West Ham won their most recent Premier League meeting with Man Utd in May, last beating the Red Devils in consecutive games in a run of three between December 2006 and December 2007.

Manchester United have won just two of their last six away Premier League games against West Ham United (D1 L3), both under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 campaigns.

Manchester United have won just two of their last 12 Premier League games in London (D3 L7), with both of those victories coming against Fulham (November 2022 and November this season).

Since David Moyes’ return to West Ham in the 2019-20 campaign, the Hammers have won just three of their 31 Premier League games against sides to finish in the top four the previous season (D5 L23). They’ve never kept a clean sheet in these 31 games, with all three victories coming by a 3-2 scoreline.

Only Sheffield United and Luton Town have faced more shots in the Premier League this season than both West Ham and Man Utd (271 each). Since 2003-04, it is Man Utd’s most shots faced per game in a campaign (15.9) while it is West Ham’s highest average since 2013-14 (17.8 per game that season).

Manchester United have failed to score in three of their four Premier League matches in December, their most in a single month since January 2020 (also three). The Red Devils have drawn a blank in 11 games in 2023, only failing to score in more games in one calendar year in the Premier League (12 in 2015).

This is Manchester United’s last game before Christmas. They have lost 12 games in all competitions already this season, last losing more before Christmas in 1930-31 (16), a season in which they finished bottom of the top-flight.

Saïd Benrahma scored West Ham’s winner in this exact fixture last season, and their goal in their 2-1 home defeat in 2021-22. The last West Ham player to score a home goal against Manchester United in three consecutive seasons was Pop Robson, who did so between 1970-71 and 1972-73.

Lucas Paquetá assisted all three of West Ham’s goals in their 3-0 win over Wolves last time out, assisting as many times in that game as he did in 28 games last season. He also created six chances in open play in the match, the most by a Hammers player since Mauro Zárate vs Stoke in December 2015 (7).

Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes has created 126 chances in the Premier League in 2023, the most of any player and a record (since 2004) by a Red Devils player in a calendar year in the competition. He has also created the most open play chances (96), with only two players ever creating more in a year on record: Mesut Özil in 2015 (104) and Eden Hazard in 2015 (98).