Manchester United have lost four of their last five Premier League games against Newcastle (W1), as many as they had in their previous 38 against the Magpies (W25 D9).<\/p>\n
Newcastle did the league double over Manchester United last season, including a 2-0 win in this exact fixture. They\u2019ve not won consecutive visits to Old Trafford since March 1935, while they last won three in a row against the Red Devils in January 1922.<\/p>\n
Manchester United have won all three of their Premier League Boxing Day games against Newcastle, with all three coming under different managers \u2013 4-3 in 2012 (Ferguson), 3-1 in 2014 (van Gaal) and 4-1 in 2019 (Solskjaer).<\/p>\n
This is the first Boxing Day in Premier League history to see as little as one game being played. It\u2019s between the team with the most Boxing Day wins in the competition (Man Utd, 22) and the team with the joint-most Boxing Day defeats (Newcastle, 16).<\/p>\n
Manchester United have lost their last three Premier League matches played between Christmas and New Year, as many as they lost in their previous 43 games between Boxing Day and New Year\u2019s Eve (W32 D8 L3).<\/p>\n
Newcastle United have won their last two away league matches played between Christmas and New Year, beating Leicester on Boxing Day 2022 and Man Utd on 30 December last year. They had won just two of their previous 34 away league games played between Boxing Day and New Year\u2019s Eve (D6 L26).<\/p>\n
Manchester United have lost 14 Premier League games for the third consecutive calendar year, but the Red Devils haven\u2019t suffered more league defeats in a year since 1989 under Alex Ferguson (18).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Newcastle\u2019s Nick Woltemade has scored seven Premier League goals this season \u2013 the only German players to net more often in their debut campaign in the competition are J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann in 1994-95 (20), Lukas Podolski in 2012-13 (11) and Andr\u00e9 Sch\u00fcrrle in 2013-14 (8).<\/p>\n
Newcastle manager Eddie Howe has won seven of his 13 Boxing Day league games as a manager (D3 L3) \u2013 he won all five outside of the top-flight as Bournemouth and Burnley manager between 2009 and 2014, though only has a 25% win ratio in the Premier League (P8 W2 D3 L3).<\/p>\n
Manchester United have failed to win any of their seven Premier League games since the 2022-23 campaign without Bruno Fernandes in the starting lineup, losing six of those (D1). The Red Devils have netted just four goals across those matches. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have lost four of their last five Premier League games against Newcastle (W1), as many as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-370590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}