[Lucky McLuckerson]

...................VS.......................

Date: Thursday, 26 December 2024
Kickoff Time: 1730 Hrs GMT
Venue: Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton

League Form Guide

13. Manchester United: WLLWL
18. Wolverhampton Wanderers: LLLLW


Previous League Meetings

Wolverhampton Wanderers 3—4 Manchester United

Manchester United 1—0 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Manchester United 2—0 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Wolverhampton Wanderers 0—1 Manchester United

Manchester United 1—0 Wolverhampton Wanderers


All-Time League Record

Manchester United wins: 50
Wolverhampton Wanderers wins: 33
Draws: 17


Pre-Match Pressers

Rúben Amorim




Vítor Pereira





Team News

Manchester United

Luke Shaw, Mason Mount and Victor Lindelöf ruled out. Matthijs de Ligt doubtful.


Wolverhampton Wanderers

Yerson Mosquera, Boubacar Traoré, Enso González, Sasa Kalajdzic and Pablo Sarabia ruled out. Mario Lemina doubtful.


Know The Opposition

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, commonly known as Wolves or The Wanderers, is an English professional football club based in the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. The club were founded as St. Luke's in 1877 by John Baynton and John Brodie, after a group of pupils at St Luke's Church school in Blakenhall had been presented with a football by their headmaster Harry Barcroft. Two years later, they merged with local cricket and football club The Wanderers, to form Wolverhampton Wanderers. The club then became one of the twelve founders of the English Football League in 1888 and finished the inaugural season in a creditable third place, as well as reaching their first ever FA Cup Final, losing 3–0 to the first Double winners, Preston North End.

The club spent 33 years in the top flight from 1932 to 1965, their longest continuous period at that level (albeit league football was in hiatus from 1939 to 1946 due to World War II). During the 1950s, the club was English league champions three times (1953–54, 1957–58 & 1958–59), whilst under the management of Stan Cullis. Wolves has also finished runners-up in the league on five occasions (most recently in 1959–60) and in third place on a further six occasions (most recently in 1960–61). On the domestic cup front, they have won the FA Cup four times, most recently in 1960, and has finished runners-up on a further four occasions, and the Football League Cup twice, in 1974 and 1980.

Wolves have long-standing rivalries with other West Midlands clubs; the main one is with West Bromwich Albion, against whom they contest the Black Country derby and with whom Wolves has played more league fixtures (146) than any other football opponent, even though the two clubs have not met in a league fixture since 2011–12 (the last season they competed in the same division as each other). Wolves also share rivalries with the two Birmingham clubs, Aston Villa and Birmingham City, though they are much further away than West Bromwich. They play their homes games at the Molineux Stadium, the first stadium ever built for use by a Football League club and one of the first British grounds to have floodlights installed and it hosted some of the earliest European club games in the 1950s.


Referee

Tony Harrington.


Familiar Faces

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[thisisnottaken1]

They’ve been pants but so have we. I’m predicting them to win.

 

[Ayoba]

New manager bounce. Easy wolves win.

 

[Todd]

Big result for them today, so they'll be licking their chops at the prospect of facing us.

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

new manager making his home debut against Man Utd......

 

[Ollie Derbyshire]

We’ll lose this one, never been more certain of it. They’ll out run us and win the second balls as our players don’t have the fight for it.

 

[Nickosaur]

Good win for them today. New manager bounce. Ffs.

 

[Bubz27]

Rashford to come back from being dropped, against Wolves for the 3rd time in 18 months with a goal.

 

[Banana Republic]

Wolves have a top half of the table scoring record this season, but by far the worst defensive record.
Combine that to the fact that we can't score and we can't defend.

On that form, a rare Wolves home win on Boxing Day looks quite probable.


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[mitchmouse]

Pretty much anyone can beat us right now...

 

[CallyRed]

Yessss can't wait

 

[bstb3]

new manager making his home debut against Man Utd......

Hmm, I think I've seen that movie before..

 

[Crostien]

We will dominate this match and create chances for fun.

Three nil Wolves

 

[Redasaredthing]

Wolves will win.

The only way this current United squad gets a win against any team outside the bottom 3 is we have a lucky day that coincides with the opposition having a bad day.

The last time I felt so bad about a United team was the year we got relegated.

 

[bosnian_red]

We'll bounce back with a win and be clinical

 

[RedIan]

Wolves have won 3 games all season and lost 11 and people are predicting a wolves win because they sacked the manager.

3-0 united.

 

[The Brown Bull]

Wolves v Sheep.
Doesn't take a genius.

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Honestly, there's no predicting these players. Could be a bad loss, could be a great win, could be a bore draw.

 

[red_de_pologne]

I think there will be a reaction, 3-1 win.

 

[always_hoping]

Won this fixture in classic 4-3 match last season. Could do with something like that now to lift the spirits.

Hard to have any confidence about beating any team at the moment when you have a United team that waste big goal scoring opportunities and remain poor as ever on set pieces and gift goals to the opposition.

 

[TMDaines]

Getting new manager bounced would look and feel terrible. Gotta get the result.

 

[GledTheRed]

2-1 to wolves.

 

[Ole'sgunnarwin]

Not watching, would rather spend time with the family

 

[Von Mistelroum]

Lazy, nervous United will let this one get away from them badly I think. I'm going 4:1 Wolves.

 

[Florida Man]

3-1 to United. And you can quote me on it.

 

[RDCR07]

We seem to be performing better away than at home so let’s hope for a win. It’s this fecking hope that kills ya!

 

[justboy68]

Worst time to be playing them, not looking forward to it tbh, because losing will add heaps more pressure.

 

[Waynne]

I think there will be a reaction, 3-1 win.

We don't have SAF in the dressing room to kick lumps out of this lot for that to happen.

But yes 3-1 win

 

[Ahmer Baig]

New manager bounce for Wolves.

 

[Nero]

Very comfortable win for United.

 

[Crostien]

Very comfortable win for United.

Hope so, Nero.

We're in a battle to stave off relegation. Need the points. Fast.

 

[Crostien]

Not watching, would rather spend time with the family

Typical gloryhunter.

Get your priorities in order.

Game's gone.

 

[Banana Republic]

Wolves have conceded 40 goals already this season, from 17 games.
You'd think that was an opportunity, but Utd can't hit a barn door from 3 yards.

At the other end, despite their relegation form, Wolves are a reasonably high scoring team (more than Forest and Villa and only 2 less than City) and will be up against our increasingly leaky defence.

What could possibly go wrong?

There has to be a reaction from Utd, otherwise this will be another disaster in the making.

We could do it against City and we fought back against Spurs in the League Cup (despite it being too late), so how did we collapse so badly at home against Bournemouth?
If we don't turn it around with this fixture, there's little hope of a top half finish this season.


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[Walters_19_MuFc]

The principles of football never change: defend solidly and capitalise on your chances when they come.

Overall, we defended reasonably well against Bournemouth. However, our inability to take our chances ultimately cost us. With better finishing, there’s no question we would have won that game. It’s a fine margin, but it’s the difference between frustration and victory.

Hopefully, we're much more clinical against Wolves.

 

[Ayoba]

They key is to have zero expectations whatsoever. If we win, it will be a nice surprise. If we lose, meh, we're shit and a loss was expected. This approach will save you a lot of mental anguish.

 

[Chaky_Best]

I don't expect anything from this game.

Think we will not rotate that much, but Amorim would need to because the team was so tired.

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----------------------------------------Yoro------------Maguire----------------Martinez--------------------------
Mazraoui-----------------------------Casemiro------------Eriksen--------------------------------------Dalot
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[Walters_19_MuFc]

They key is to have zero expectations whatsoever. If we win, it will be a nice surprise. If we lose, meh, we're shit and a loss was expected. This approach will save you a lot of mental anguish.

What about a draw?

 

[Ayoba]

What about a draw?

also meh.

Hope this helps. xx

 

[Blood Mage]

If we lose or draw here we're in deep shit. Must win.

 

[peridigm]

Best chance at 3 points for the remainder of December.