Tremendous-sub Joshua Jirkzee was the hero for Man Utd as his late purpose sealed all three factors within the opening recreation of the 2024-25 Premier League season. Take a look at the most effective information, stats and Opta information from tonight’s recreation at Previous Trafford with our Manchester United vs Fulham stats web page.
Manchester United opened the 2024-25 Premier League season with a win, however they left it late to defeat Fulham. Joshua Zirkzee scored on his Premier League debut together with his 87th-minute strike after approaching as a second-half substitute. It was his first shot within the competitors and was sufficient to seal all three factors for the house aspect.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all of the Manchester United vs Fulham stats from their Premier League conflict at Previous Trafford.
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Manchester United 1-0 Fulham: Put up-Match Details
Manchester United have extra wins (22) and extra factors (70) from their opening video games of Premier League campaigns than another aspect.
Joshua Zirkzee turned the fifteenth Dutch participant to attain on his Premier League debut, with 4 of these doing so for Manchester United (additionally Ruud van Nistelrooy, Alexander Büttner and Donny van de Beek).
Manchester United have now scored in every of their final 29 dwelling video games in opposition to Fulham in all competitions, since a 2-0 loss in April 1963.
Fulham have misplaced their opening match of a Premier League season when beginning that marketing campaign away from dwelling for the primary time since 2008-09 (1-2 vs Hull Metropolis).
4 of the final 5 profitable targets scored in Premier League conferences between Manchester United and Fulham have come within the ultimate 5 minutes, with Joshua Zirkzee’s decisive strike tonight coming within the 87th minute.
Noussair Mazraoui, Joshua Zirkzee and Matthijs de Ligt all made their first Premier League appearances tonight – it’s the primary time Manchester United have handed as many as three gamers their competitors debut since Could 2017 in opposition to Crystal Palace (Josh Harrop, Joel Pereira, Demetri Mitchell and Angel Gomes).
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