Manchester United v AFC Bournemouth Match Preview, 04 thg 1, 2023

MATCH FACTS

1. Manchester United have won soccer tips tomorrow seven of their 10 Premier League meetings with Bournemouth (D1 L2), with both defeats against them coming at the Vitality Stadium.

2. Bournemouth have lost eight of their nine away games against Manchester United in all competitions, with the exception being a 1-1 draw in the Premier League in March 2017.

3. Bournemouth have never won away from home in the league against either of the Manchester clubs (D2 L12). Only four teams have ever played more times away from home against United and City without winning in the Football League soccer tips 1x2 : Hull (24), Walsall (16), Gainsborough Trinity (15) and Chesterfield (15).

4. Man Utd have lost their first league game in two of the last three calendar years, as many as they had in the previous 23 (W15 D6). They lost 1-0 at home to Wolves in their first game of 2022, but haven't lost their first match in consecutive years since 1978/1979.

5. Bournemouth have won their first league game in just one of the last 10 calendar years (D6 L3), winning 1-0 at Stoke in 2021.

6. Manchester United have won their last three Premier League home games by an aggregate score of 6-0 – they've not won four in a row without conceding at Old Trafford since a run of six between May and October 2017.

7. Bournemouth have won just eight points in their last 18 away Premier League games (W2 D2 L14), keeping no clean sheets in that 18-game run, conceding 49 times. They’ve shipped 26 goals in just eight away games this season, the second most by a team after their first eight away matches in a Premier League Series Soccer Tips  season, behind only Burnley in 2009-10 (conceded 27).

8. Manchester United have lost three of their last five home Premier League games in January (W2), winning just nine of their 17 games (53%) at Old Trafford in the month since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement. Under Ferguson, they won 81% of their home January matches in the competition (P42 W34 D6 L2).

9. Only six teams have ever won away from home against Manchester United in the Premier League as a newly promoted side but one of those – Norwich City in December 2015 – had current Bournemouth manager Gary O’Neil in their starting XI that day. He could become the third person to win away from home at Old Trafford as a player and manager in the Premier League, along with Steve Clarke (Chelsea as a player, West Brom as manager) and Mark Hughes (Chelsea player, Blackburn manager).

10. Marcus Rashford has been directly involved in seven of Manchester United’s last 10 home Premier League goals (5 goals, 2 assists), scoring in each of his last two such games at Old Trafford. Rashford has never scored in three consecutive league appearances at Old Trafford.