Manchester United vs Chelsea LIVE stream: Premier League group information and line-ups with Marcus Rashford on the bench

Frank Lampard mentioned Mason Mount would signal a brand new contract at Chelsea “in an ideal world” however accepted the state of affairs will not be so easy for the England midfielder.

“It’s a hard one for me to comment on because I’m not inside Mason’s head and from the club’s point of view my role is clearly what it is,” mentioned Lampard, who takes his facet to face Manchester United at Old Trafford on Thursday.

“In the practical sense it’s completely between both sides on that front. I’m not surprised because this is football. Does everyone know that I really like Mason Mount as a lad and as a football player? Yes, sure, of course they do.

“I wish him the best personally and sitting here with my Chelsea top on now, I’ve seen what Mason has delivered at this club. But we’ll see.”

The English midfielder is offered for switch since he has not signed a brand new cope with his contract up subsequent yr, and Chelsea needing to drastically trim their squad anyway.

While that is set to be a disappointment to Stamford Bridge supporters who worth the membership bringing by younger gamers, it’s exactly this that has confirmed engaging to United to go along with Mount’s skills.

At £55 million, the 24-year-old is seen as low-cost for an English worldwide of his achievement, and is taken into account an improve on what United have in that space. Managers who play a urgent model like Erik ten Hag particularly worth Mount for his understanding of that strategy and his disciplined execution.

Chelsea have named their youngest ever Premier League group tonight, with 9 gamers aged beneath 24.

They are solely the third group in Premier League historical past to start out with 9 gamers aged beneath 24, in accordance with Opta.

Erik ten Hag has insisted that spending cash with no technique is a recipe for failure as he thought-about Chelsea’s season and the opportunity of a takeover at Manchester United.

Chelsea have dedicated round £600 million for 16 new signings since Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital purchased the membership a yr in the past however the 2021 Champions League winners go to Old Trafford on Thursday sure to complete within the backside half of the desk.

Ten Hag has spent round £200m in his reign however United, who got here sixth final season, will probably be assured a top-four end in the event that they keep away from defeat in both of their final two video games of the season.

A biography of Manchester United’s first genuinely nice supervisor, Sir Matt Busby, is entitled ‘A Strange Kind of Glory’. More than half a century after Busby final managed United, virtually 30 years since his dying, considered one of his successors, Erik ten Hag, is getting ready to an odd form of success.

A degree is required to make the Dutchman the most recent supervisor to comply with in Busby’s footsteps and steer United into the European Cup or Champions League. Factor in a trophy, rendering him the eighth United supervisor to safe main silverware, and his debut season will symbolize a triumph, particularly after the nadir of 2021-22, of a Premier League file low of 58 factors and a objective distinction of zero, of a marketing campaign that ended with six immediately defeats.

A yr on, Ten Hag has rebooted and revived United, writes Richard Jolly.

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When is Manchester United vs Chelsea?

Manchester United vs Chelsea is because of kick off at 8pm BST on Thursday 25 May at Old Trafford in Manchester.

Viewers within the United Kingdom can watch the match stay on Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Main Event, with protection on the channels from 7pm BST. Subscribers can stream the sport by way of Sky Go.

Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag named an unchanged facet as Chelsea arrived at Old Trafford.

The Dutchman caught with the identical group that beat Bournemouth on the weekend and prime scorer Marcus Rashford returned to the bench after lacking latest video games.

Noni Madueke, Mykhailo Mudryk and Carney Chukwuemeka got here in for Chelsea as Thiago Silva, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Raheem Sterling dropped out. The latter was absent from the squad totally on account of a hamstring harm.

Manchester United XI: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Varane, Lindelof, Shaw, Casemiro, Eriksen, Antony, Fernandes, Sancho, Martial

Chelsea XI: Kepa, Azpilicueta, Fofana, Chalobah, Hall, Fernandez, Gallagher, Chukwuemeka, Madueke, Havertz, Mudryk