Chelsea vs Manchester United LIVE: Latest Premier League team news and line-ups as Marcus Rashford on bench

Cole Palmer has been involved in 21 Premier League goals for Chelsea this season, scoring 13 and assisting eight.

Only Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink (32 in 2000-01) and Diego Costa (23 in 2014-15) have been involved in more in their debut campaign for the Blues.

Manchester United have won more games (80) and have a higher win percentage (59.7%) in the month of April than any other side in Premier League history.

Chelsea are in the top three teams for the average number of big chances created per game in the Premier League, yet are 14th for scoring those big chances, with a 37.5% ratio.

Meanwhile, Manchester United faced 81 shots across their three league fixtures in March: 27 versus Manchester City, 23 versus Everton and 31 versus Brentford.

The poster boy for Boehlynomics will be back at Stamford Bridge. Not Todd Boehly himself, and not merely because, after two seasons of hubristic failure, he is keeping a lower profile these days.

But Mason Mount, sold to Manchester United for £55m of pure profit – in the Financial Fair Play lexicon that Boehly has helped bring to a wider audience – which, in a world of amortisation of transfer fees over several years, permitted Chelsea to spend many times as much; from an accounting perspective anyway.

Meanwhile, Mount returns on Thursday with his new employers. He has a solitary goal for Manchester United while Cole Palmer, the Mancunian who could be presented as his replacement, has 16 goals and 12 assists in his relatively brief Chelsea career. All that from a player signed for less than the Londoners banked for Mount. It is an advertisement of Boehly’s brilliance.

Manchester United have won just one of their last nine Premier League away games against London sides, losing four of the most recent six.

Is that a positive sign for Chelsea?

Chelsea have conceded 47 league goals this season which is as many as in the entirety of the 2022-23 campaign. Will they be sturdy in defence tonight or can Manchester United rip through them?

Manchester United have suffered 11 top-flight defeats this season, one short of equalling the Premier League club record of 12 in a single campaign: 12 in 2013-14 and 2021-22.

Chelsea’s only defeat in their last 15 home games in all competitions came in the league against Wolves in February. They have won 10 and drawn four since then.

Mauricio Pochettino names an unchanged Chelsea side from the one that drew with Burnley at the weekend.

Erik ten Hag, meanwhile, makes three changes to the Manchester United team. Marcus Rashford is dropped to the bench as Harry Maguire, Casemiro and Antony come in to the side.

Chelsea XI: Petrovic; Gusto, Disasi, Badiashile, Cucurella; Caicedo, Fernandez, Gallagher; Palmer, Jackson, Mudryk

Man Utd XI: Onana; Wan-Bissaka, Varane, Maguire, Dalot; Casemiro, Mainoo; Antony, Fernandes, Garnacho; Hojlund