Man United v Newcastle reside: Premier League updates, stats
Man United host Newcastle this night. Get all of the staff information right here…
Manchester United will hope to place Sunday’s defeat at Aston Villa – and a prolonged listing of absentees – behind them after they host Newcastle tonight.
Ruben Amorim’s aspect performed effectively at Villa Park final weekend however a scarcity of high quality in each containers noticed them go down 2-1.
They may even need to do with out captain Bruno Fernandes for a number of weeks because of harm. That and AFCON would recommend it’s a good time for Newcastle to play them.
The Magpies are eleventh after an underwhelming first half of the season.
Solely three groups have taken fewer factors away within the 2025/26 prime flight and supervisor Eddie Howe will hope for a robust efficiency.
MAN UNITED TEAM NEWS
Casemiro is on the market after suspension in United’s midfield however Kobbie Mainoo is injured.
Centre-backs Harry Maguire (thigh) and Matthijs de Ligt (again) are out with short-term accidents. Midfielder Amad Diallo is with the Ivory Coast on the Africa Cup of Nations 2025, the place wideman Noussair Mazraoui is representing Morocco and ahead Bryan Mbeumo is taking part in for Cameroon.
Man United: Lammens; Dalot, Heaven, Martinez, Shaw, Dorgu; Casemiro, Ugarte, Mount, Cunha; Sesko
NEWCASTLE TEAM NEWS
Newcastle are unchanged from the staff that drew 2-2 with Chelsea on the weekend.
Defenders Dan Burn (ribs/punctured lung), Kieran Trippier (hamstring), Sven Botman (again), Tino Livramento (knee) and Jamaal Lascelles (knee) stay out injured.
Newcastle: Ramsdale; Miley, Schar, Thiaw, Corridor; Guimaraes, Tonali, Ramsey; Murphy, Gordon, Woltemade
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Manchester United v Newcastle stats
- That is the primary Boxing Day in Premier League historical past to see as little as one recreation being performed and is between the staff with probably the most Boxing Day wins within the competitors (United, 22) and the aspect with the joint-most Boxing Day defeats (Newcastle, 16)
- United have misplaced 4 of their final 5 Premier League video games towards Newcastle (W1) – as many as they did of their earlier 38 within the fixture (W25 D9)
- They’ve gained all three of their Premier League Boxing Day video games towards Newcastle, all underneath totally different managers – 4-3 in 2012 (Alex Ferguson), 3-1 in 2014 (Louis van Gaal) and 4-1 in 2019 (Ole Gunnar Solskjaer)
- All of their final three Premier League matches performed between Christmas and New Yr have been defeats – as many as they suffered of their earlier 43 video games between Boxing Day and New Yr’s Eve (W32 D8 L3)
- Within the seven Premier League video games when Bruno has not been of their beginning line-up because the 2022/23 marketing campaign, United have misplaced six instances, drawn as soon as and scored a complete of 4 objectives
- Newcastle did the league double over Manchester United final season, together with a 2-0 win on this precise fixture
- They final accomplished consecutive wins at Outdated Trafford in March 1935 and final made it three straight wins towards them in January 1922
- The Magpies have gained their final two away league matches performed between Christmas and New Yr, beating Leicester on Boxing Day 2022 and United on December 30 final yr. They’d gained two of their earlier 34 away league video games performed between Boxing Day and New Yr’s Eve (D6 L26)
- Nick Woltemade has scored seven Premier League objectives this season – the one German gamers to web extra usually of their debut marketing campaign within the competitors are Jurgen Klinsmann in 1994/95 (20), Lukas Podolski in 2012/13 (11) and Andre Schurrle in 2013/14 (8)
- Howe has gained seven of his 13 Boxing Day league video games as a supervisor (D3 L3), together with all 5 outdoors of the highest flight as Bournemouth and Burnley supervisor between 2009 and 2014, though he has a 25% win ratio in such video games within the Premier League (P8 W2 D3 L3)
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