EPL: West Ham v Newcastle: what the stats say
In a run stretching back to 1939, Manchester United have won their last three home league games against Brentford by an aggregate score of 10-1, winning 3-0 in this fixture last season.
Having won 4-0 at home in August, Brentford are looking to complete their second ever league double over Manchester United, after the 1936-37 top-flight campaign.
Brentford won 2-1 at Manchester City earlier this season – the last London side to win away against both Manchester clubs in the same league campaign was Arsenal in 1990-91.
Having lost all five of their midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Premier League games last season, Brentford are unbeaten in their three such games this term, drawing with Crystal Palace and Chelsea before beating Southampton.
Manchester United have lost just one of their last 22 Premier League home games (W14 D7). Indeed, the Red Devils are on the longest current home run without defeat in the competition (12 games) since losing 2-1 to Brighton on the opening weekend.
Manchester United have failed to score in each of their last three Premier League games; never before have they gone four without a goal in the competition, last doing so in the league overall in April 1989.
Brentford have lost just one of their last 16 Premier League games (W7 D8), going down 1-0 at Everton last month. Only Arsenal, Manchester City and Newcastle have lost fewer games than the Bees this season (5), though Thomas Frank’s side have drawn more Premier League games than anyone else this term (13).
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Marcus Rashford has scored 18 home goals in all competitions this season – it’s the most by a Man Utd player at Old Trafford in a single campaign since 2011-12 (Wayne Rooney, 19), while the last player to hit 20 was Rooney in 2009-10.
Bruno Fernandes has assisted 49 goals in all competitions for Manchester United, more than twice as many as any teammate since his debut for the club in February 2020. The only Premier League player with more assists in this period is Kevin De Bruyne with 58.
Ivan Toney has scored 17 Premier League goals this season; only one Brentford player has ever scored more in a top-flight campaign, with Dave McCulloch doing so three times (26 in 1935-36, 31 in 1936-37, 26 in 1937-38).