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Manchester United v Chelsea match statistics

Chelsea's visit to Old Trafford to take on Manchester United could be a decisive fixture in the Premier League championship race. Chelsea are winless on the road in their last eight visits to a Big Four side.

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  • Six of the last eight meetings between Manchester United and Chelsea have been drawn, as have 11 of their last 24 in the league (including seven of the last 14 at Old Trafford).
  • Chelsea are the only team to have won more Premier League games against Manchester United than they have lost (Chelsea v Man Utd W10-D14-L9).
  • Manchester United have scored more than one goal in only one of their 16 games against Chelsea in the Abramovich era — in their 2-0 win in this fixture last season — netting just 11 times overall.
  • Despite just 28 goals being scored in those 16 matches (12/16 -2.5 goals), all but three of them have featured a goal before the break, with the three that didn’t ending goalless.
  • Manchester United are W8-D1-L1 at home against the Big Four (all comps) dating back to the 05/06 season and haven’t conceded a single first-half goal in that time (with all nine in the league 1-0 to United or goalless at the break).
  • Chelsea have won only three of their last 18 against the Big Four (all comps), going W6-D12-L7 since the start of the 06/07 season. They are winless on the road in that time (W0-D4-L4), failing to score in the first half of any of the eight games.
  • In fact, the Blues have been behind at the break in all eight, trailing 1-0 at half-time in seven of them and conceding in the 43rd–45th minute in four of the last five.
  • 14 of the last 15 Big Four games (all comps) have seen both teams score, with 12 of those games ending 1-1 (seven) or 2-1 to the home side (five).
  • In the Abramovich era, Darren Fletcher is the top goalscorer (jointly with Ruud van Nistelrooy on three) in Big Four matches at Old Trafford.
  • Eidur Gudjohnsen was the last Chelsea striker to score away in a Big Four game (04/05 at Man Utd).
  • United have kept seven consecutive clean sheets — their longest run in the Premier League and three short of Chelsea’s record of 10 (04/05).
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