchester United 1-1 Stoke City
30/09/2016 Manchester United 1-0 Zorya
09/24/2016 Manchester United 4-1 Leicester City
PREDICTION
Chelsea and Manchester United are two clubs that are very well organized
for both coached by a coach who is very attentive to all the details. Not just
in line behind which are the core strengths of the two teams, but also in the
line of attack they are very organized and have the same world-class
goalkeeper.
See the note, the editorial Bolanet predicts that there will be plenty
of goals in this match and both teams will play 1-1.
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