Manchester United vs Southampton Preview

Manchester United will look to continue what has been a positive run of results when they welcome bottom-placed Southampton to Old Trafford on Thursday.

The Red Devils hosts the Saints after an impressive 2-2 draw with Liverpool and another positive performance in their FA Cup win over Arsenal last weekend. Those results have given the club a huge boost as they attempt to push themselves into the top half of the table.

However, despite those results, Manchester United are winless inside 90 minutes in their last seven games in all competitions. Having taken points against Liverpool and Arsenal, manager Ruben Amorim, and indeed captain Bruno Fernandes, have challenged them to get the same result against less illustrious opponents and there’s no greater test of that than the Premier League’s basement boys, against whom United are unbeaten against in the last 15 PL H2Hs (W7, D8).

Still, the fact that United have lost their last three home league games—their last streak of four in the top flight came way back in 1930—suggests that there could be another disappointing outing.

Meanwhile, Southampton will look to build on their brilliant 3-0 win over Swansea in the FA Cup when they face Manchester United on Thursday.

That win was the Saints’ first since early November and was also Ivan Jurić’s first victory in the dugout after three consecutive losses under his leadership in the Premier League.

Meanwhile, a whopping ten points from safety pre-round suggests that there is so much work to be done for Juric. That gap will only grow if Southampton’s astonishing 17-match winless away run in the Premier League continues much longer (D4, L13).

That’s the second-longest such streak in the club’s top-flight history. However, Old Trafford has become a friendlier venue for them of late, as after losing 13 of their first 14 Premier League visits here, the Saints have lost just three of the last ten (W2, D5).

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