Manchester United vs Everton: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head – BBC Sport

Manchester United vs Everton: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head – BBC Sport

  • Manchester United have won their last four Premier League games against Everton, most recently between December 1999 and February 2004 (9).

  • Everton have won just one of their last 31 away Premier League games against Manchester United (D8 L22), winning 1-0 in December 2013.

  • Manchester United have won 41 Premier League games against Everton, more than any other team has beaten another in the history of the competition.

  • There have been fewer goals scored in the team’s Premier League game this season than in Manchester United (26). Only Southampton (9), Crystal Palace and Everton (10) have scored fewer goals than the Red Devils (13), while only Liverpool (8) and Arsenal (12) have conceded fewer goals (13).

  • Everton’s last two Premier League games ended 0-0 – only once in their league history have there been three goalless draws in a row, in February 1982.

  • Everton have failed to score in more Premier League games this season than any other team (6), while only Liverpool (6) and Manchester United (5) have conceded more goals than the Toffees (4). Everton have already had three 0-0 draws this season, most recently in 2015/16 (4).

  • Manchester United have scored 13 goals with an xG of 18.3 in the Premier League this season, around five goals fewer than the quality of their chances would suggest. No team performs better compared to their xG than the Red Devils (-5.3).

  • This is Ruben Amorim’s first home league game as Manchester United manager. Since the start of last season, as coach of Sporting CP, the Portuguese has won all 22 of his home league games with a cumulative score of 72-13.

  • Marcus Rashford – who scored Manchester United’s first goal in the last game under Ruben Amorim – has been involved in five goals in his last seven Premier League games against Everton (2 goals, 3 assists) and scored one goal in his last two games . He is just two goals away from becoming the sixth player to score 50 Premier League goals for the Red Devils at Old Trafford.

  • Including crosses, only Andreas Pereira (103) has made more passes into the opposition penalty area in the Premier League this season than Everton’s Dwight McNeil (101). McNeil’s 30 chances to score this season are almost twice as many as any other Toffees player (Ashley Young, 16).

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