Fulham vs Manchester United Preview

Fulham vs Manchester United

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Craven Cottage

Date: 26th January 2025

Kick-off time – 19:00 GMT

Fulham will look to record back-to-back wins in the Premier League for the first time since November when they face Manchester United at Craven Cottage this Sunday.

The Cottagers come into this tie on the back of a routine 2-0 win over Leicester City which helped solidify their place in mid-table. However, inconsistency continues to hold Marco Silva’s men back from challenging for Europe so games like this against sides lower in the league table are the types of games they must win to challenge for a place in Europe.

However, this fixture historically has not gone well on paper for the Cottagers as they’ve won just one of the last 18 Premier League H2Hs (D3, L14). Nevertheless, the hosts are tough to beat on their own turf, avoiding defeat in each of their last five home league games, albeit the last four ended in draws.

Fulham have never previously experienced a run of five consecutive Premier League draws at Craven Cottage and Silva will expect to improve on his own poor record against the Red Devils (W3, D1, L8), given that they sit seven points above them in the table.

They will certainly be more rested than United, who battled to a 2-1 win over Rangers in Europe on Thursday thanks to a 92nd-minute winner from Bruno Fernandes. That made it three wins from four matches across all competitions for Ruben Amorim’s men (L1).

However, the nature of their 3-1 defeat to Brighton in the Premier League last week means the pressure has hardly lifted on his squad. The fact that the Red Devils have conceded first in eight of their last nine league matches also means that there are hardly any Manchester United fans who will be confident of their side here, despite the visitors winning each of their last seven league visits to Fulham.

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

February 19, 2025
Aston Villa 20:30 Liverpool
February 21, 2025
Leicester City 21:00 Brentford
February 22, 2025
Everton 13:30 Manchester United
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arsenal 16:00 West Ham United
Fulham 16:00 Crystal Palace
Ipswich Town 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Southampton 16:00 Brighton & Hov…
Aston Villa 18:30 Chelsea
February 23, 2025
Newcastle United 15:00 Nottingham Forest
Manchester City 17:30 Liverpool
February 25, 2025
Brighton & Hov… 20:30 AFC Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 20:30 Aston Villa
Wolverhampton Wanderers 20:30 Fulham
Chelsea 21:15 Southampton
February 26, 2025
Manchester United 20:30 Ipswich Town
Tottenham Hotspur 20:30 Manchester City
Nottingham Forest 20:30 Arsenal
Brentford 20:30 Everton
Liverpool 21:15 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 25 18 6 1 60 24 +36 60
2 Arsenal 25 15 8 2 51 22 +29 53
3 Nottingham Forest 25 14 5 6 41 29 +12 47
4 Manchester City 25 13 5 7 52 35 +17 44
5 AFC Bournemouth 25 12 7 6 44 29 +15 43
6 Chelsea 25 12 7 6 47 34 +13 43
7 Newcastle United 25 12 5 8 42 33 +9 41
8 Fulham 25 10 9 6 38 33 +5 39
9 Aston Villa 25 10 8 7 35 38 -3 38
10 Brighton & Hov… 25 9 10 6 38 38 +0 37
11 Brentford 25 10 4 11 43 42 +1 34
12 Tottenham Hotspur 25 9 3 13 49 37 +12 30
13 Crystal Palace 25 7 9 9 29 32 -3 30
14 Everton 25 7 9 9 27 31 -4 30
15 Manchester United 25 8 5 12 28 35 -7 29
16 West Ham United 25 7 6 12 29 47 -18 27
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 25 5 4 16 35 54 -19 19
18 Ipswich Town 25 3 8 14 23 50 -27 17
19 Leicester City 25 4 5 16 25 55 -30 17
20 Southampton 25 2 3 20 19 57 -38 9

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