| League position: | 13 | Home league form: | LWWL | Overall league form: | LLLLWXWL | Formation: | 4-3-3 |
| | Line-ups | Odysseas VLACHODIMOS | 6 | 1 | 7 | Shay GIVEN | Kyle WALKER | 7½ | 2 | 7 | Aleksei BEREZUTSKY | (c)Giorgio CHIELLINI | 7½ | 3 | 6½ | Joe CHALMERS | Tomás HÜBSCHMAN | 7 | 4 | 7½ | Joe ALLEN | Daniele DE ROSSI | 6½ | 5 | 8 | Harry MAGUIRE | CÉSAR González NAVAS | 6½ | 6 | 6½ | Adrian MARIAPPA | GÖKHAN Töre | 6 | 7 | 7 | Agustín ALLIONE | Youri TIELEMANS | 6 | 8 | 6½ | Jesse LINGARD | (p)Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC | 7½ | 9 | 6½ | Luca TONI(c,p) | (f)Imran BUNJAKU | 5½ | 10 | 6½ | Callum McGREGOR(f) | Sotiris NINIS | 6½ | 11 | 7 | Danny INGS | | Manager | | Oleg KUZMIN | | 12 | | Jonathan WILLIAMS | Dmitri VOLKOTRUB | | 13 | | Lee GRANT | Cristian ANSALDI | | 14 | | Barry ROBSON | Avtandil BRATCHULI | 6 | 15 | | Curtis DAVIES | Ashley COLE | | 16 | | Billy JONES |
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| | | League position: | 11 | Away league form: | WXXW | Overall league form: | XLWWXXXW | Formation: | 4-3-3 |
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