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Manchester United 1:1 Wolverhampton Wanderers

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    Lucky McLuckerson

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    Date: Tuesday, 30 December 2025

    Kickoff Time: 2015 Hrs GMT
    Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester

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    League Form Guide

    6. Manchester United: DWDLW
    20. Wolverhampton Wanderers: LLLLL


    Previous League Meetings


    Wolverhampton Wanderers 1—4 Manchester United

    Manchester United 0—1 Wolverhampton Wanderers

    Wolverhampton Wanderers 2—0 Manchester United

    Wolverhampton Wanderers 3—4 Manchester United

    Manchester United 1—0 Wolverhampton Wanderers


    All-Time League Record

    Manchester United wins: 51
    Wolverhampton Wanderers wins: 35
    Draws: 17


    Pre-Match Pressers

    Rúben Amorim




    Rob Edwards





    Team News

    Manchester United

    Broon Fernansh, Amad Diallo, Bryan Mbeumo and Noussair Mazraoui ruled out. Mason Mount, Harry Maguire, Matthijs de Ligt and Kobbie Mainoo doubtful.


    Wolverhampton Wanderers

    Dan Bentley, Rodrigo Gomes, Marshall Munetsi, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, Emmanuel Agbadou and Tawanda Chirewa ruled out.


    Know The Opposition

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    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

    Thomas Bramall.


    Familiar Faces

    N/A.​
     
    Going to assume Mount is out.

    Lammens
    Dalot - Heaven - Martinez - Shaw
    Casemiro - Ugarte
    Dorgu - Mainoo - Cunha
    Sesko

    Thankfully wolves are garbage because that’s a rubbish side.​
     
    2 clean sheets in a row would be very welcome

    On paper this should be our easiest game this season
     
    Just please play a formation that suits the players where everyone's role is defined. From start to finish. And don't make defensive subs (that includes playing Zirkzee).
     
    2 clean sheets in a row would be very welcome

    On paper this should be our easiest game this season

    Think Wolves prefer playing away from home than at the Molineux.
     
    ……On paper this should be our easiest game this season

    How many times have we been there before, facing rubbish teams at rock bottom, then getting beaten or limping to a draw?
    Even at OT !

    Let’s hope we get a decisive victory this time, so we can stay in touching distance of those European places, going into the 2nd half of the season.
    Much tougher fixtures are coming up in the new year.


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    Hope Mainoo's back available for this one. We can't be far away from fielding an outfield team of defenders at this rate
     
    Mount’s injury and Zirkzee’s “I’m obviously leaving” cameo means we’re even further depleted. If no one is back then it could be tricky

    Lammens
    Dalot Heaven Martinez Shaw
    Ugarte Casemiro
    Dorgu Cunha Lacey
    Sesko

    Hopefully Mainoo, Maguire and De Ligt are back.
     
    This will be harder than the away game, wolves won’t try and come out and play like idiots this time.
     
    Lammens
    Dalot heaven Martinez Shaw
    Casemiro Ugarte
    Dorgu Cunha Fletcher??
    Sesko​

    The absences are a pain right now, but can still put out a good lineup (with just the one youth player).
     
    From what I could find online Mount was a precaution sub, so hopefully he's back. Also hope we continue with that system/formation from the 1st half vs Newcastle.
     
    Results in this fixture this century:

    24/25 - L 1-0
    23/24 - W 1-0 (Varane)
    22/23 - W 2-0 (Martial, Garnacho)
    21/22 - L 1-0
    20/21 - W 1-0 (Rashford)
    19/20 - D 0-0
    18/19 - D 1-1 (Fred)
    11/12 - W 4-1 (Rooney x2, Nani x2)
    10/11 - W 2-1 (Park x2)
    09/10 - W 3-0 (Rooney, Vidic, Valencia)
    03/04 - W 1-0 (O’Shea)
     
    I'll go with
    Cunha Sesko Dorgu
    Zirkzee
    Ugarte Casemiro
    Shaw Martinez heaven Dalot
     
    Going to assume Mount is out.

    Lammens
    Dalot - Heaven - Martinez - Shaw
    Casemiro - Ugarte
    Dorgu - Mainoo - Cunha
    Sesko

    Thankfully wolves are garbage because that’s a rubbish side.​
    If it happens, really excited to see Mainoo as a 10. Hopefully Mainoo's form picks up and he goes to the world cup.
     
    Im going for something a bit more controversial and given our issues in midfield:
    Lammens
    Heaven martinez Shaw
    Dalot Casemiro cunah dorgu
    Mount zirkzee
    Sesko

    I'd love to see cunah in the 8 position, he loves to drive with the ball, can track back and presses. Would add much needed energy in the middle. Zirkzee is better as a 10 than a 9 so filling in for cunah there makes sense. When mainoo is back, then cunah goes back to a 10.
     
    People wanting to start Zirkzee after that cameo yesterday? Give one of the kids a chance over him.
     
    People wanting to start Zirkzee after that cameo yesterday? Give one of the kids a chance over him.
    Genuinely can't believe what I'm seeing... I don't want to see him on the bench, let alone start.

    Also Cunha and Mount should be ready.
     
    Lammens
    Dorgu Heaven Martinez Shaw
    Casemiro Mainoo Ugarte
    Mount Sesko Cunha​
     
    When I watched the reverse fixture a few weeks back, it was so clear that it was a missed opportunity for Sesko as he’d have gotten plenty of chances. Hopefully he gets to make up for it in this one and bag some goals.
     
    Ah, crappy Wolves again, got to win this one & build on the win against Newcastle.
     
    Any word on how serious the mount injury is? Jack Fletcher did not look great and completely out of place when he was substituted on.
     
    Going to assume Mount is out.

    Lammens
    Dalot - Heaven - Martinez - Shaw
    Casemiro - Ugarte
    Dorgu - Mainoo - Cunha
    Sesko

    Thankfully wolves are garbage because that’s a rubbish side.​
    Yet assume Mainoo is fit?
     
    I board my flight from San Francisco tomorrow afternoon for my biennial trip to Manchester. I wish it could have picked a more interesting fixture than this one, but this is the only time I could get away for a week before next summer.

    There's a worry about a letdown after the tough win over Newcastle but even with that and a weakened squad we should be able to dig out the win over Wolves 2-0.
     
    Dropping points in this one would be the most Amorim thing ever.
     
    I hope that De Ligt will be back, therefore this line-up:

    -------------------------Lammens--------------------

    ---------------De Ligt----Heaven-------Martinez-------
    Dalot--------------------------------------------------------Dorgu
    ---------------------Casemiro--Ugarte------------------------

    ---------------Fletcher-------------------Cunha--------------
    ------------------------------Sesko--------------------------------
     
    They’re definitely performing better and their first league win isn’t far away (hopefully it’s the game after us at home to West Ham). Need to get these 3 points, though, and anything less would be sickening.
     
    Wolves have shown they aren't going to roll over at places like Arsenal and Liverpool, even after conceding first. They were very decent at Villa too if I recall.

    Certainly don't think it will be as easy as some think
     
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    If Wolves don't win this, I'm pretty sure it'll be the first time in EPL history that a club have failed to record a win through the first half of a season. Even Derby County got one win (and six draws) through their first 19 matches, but then went winless in the second half of the season.

    Let's hope for the best on the injury front:

    ......................Sesko.........................
    .........................................................
    Cunha...........Mount..............Dorgu
    .........................................................
    .........Casemiro.....Mainoo..............
    .........................................................
    Shaw......Licha.....Heaven.......Dalot
    ..........................................................
    ...................Lammens......................

    Zirkzee in the hole if Mount can't go; Fletcher in the midfield if Mainoo can't go.

    Should be more than enough to get 3 points either way.
     
    If Wolves don't win this, I'm pretty sure it'll be the first time in EPL history that a club have failed to record a win through the first half of a season. Even Derby County got one win (and six draws) through their first 19 matches, but then went winless in the second half of the season.

    Let's hope for the best on the injury front:

    ......................Sesko.........................
    .........................................................
    Cunha...........Mount..............Dorgu
    .........................................................
    .........Casemiro.....Mainoo..............
    .........................................................
    Shaw......Licha.....Heaven.......Dalot
    ..........................................................
    ...................Lammens......................

    Zirkzee in the hole if Mount can't go; Fletcher in the midfield if Mainoo can't go.

    Should be more than enough to get 3 points either way.
    Zirzkzee should be far from starting, lucky to be on the bench after what he served up on boxing day.
     
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  • 19% Man Utd 2:1 Wolves
  • 17% Man Utd 3:0 Wolves
  • 9% Man Utd 3:1 Wolves
  • 4% Man Utd 1:1 Wolves
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  • 3% Man Utd 4:0 Wolves
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  • 2% Man Utd 1:3 Wolves
  • 1% Man Utd 0:1 Wolves
  • 1% Man Utd 0:0 Wolves
  • 1% Man Utd 0:2 Wolves
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