I will take personally a higher handicap for this one. In short, a top team in huge form at home against a mediocre team who have just changed a manager, but the problems of Man Utd lie in team building, not especially that much in match managing itself.

The xG-data suggests Chelsea have been only the 3rd best team in England even if they top the league, but being narrowly behind City and Liverpool is not really a shame, is it? And also their form is massively good, since losing to Juventus in September they are 8-2-0 in all competitions, with a goal difference of 28-3! Also the loss to Juventus was well covered midweek with the 4-0 win, and the latest of those matches have been without their best striker Lukaku who is set to return today to starting lineup!

There are a few absentees also at Chelsea,

N'Golo Kanté and Ben Chilwell are doubts and for sure Mateo Kovacic will miss the game along with Kai Havertz.

The United problems have been discussed for some years, and to sum it up I would say that they are a bunch of good individuals, but a poor team with little cohesion and team effort. A bit like PSG, they have their stars but very little anything else, and the sacking of poor manager will not have effect just yet as today they miss a lot of their key players.

Defenders Harry Maguire, Raphaël Varane and Luke Shaw are out. From the attacking pieces and midfield they will have to to do without Paul Pogba, Edinson Cavani, Fred and Mason Greenwood.

Naturally on paper their lineup still is a decent one, but as Ronaldo upfront is rather useless without good service into the box, and a lot relies on Sancho's abilitity to carry the ball. The defense looks very leaky with the players available.

So far United have conceded 21 goals in the league, and the performance data confirms it to be just fair. Only Norwich and Newcastle have conceded more! They did win their CL midweek game in Spain by 0-2, but they were totally outplayed by Villarreal until they were offered a goal chance by the Villarreal defense. Errors like that are not going to be repeated today.

I see Chelsea scoring 2-3 goals here easily, and surely it is enough for a home win! The glory days of United under Rangnick will come only in the future, not today.

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我个人认为这是一个更高的障碍。简而言之，一支状态良好的顶级球队主场迎战一支刚刚换了主教练的平庸球队，但曼联的问题在于团队建设，而不是比赛管理本身。

xg数据显示切尔西在英格兰排名第三，即使他们在联赛中排名第一，但仅仅落后于曼城和利物浦并不是一个耻辱，不是吗?而且他们的状态也非常好，自从9月输给尤文图斯后，他们在所有比赛中都是8-2-0，净胜球28-3!此外，输给尤文图斯的比赛在周中4-0的胜利中得到了充分的报道，最近的几场比赛中，他们最好的前锋卢卡库将在今天回到首发阵容中。

切尔西也有一些球员缺席，

恩戈洛Kanté和本·奇尔维尔对此表示怀疑，可以肯定的是科瓦奇和凯·哈弗茨将会错过这场比赛。

曼联的问题已经讨论了好几年了，总而言之，我想说的是他们是一群优秀的个人，但他们是一支缺乏凝聚力和团队努力的糟糕的队伍。有点像巴黎圣日耳曼，他们有自己的球星，但除此之外什么都没有，解雇糟糕的教练还不会有什么效果，因为今天他们失去了很多关键球员。

捍卫者哈里·马奎尔，Raphaël·瓦兰和卢克·肖出局。在进攻和中场，他们将缺少博格巴，卡瓦尼，弗雷德和格林伍德。

当然，理论上他们的阵容还是很不错的，但是如果c罗没有在禁区内提供好的发球，他的前场就毫无用处，这很大程度上取决于桑丘的带球能力。球员都不在时，防守看起来漏洞很大。

到目前为止，曼联已经在联赛中丢了21个球，表现数据证明这是公平的。只有诺维奇和纽卡斯尔的失球更多!他们确实在周中与西班牙的比赛中以0-2赢得了冠军杯，但是他们完全被比利亚雷亚尔打败了，直到比利亚雷亚尔的防守给了他们一个进球的机会。像那样的错误今天不会再发生了。

我看到切尔西在这里轻松地进了2-3个球，当然这足以让他们在主场获胜!在朗尼克的领导下，曼联的辉煌只会在未来到来，而不是今天。

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