Chelsea against Man United is always going to be a big game but when it is in the quarter-finals of the Champions League it moves onto a different level again.
The Blues record against Man United in recent years has been very strong with six wins, four draws and no defeats in the last 10 games played at Stamford Bridge.
The most recent of those wins came last month when David Luiz and Frank Lampard scored the goals in a 2-1 come-from-behind victory after Wayne Rooney had put the visitors in front in the first half. The Blues kicked off at odds of 2.25 but those odds had eased to 6.00 at half time. They could still have been backed at 3.90 before the winning goal in the 79th minute.
On Wednesday night the pre-match odds are a little shorter at 2.15. They have even come in over the past seven days as confidence builds that this could be Chelsea's year in Europe. The most likely final at Wembley on May 28th is between Chelsea and Barcelona at odds of 4.15.
Five of the six home wins in the last ten games against United have been by a single goal. Man United also tend to play very tight away from home in Europe with five of their last eight producing one goal or less. Even in domestic action three of their only four clean sheets in the Barclays Premier League have ended in scoreless draws pointing to the fact that is what they set out to achieve.
The best bet then may be to go for Chelsea to win by a single-goal margin at odds of 3.30, or to win by 1-0 at odds of 7.00. The cautious among us may choose to take a little insurance against a 0-0 draw at odds of 8.50.
On the goal-scoring front, Didier Drogba found the net against Stoke on Saturday while Fernando Torres has a great scoring record against United.Both can be backed at 6.00 to open the scoring. Nicolas Anelka though has been the main man in Europe with seven goals already in this campaign and is the best bet at 7.00.
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