Wolves vs Manchester United

Manchester United have lost four of their last five games in the Premier League, as many defeats as in their previous 15 matches in the competition (W7 D4). Indeed, only Everton and Southampton (both 9) have failed to score in more different games this season than their seven.

Wolves have won successive Premier League games for only the third time in 2024, previously doing so in February and November, while they’ve kept successive clean sheets in the competition for the first time since January last season.

Rúben Amorim is the first Manchester United manager to lose as many as five of his first 10 games in charge of the club in all competitions since Walter Crickmer in January 1932 (6/10).

Having won three of their first five Premier League home games against Man Utd (L2), Wolves are now winless in their last five, losing the last four in a row (D1).

Manchester United have won seven of their last eight Premier League games against Wolves, with the exception being a 1-0 home defeat in January 2022.

In both Premier League and English Football League history, Manchester United have won more games and scored more goals on Boxing Day than any other side (22 wins, 74 goals in the Premier League, 54 wins, 202 goals all time).

Wolves are unbeaten in their last seven Boxing Day league games (W5 D2), having lost 11 of their 14 such games before this (W1 D2). This is only their third Boxing Day match since their return to the Premier League in 2018 (W1 D1).

Manchester United have only failed to score in one of their last 30 Boxing Day league games, a 2-0 loss at Stoke City in 2015. However, they’ve also conceded at least once in each of their last 10 such matches, their longest run without a clean sheet on December 26th.