The Blues welcome United to Stamford Bridge on Easter Monday for their FA Cup quarter-final replay after the original tie ended in a 2-2 draw. Twenty-two points separate league-leaders United and Benitez's Chelsea and the Spaniard has pin-pointed the Red Devils' attacking options as a reason for their domestic dominance.Chelsea came from two goals down to earn a replay at Stamford Bridge, with Eden Hazard and Ramires scoring the second half to cancel out early efforts from Hernandez and Rooney.With Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernandez at his disposal, United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has already said he has a better strikeforce than his treble-winners of 1999. Benitez said: "The reason United are top of the table is they have a very strong squad.Benitez feels his side played well enough to win the game at the first time of asking and is now counting the cost of another fixture that will see the Blues play five games in a two-week period.He continued: "Just analyse the four strikers they have and we only have two. They have four all at a very good level and we only have two at that level.United are top of the table but I thought we were much better than them in the first game. We can compete but when you playing two games in three days, for months, it isn't easy so I think we are doing well in the situation we are in.It was a problem when he had just [Fernando] Torres but now we have Demba [Ba] so that is two attacking options. We have offensive players of quality.
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