Jose Mourinho has a number of injuries but he should be able to welcome back Phil Jones, who was rested against Benfica in light of his recent knee problem.
Marouane Fellaini could make himself available again too following his recovery from a knee injury sustained on international duty with Belgium in October. Michael Carrick is nearing a return after stepping up his solo training this week as he recovers from a calf issue.
Paul Pogba's fitness remains a mystery but he remains unlikely to feature for Chelsea and he has been left out of the France squad. Zlatan Ibrahimovic could be back in the next few weeks having missed seven months due to his ACL injury. Marcos Rojo is still out after suffering the same injury, in the same match back in April.
- Manchester United’s 2-0 victory in their last meeting with Chelsea ended a run of 12 games without a win against them in all competitions. They last won back-to-back meetings with the Blues in September 2011.
- Manchester United have lost more Premier League games (17) and conceded more Premier League goals (66) against Chelsea than they have against any other side in the competition.
- Antonio Conte’s side have already lost as many home Premier League games this season as they did in 2016-17 overall (2).
- Antonio Conte has won 112 points as Chelsea manager in his 48 Premier League games in charge, 11 points fewer than Jose Mourinho had at this point of his Chelsea managerial career (123). Mourinho lost just one of his first 48 Premier League games in charge of the club (W38 D9 L1), but Conte has already lost eight times (W36 D4 L8).
- Romelu Lukaku has scored 15 goals in 59 Premier League games against ‘big six’ opposition, averaging a goal every 295 minutes. His mins per goal ratio against non ‘big six’ opponents is 137 (77 goals in 137 apps).
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