Manchester United have won 12 of their last 15 Premier League games against Norwich (L3), winning each of their last four in a row against the Canaries.
Norwich have won just one of their last 12 away games against Manchester United in all competitions (D1 L10), winning 2-1 in the Premier League in December 2015.
Manchester United have lost two of their last four home Premier League games against sides starting the day bottom of the table (W2), after losing just one of their first 21 such games in the competition (W16 D4). Those two most recent defeats came against West Brom in April 2018 and Sheffield United in January 2021.
Manchester United have lost two of their last four Premier League games (W1 D1), having lost just one of their previous 15 following Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s departure (W8 D6). The Red Devils last lost consecutive league games in November 2021.
Norwich beat Burnley 2-0 at Carrow Road last time out, just their fifth Premier League victory of the season. However, their previous four victories came in two lots of consecutive wins, including one home win and one away win both times.
Five of Manchester United’s eight league defeats this season have come on Saturdays. Only in 2018-19 have the Red Devils lost more Premier League games on a specific day of the week (6 Sunday games).
Norwich manager Dean Smith won 1-0 at Old Trafford earlier this season with Aston Villa. This will be the eighth time a manager has taken charge of two different clubs away at Man Utd in the same top-flight campaign, with none of the previous seven managing to win both visits.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been on the losing side in seven of his 25 Premier League appearances for Manchester United this season. Only twice has he lost more league games in a single top-flight campaign – in 2002-03 with Sporting CP (8) and 2003-04 with Man Utd (8).
Norwich’s Mathias Normann has had 20 shots in the Premier League this season, with all of them coming from outside the box. It’s the most shots a player has had in the competition this term without having a single one from inside the box.
Teemu Pukki scored his 20th Premier League goal for Norwich against Burnley, becoming only the third player to do so for the Canaries after Chris Sutton (33) and Grant Holt (23). It was Norwich’s 20th Premier League goal of the season, with Pukki accounting for 45 per cent of those (9), the highest such ratio in the division.
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