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Sporting Index’s season points index suggest that United will wrestle the title back from the West London outfit, although that could change if Chelsea manage to beat them at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. United don’t have a great recent record at the Bridge, losing five and drawing three of the past eight contests there. Spread bettors who are on United’s side in the long-term season markets will take more encouragement from the fact that United are now unbeaten in 21 Premier League games and a win this weekend would push them six points clear of Chelsea with a game in hand.This is the first real test of Carlo Ancelotti’s career at Stamford Bridge and his team certainly aren’t playing with the confidence they have shown over the past year and a half. Goals have been a problem and spread sellers will be pl toro lawnmowers eased that the Blues haven’t scored more than one match goal in their last seven league games. They haven’t exactly been haemorrhaging goals at the other end, but it has to be a worry for their followers on the spreads that they have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last eight league games.Spread goals buyers will shudder when they discover that only two of Chelsea’s last 12 league games have produced three goals. Spread sellers on the other hand will be delighted and will take even greater heart from the fact that six of the Blues’ last seven home games against Big Four opposition have seen no more than two goals, as have six of the last ten meetings between them and United.Sir Alex Ferguson will be thrilled with his team’s current position and will be hoping to compound Chelsea’s misery on Sunday.