Explaining Sunday's cover of United Review

United Review marks that milestone with an eye-catching front cover, featuring standout match programmes from the fixture’s storied past. 

These 99 ‘home’ games were not all played at Old Trafford, by the way.

To clarify, the first was held at North Road, followed by six at Bank Street.

There were also three at Manchester City’s Maine Road, which is where we temporarily played during World War II, due to bomb damage at Old Trafford.

A sprawling feature within Sunday's matchday programme selects some of the Reds’ more enjoyable moments from the 99 home fixtures to date. 

Copies of United Review are available to order online, to be posted to your door. Or you can pick up a copy from the booths around Old Trafford on Sunday.

HOSTING VILLA

Here’s how the 99 games break down…

89 = Old Trafford
6 = Bank Street
3 = Maine Road
1 = North Road

FIVE PRE-MATCH STATS

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- United have lost just two of the last 37 home league games against Villa (W28 D7), going down 1-0 both times in December 2009 and September 2021.

- United have kept 30 clean sheets against Villa in the Premier League – only Arsenal have kept more against a single opponent in the competition (31 vs Newcastle).

- United have scored in the last 17 Premier League games, since losing 1-0 to Everton in November. We last had a longer scoring streak between November 2012 and April 2013 under Sir Alex Ferguson (23).

- Across both spells, Michael Carrick has won all five of his home Premier League games as United head coach. In the club’s history, only Frank O'Farrell, back in 1971, has won each of his first six home league matches in charge of the Reds.

- Bruno Fernandes’s goals and assists have been worth 23 points to United this season. In Premier League history, only three players’ goal involvements have been worth more to the Reds in a campaign – Robin van Persie in 2012-13 (38), Eric Cantona in 1993-94 (26) and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2007-08 (25).

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