Monday night focus for United

Manchester United are yet to play a Monday night league game in this calendar year but we have three out of our next five fixtures in the slot, before mid-December.

That is because Ruben Amorim's side are taking on Everton, at Old Trafford on 24 November, as domestic action finally resumes after the international break, followed by matches next month against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Bournemouth.

The clash with Rob Edwards's Wolves is on 8 December at Molineux, while the Cherries head to the Theatre of Dreams a week later.

You can still get tickets to see Ruben's Reds play under the lights at home.

Thanks to our friends at Opta, we can reveal the Reds have played 54 times in the Premier League on a Monday, kicking off at 19:00 BST/GMT or later.

Our first game in the TV slot yielded a maiden win in the revamped division, in 1992, when Dion Dublin memorably broke the deadlock late on at Southampton.

In total, we have won 33 of those fixtures, the last of which victories came in August 2023, when Raphael Varane's goal accounted for Wolves at Old Trafford. Since then, we've suffered defeats to Crystal Palace and Newcastle United.

There have been countless vivid memories from these fixtures over the years, probably too many to mention. Tearing pretenders Norwich City apart with a devastating burst of counterattacking football and, soon after, celebrating the inaugural title, and ending the 26-year drought, by beating Blackburn Rovers on a night for the ages at Old Trafford that would set a high bar from that first season onwards.

Yet 1993/94, a campaign that was somehow going to be even better, featured an August win at Aston Villa when Lee Sharpe forever linked himself with the beautiful all-black kit with both goals in a 2-1 triumph, and the good times kept flowing.

There was a huge victory in the context of the 1995/96 Premier League title race, when Peter Schmeichel was outstanding and Eric Cantona volleyed the only goal at leaders Newcastle United, as the tide started to turn, with Kevin Keegan's Magpies ultimately reeled in, on the way to another Double.

A 4-3 thriller at Middlesbrough is our highest-scoring Monday night game in the division and there was a fabulous 2-1 win over Liverpool in 2004, thanks to a brace by Mikael Silvestre.

From 2007 to 2012, we went on a run of eight successive wins, without conceding a goal, until a costly 1-0 reverse in the Manchester derby, when Vincent Kompany headed home at the Etihad Stadium.

Happier more recent memories include Nemanja Matic's dramatic winning strike at Crystal Palace in 2018 and beating Liverpool, 2-1 again, in 2022.

UNITED'S MONDAY NIGHT GAMES IN PREMIER LEAGUE

24/8/92: Southampton (A) 1-0
18/1/93: QPR (A) 3-1
8/2/93: Leeds (A) 0-0
5/4/93: Norwich City (A) 3-1
3/5/93: Blackburn Rovers (H) 3-1
23/8/93: Aston Villa (A) 2-1
22/8/94: Nottingham Forest (A) 1-1
1/5/95: Coventry City (A) 3-2
28/8/95: Blackburn Rovers (A) 2-1
27/11/95: Nottingham Forest (A) 1-1
1/1/96: Tottenham Hotspur (A) 1-4
22/1/96: West Ham United (A) 1-0
4/3/96: Newcastle United (A) 1-0
15/12/97: Aston Villa (H) 1-0
19/1/98: Southampton (A) 0-1
6/4/98: Blackburn Rovers (A) 3-1
27/4/98: Crystal Palace (A) 3-0
24/1/00: Arsenal (H) 1-1
10/4/00: Middlesbrough (A) 4-3
1/1/01: West Ham United (H) 3-1
7/10/02: Everton (H) 3-0