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Who: Manchester United vs Everton
What: English Premier League
Where: Old Trafford, Manchester
When: Monday astatine 8pm (20:00 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 5pm (17:00 GMT) successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.
Manchester United big Everton and are looking to widen a five-game unbeaten tally nether Ruben Amorim though they person drawn their past 2 against Nottingham Forest and Spurs.
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A triumph could spot them determination into the apical 4 with Bryan Mbeumo’s scoring streak a cardinal origin successful their caller resurgence.
But Everton are conscionable 3 points beneath Man United successful a congested table, and David Moyes volition beryllium other motivated to get a effect astatine his erstwhile club.
Happyish day for Amorim
Monday’s fixture astatine Old Trafford marks a twelvemonth to the time since Amorim’s archetypal lucifer successful charge.
Amorim’s reign arsenic United manager started with a 1-1 gully distant to Ipswich, and since then, the Portuguese brag has experienced plentifulness of lows successful complaint of the English shot giants, including finishing 15th successful the array and failing to suffice for Europe.
But caller results person been encouraging, and Amorim said consistency is key.
“Right away, I knew we would conflict successful immoderate things, but the feeling was it is the champion league successful the world, possibly the champion club,” helium said.
“[Now] I deliberation we are showing [consistency], but the important happening is that it doesn’t substance what we did successful the caller games,” helium said. “We cannot hide we suffered a batch successful those games and play each crippled similar it is the past one.
“[We are] much dominant, playing amended football, and much competitory successful each way.”
Cunha credits United resurgence for Brazil call-ups
Man United guardant Matheus Cunha has credited the club’s resurgence nether Amorim with helping him cement a spot successful Carlo Ancelotti’s Brazil squad earlier adjacent year’s World Cup successful North America.
Cunha, 26, has seamlessly adapted to playing successful Amorim’s strategy arsenic a hybrid attacking midfielder and forward, a trait helium believes has strengthened his lawsuit for World Cup inclusion.
“Knowing that the manager [Amorim] trusts maine to play successful aggregate positions is important,” Cunha said.
“Manchester United is simply a nine that should ever beryllium astatine the top,” helium said. “I’m grateful to beryllium playing successful a broadside that’s delivering and competing well. To gain a spot successful the nationalist team, you person to consistently amusement your worthy astatine nine level.”
Cunha is thriving nether Amorim’s benignant of play successful the 2025-2026 English Premier League play [File: Matt McNulty/Getty Images]Moyes says Everton successful midst of a rebuild
Everton received a important boost aft appointing Moyes arsenic manager for the 2nd clip successful January with his broadside steadily rising up the table.
Speaking earlier the crippled against Man United, Moyes said his squad were continuing to enactment towards uncovering “solid ground” but it would instrumentality time.
“We’ve said galore times astir america trying to get connected coagulated crushed again. We’ve done that with the caller owners, caller stadium and staying up past year. So we person to effort and marque definite that we spell steady,” helium said.
“If anybody thought that we were going to wholly power everything around, past they’re wholly disconnected their head.”
Moyes continued: “I utilized to ever look astatine the existent managers from eras earlier maine who I look up to present – Bobby Robson, Brian Clough, Don Revie – each those ones who’d been fixed agelong periods astatine their clubs, and if you look astatine the success, it tended to enactment amended that way.”
What happened successful Man United’s past EPL match?
Matthijs de Ligt equalised successful the sixth infinitesimal of a melodramatic play of stoppage clip to gain Manchester United a 2-2 draw astatine Tottenham Hotspur successful the Premier League connected November 8.
Tottenham had looked similar they would assertion each 3 points erstwhile Richarlison glanced successful a header successful the archetypal infinitesimal of added time, completing a Spurs comeback from a extremity down.
There was inactive clip for de Ligt to find abstraction astatine the backmost station astatine a country to nonstop a header goalwards and implicit the enactment earlier Tottenham goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario clawed the shot away.
Trailing aft Mbeumo’s 32nd-minute header, Tottenham dominated the 2nd fractional and grabbed an equaliser successful the 84th done substitute Mathys Tel’s changeable that deflected successful disconnected de Ligt.
De Ligt celebrates scoring the equaliser against Spurs [Matthew Childs/Action Images via Reuters]What happened successful Everton’s past EPL match?
Everton defeated Fulham 2-0 astatine location connected November 8 conscionable earlier FIFA’s planetary window, ending a three-match EPL winless streak going backmost to October 5.
Idrissa Gueye gave Everton the pb successful the archetypal half, and Michael Keane made it 2-0 successful the 2nd arsenic Moyes’s broadside besides had a fig of goals chalked disconnected for offside successful what was a ascendant victory.
Gueye of Everton celebrates scoring his team’s archetypal extremity against Fulham [Carl Recine/Getty Images]Head-to-head: Last six matches
United are unbeaten against Everton successful their past six fixtures with 4 wins and 2 draws.
The teams past played successful a preseason affable 2 weeks earlier the commencement of the 2025-2026 English Premier League season:
- Manchester United 2-2 Everton (August 4)
- Everton 2-2 Manchester United (February 2)
- Manchester United 4-0 Everton (December 1)
- Manchester United 2-0 Everton (March 9, 2024)
- Everton 0-3 Manchester United (November 26, 2023)
- Manchester United 2-0 Everton (April 8, 2023)
Form guide: past 5 Premier League matches
Manchester United: W-W-W-D-D (most caller effect last)
Everton: W-L-L-D-W
United’s squad news
Benjamin Sesko volition beryllium retired of enactment “for a fewer weeks” aft hurting his genu earlier the planetary break, Amorim said connected Friday.
The forward, who joined United from RB Leipzig for 74 cardinal pounds ($97m) successful August, was injured during the 2-2 gully astatine Tottenham and missed Slovenia’s World Cup qualifiers.
United volition besides beryllium without Harry Maguire against Everton aft the defender picked up an wounded successful the Spurs draw.
Midfielder Kobbie Mainoo could beryllium disposable to look Everton, and Lisandro Martinez is getting person to a instrumentality aft being progressive successful the Argentina campy implicit the break.
Meanwhile, Cunha missed a Christmas lights switch-on lawsuit successful Altrincham aft organisers revealed the guardant suffered “an mishap successful training” connected Saturday, raising doubts implicit his availability connected Monday.
United’s predicted starting lineup
Lammens; Yoro, de Ligt, Shaw; Mazraoui, Casemiro, Fernandes, Dorgu; Mbeumo, Diallo; Zirkzee
Everton’s squad news
Moyes said connected Friday that cardinal midfielder Merlin Rohl has had an cognition to dainty a hernia and is not expected to instrumentality for a fewer weeks.
Everton are besides missing Nathan Patterson and Jarrad Branthwaite owed to groin and hamstring injuries, respectively.
Otherwise, Moyes appears to person a afloat acceptable squad to take from.
Everton’s predicted starting lineup
Pickford; O’Brien, Keane, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Garner, Gueye; Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish; Barry
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