Premier League LIVE: Man United v Man City, Chelsea v Brentford, Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United and more
Manchester United lost the reverse fixture against Man City 3-0 in September. They last failed to score in both league meetings with the Citizens in 1973-74, a campaign that saw them relegated from the top-flight.
Man City have won more Premier League away games against Man Utd than any other visiting side (9), while only Liverpool (41) have scored more goals at Old Trafford than the Citizens (37).
Manchester United have failed to score in four of their last five Premier League home games against Manchester City, including the last two in a row. They’ve not gone 3+ home league games without a goal against the Citizens since a run of four between December 1911 and September 1914.
Manchester United have drawn each of their last three Premier League games, last having a longer run of consecutive draws in September/October 1992 (5).
Manchester City have drawn each of their last three Premier League games, last having a longer run of consecutive draws in October/November 2009 (7). This will be the first meeting between two sides both on a run of 3+ consecutive Premier League draws since February 2001, with Spurs beating Man City 1-0 in that.
Only Bournemouth (16), West Ham United (15) and Chelsea (15) have dropped more points from winning positions in the Premier League this season than Manchester United (14), while Manchester City have dropped four points in their last two games, just one fewer than in their first 19 matches of 2025-26 (5).
This will be Michael Carrick’s second stint as manager at Manchester United, following his three-game spell in November/December 2021 (W2 D1). As a player, Carrick only recorded more wins in the Premier League against Sunderland (16) than he did Manchester City (P24 W13 D3 L8).
Erling Haaland has been involved in more Premier League goals against Man Utd than any other Man City player (11 – 8 goals, 3 assists), having a hand in all three goals on his last appearance at Old Trafford in October 2023 (2 goals, 1 assist in a 3-0 win).
Only against Brighton (8) has Man City’s Phil Foden scored more Premier League goals than he has against Man Utd (7), though just one of his seven strikes against the Red Devils has come at Old Trafford.
Only Erling Haaland (12) and Igor Thiago (11) have been involved in more Premier League goals since the start of November than Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes (10 – 3 goals, 7 assists). Fernandes leads the competition overall for chances created following line-breaking passes (17) and line-breaking passes leading to shots (30) this term.
