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Manchester United vs Southampton

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Old Trafford

Date: 16th January 2025

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

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).

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

April 5, 2025
Everton 12:30 Arsenal
Crystal Palace 15:00 Brighton & Hov…
Ipswich Town 15:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
West Ham United 15:00 AFC Bournemouth
Aston Villa 17:30 Nottingham Forest
April 6, 2025
Brentford 14:00 Chelsea
Fulham 14:00 Liverpool
Tottenham Hotspur 14:00 Southampton
Manchester United 16:30 Manchester City
April 7, 2025
Leicester City 20:00 Newcastle United
April 12, 2025
Manchester City 12:30 Crystal Palace
Brighton & Hov… 15:00 Leicester City
Nottingham Forest 15:00 Everton
Southampton 15:00 Aston Villa
Arsenal 17:30 Brentford
April 13, 2025
Chelsea 14:00 Ipswich Town
Liverpool 14:00 West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers 14:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Newcastle United 16:30 Manchester United
April 14, 2025
AFC Bournemouth 20:00 Fulham

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 30 22 7 1 70 27 +43 73
2 Arsenal 30 17 10 3 55 25 +30 61
3 Nottingham Forest 30 17 6 7 50 35 +15 57
4 Chelsea 30 15 7 8 54 37 +17 52
5 Manchester City 30 15 6 9 57 40 +17 51
6 Newcastle United 29 15 5 9 49 39 +10 50
7 Aston Villa 30 13 9 8 44 45 -1 48
8 Brighton & Hov… 30 12 11 7 48 45 +3 47
9 Fulham 30 12 9 9 44 40 +4 45
10 AFC Bournemouth 30 12 8 10 49 38 +11 44
11 Brentford 30 12 5 13 51 47 +4 41
12 Crystal Palace 29 10 10 9 37 34 +3 40
13 Manchester United 30 10 7 13 37 41 -4 37
14 Tottenham Hotspur 30 10 4 16 55 44 +11 34
15 Everton 30 7 13 10 32 37 -5 34
16 West Ham United 30 9 7 14 33 50 -17 34
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 30 8 5 17 41 58 -17 29
18 Ipswich Town 30 4 8 18 30 63 -33 20
19 Leicester City 30 4 5 21 25 67 -42 17
20 Southampton 30 2 4 24 22 71 -49 10

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