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Chelsea v Manchester United: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key events

34 min Chelsea fart around just outside the Man Utd area, which allows Maguire to boot the ball off Neto and behind for a goalkick.

There’s been a goal at Villa Park. If you don’t want to know who scored, don’t click this bait.

33 min Madueke runs Mazraoui and drives a dangerous low cross that is put behind by Casemiro. His near-post positioning was really good there.

31 min Bruno Fernandes is booked for a late tackle on Caicedo. He tried to kick the ball, missed and booted Caicedo in the shin. No studs showing, hence yellow rather than red. Caicedo accepted Fernandes’s apology.

31 min Chelsea are applying some sustained pressure for the first time, and why not.

30 min “Special shout out to Blair Geddes,” says Simon McMahon. “Broughty centre half, all round good guy, and now North of Tay cup winner.”

29 min Neto’s corner eventually leads to a big penalty appeal when Fernandez’s volley hits the arm of Hojlund a couple of yards away. Hojlund’s arm was slightly away from his body but his proximity to Fernandes means it isn’t a penalty.

28 min Palmer tries to change that with a neat shuffle away from Fernandes and a shot from 20 yards that deflects behind for a corner. Might have been going wide anyway.

27 min Shots on target: Chelsea 0-0 Man Utd. It’s not great.

25 min “Evening Rob,” says Simon McMahon. “In the absence of anything to report where you are, I’m currently watching the North of Tay Amateur Cup Final at Glenesk Park in Dundee, home of Dundee Violet, winners of the Scottish Junior Cup in 1929, between Broughty United AFC and Stobswell AFC.

“It’s been a ding-dong battle, with Broughty taking an early lead, only to be pegged back via a brilliant free-kick from Stobswell. Broughty then went 3-1 up before again conceding, and currently lead 4-2 with about 10 minutes to go. About 300 in attendance, plenty swearing, pints and pies, and that’s just the kids.”

James hits the post!

24 min Diallo is down but it’s not a head injury so Chelsea play on. Madueke’s cross from the left byline is half cleared to James, 22 yards from goal. He watches the bounce carefully and cuts across a beautiful strike that beats Onana and thumps off the outside of the far post. Lovely technique.

22 min Dorgu plays a sharp square pass form the left towards Mount on the edge of the area. He slips in the act of shooting and the ball veers away from a throw-in on the far side; the home fans enjoyed that.

20 min More groans as a pass from Enzo Fernandez goes astray. Chelsea need a goal – or even a chance – to change the mood.

19 min Sanchez slices a pass that almost goes out for a throw-in near the corner flag. Chelsea are weirdly nervous.

No goal! Chelsea 0-0 Man Utd

Maguire’s shoulder was offside so the goal is ruled out. It was Spandex-tight but it looked off to the naked eye and the semi-automated technology confirmed as much.

Chelsea didn’t manage to get out following that Fernandes corner. United recycled possession and Fernandes whipped a beautiful ball into the middle from the left wing. Maguire met it on the half-volley, 12 yards out, and slammed it past Sanchez. Cracking finish.

There’s a VAR check for offside though. I think he might be just off.

GOAL! Chelsea 0-1 Man Utd (Maguire 16)

The big man puts Manchester United ahead!

Manchester United’s Harry Maguire sidefoots the ball home. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

15 min Dorgu bursts down the left to win the first corner of the game. Fernanes’s inswinger is headed away at the near post, and on we go.

13 min After a promising start to the game, it’s been a scruffy, stop-start little period. Nothing to report.

12 min Maguire is fine.

11 min Maguire is down after being accidentally caught in the face by George, so the referee stops play. The crowd boo because head injuries are so passe.

7 min It’s been a bright start from both teams. Man Utd are seeing plenty of the ball at the moment.

5 min: Chance for Chelsea! Palmer threads a wonderful through pass that is shinned over on the run by Madueke, 10 yards from goal. I think he was offside so it wouldn’t have counted, but the pass from Palmer was exquisite.

3 min A delicious first-time cross from Fernandes on the right is heading towards Mount at the far post when James stretches to boot the ball somewhere, anywhere. It loops up and is claimed by Sanchez. That was a really important touch from James, without which Mount would have had a stooping header at goal from about eight yards.

1 min Peep peep! Man Utd kick off from left to right as we watch, and Mason Mount’s first touch is greeted with a paean to Joe Root.

“I never thought it could get worse than the Moyes Season,” says Christopher Faherty. “Then I never thought it could get worse than The Ragnick Interrignum. Now we’re here. Further to fall?”

Always.

“‘We will retain Amorim even if we do not win the Big Vase’ (more alarming when they play Spurs) is not a statement that boosts someone’s confidence, does it?” says Krishnamoorthy V. “What must one old Scot be thinking these days? Should he come back for an encore?”

He’s probably thinking: ‘You think this lot are bad, you should have seen my team in 1989-90.’ I can’t get away from the fact that, had modern values prevailed in the late 1980s, Alex Ferguson would have won precisely no trophies at Manchester United, and he’d probably still be plain old Alex Ferguson. We’ve all gone mad. I went mad in 2006 so I can’t really criticise anyone.

These gentlemen are about to take the field.

Chelsea (4-2-3-1) Sanchez; James, Tosin, Colwill, Cucurella; Caicedo, Enzo; Neto, Palmer, Madueke; George.
Substitutes: Jorgensen, Bettinelli, Gusto, Acheampong, Chalobah, Anselmino, Badiashile, Lavia, Dewsbury-Hall.

Man Utd (3-4-2-1) Onana; Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw; Mazraoui, Casemiro, Fernandes, Dorgu, Amad, Mount; Hojlund.
Substitutes: Bayindir, Amass, Fredricson, Heaven, Collyer, Eriksen, Mainoo, Ugarte, Garnacho.

Referee Chris Kavanagh.

There are some games, like now – the one or two, three games we have – that tactics are important but it’s also other aspects. That is players taking responsibility and also showing desire to bring this club – we said many times – where it has to be.

The Joy of Six: Chelsea v Manchester United

This one’s from the archive, but Scott Murray is always worth reading.

Ron Harris had many qualities, but subtlety was not one of them. Here he is heaving into view from way out, belabouring George Best’s ankles with a proper old-school reducer. It’s a textbook piece of uberviolence – a vicious sliding tackle perfectly timed and executed, as graceful as brutality can ever get – but it was all for naught. Best ignored Chopper’s galoot-isms, somehow retained his balance – despite being kicked almost horizontal in mid-air – and continued his run.
Beauty and the beast. As the willowy, long-haired Best sashays round the keeper and calmly slots home, as androgynous as you like, Harris, bloated with testosterone, picks himself heavily off the turf.

Enzo Maresca’s pre-match thoughts

[On see Tyrique George making his first Premier League start] He’s a young talent who can give up lots of energy. We need to attack in behind and he can do that.
[On leaving out Chalobah and Lavia] It’s just the gameplan. We try to pick the best XI for each game and hopefully we’ve done that tonight.
Two games to go. It’s just on us; hopefully we can the first game tonight and then focus on the next one.

Ruben Amorim on his team selection

We have five days to prepare for the final. We are focussed on this game. Sometimes the best way to prepare for a final is to play and to compete; we’ve had problems in that area so I want to see the team compete. They need the time to prove they are ready for the final.
The biggest [injury] problems we’ve had this season have been in training – Amad, Kobbie Mainoo – so you never know where the danger is.
I saw so many good things against West Ham but I don’t want to share them when we are losing games because it’s hard for our fans to understand. I am still confident. I know what to do for this team. This is not the moment for that. This is the moment to share the pain with our fans.
People don’t understand how things are changing in Carrington. We need to finish this season and then let’s see.

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Team news

Tyrique George makes his first Premier League start, covering for the suspended Nicolas Jackson, as flagged by ‘Scoops’ Steinberg below. Reece James and Tosin Adarabioyo also come into the side in place of Romeo Lavia and Trevor Chalobah.

Manchester United’s team is stronger than expected, with maybe nine of the XI that will start the Europa League final on Wednesday. There are five changes from the tame defeat at home to West Ham on Sunday: Andre Onana, Victor Lindelof, Harry Maguire, Casemiro and Patrick Dorgu replace Altay Bayindir, the injured Leny Yoro, Manuel Ugarte, Harry Amass and Kobbie Mainoo.

Referee Chris Kavanagh.

Nicolas Jackson’s ridiculous red card against Newcastle leaves Enzo Maresca with a problem in attack. Chelsea have lost their main striker to suspension for the rest of the league season and need to adjust when they host Manchester United. Options are thin on the ground. Christopher Nkunku is unwanted and has been unavailable in recent weeks, the inexperienced Marc Guiu is returning from a hamstring injury and Jadon Sancho is ineligible against his parent club. Sancho would not have played up front but having him available would have meant there was an experienced alternative on the flanks should Maresca have repeated a solution from previous times of need and moved Pedro Neto into a central role. As it is Chelsea will probably have to place their trust in the exciting teenager Tyrique George. Jacob Steinberg