Our no.29 was selected in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s XI on 54 occasions across all competitions, which is three more than any other player from the clubs in the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue Un. With United playing 61 games in total, that means Wan-Bissaka only missed out on seven stats –…
Month: May 2021
31 Man Utd player stats from the 2020/21 season
Most total shots: Bruno Fernandes – 165 Most shots on target: Bruno Fernandes – 62 Most free-kick shots: Bruno Fernandes – 22 Most completed passes: Harry Maguire – 2,516 Most attempted left-foot passes: Luke Shaw – 2,000 Most attempted right-foot passes: Bruno Fernandes – 2,689Most headed passes: Harry Maguire – 142 Most crosses: Bruno Fernandes…
Mason Greenwood deserves England chance after positive end to the season
Mason came out of the international break refreshed and those goals flowed. There was the header against Brighton – a first goal of that nature since his youth team days. The late clincher at Tottenham. A matchwinning double to see off a stubborn Burnley. Roma, Villa and Leicester all got to see what an unerring…
Goal of the Month: Who’s in the running?
DILLON HOOGEWERF (3) V MIDDLESBROUGH (U18s) Hoogewerf completed his hat-trick in the 8-1 drubbing of the Teessiders, receiving the ball in behind and slotting past Max Metcalfe. MASON GREENWOOD V ASTON VILLA With United on the comeback trail after Bruno Fernandes’s equalising penalty at Villa, Greenwood showed his class. The teenager had his back to…
Bruno finishes top of the scorers chart
BRUNO’S BREAKDOWN IN 2020/21 Premier League: 35 (2) games, 18 goalsChampions League: 5 (1) games, 4 goalsEuropa League: 9 games, 5 goalsFA Cup: 0 (3) games, 1 goalCarabao Cup: 2 (1) games, 0 goalsTotal: 51 (7) games, 28 goalsNumbers in brackets denote appearances as substitute. The 26-year-old has certainly been a revelation since signing from…
Analysing McTominay’s improvement in 2020/21
“There are a lot of things that people wouldn’t notice,” Scott remarked. “When receiving the ball, I find myself in a lot better position receiving the ball, facing forwards, chest and shoulders facing forwards. I’m ready to pass forward or run forward to try to score and create goals. “It’s that little bit of positional…
How Man Utd legend Norman Whiteside took football by storm
Following one of his career-defining moments at Wembley in 1985, Whiteside continued to smash further records and a year later he became the youngest player to reach 200 games for United, aged 21 years and four months; another record he also still holds. MANCHESTER TO MERSEYSIDE At a time when he should have been approaching…
Player of the Month: Who gets your vote?
The Reds kicked off the month by progressing into the Europa League final, despite defeat in the second leg in Rome, coming out 8-5 winners against the Italian side on aggregate. Upon returning home, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side faced a busy schedule in the Premier League that featured playing three times across a five-day period.…
Cavani wins Premier League Goal of the Month
This is the fifth time a United player has won the official Premier League Goal of the Month prize, which was introduced at the start of the 2016/17 season. Henrikh Mkhitaryan was our first winner with his incredible scorpion kick against Sunderland in December 2016, before Antonio Valencia’s volley against Everton won in September 2017.…
Revealing the top 10 United Predictions scorers for the 202021 season
The rules were simple: tell us your predicted line-up, first scorer, correct result and Man of the Match to score points that could lead to a variety of incredible prizes.A signed shirt was won by one supporter after every single fixture and our monthly winners also received that same reward, but with a year’s subscription…