United seek to capitalise on relegation-threatened Wolves

Rock-bottom Wolverhampton Wanderers travel to Old Trafford on Tuesday night to take on Manchester United as the Red Devils seek consecutive Premier League victories to round off 2025.

United secured a narrow 1-0 victory over Newcastle United on Boxing Day last time out.

Wolves continued their winless start to the season as they fell to a 2-1 away defeat to Liverpool at the weekend.

Match preview

Man Utd have won eight of their last 11 Premier League matches against Wolves (L3), beating them 4-1 earlier this month at Molineux.

Wolves won this exact fixture 1-0 last season, last winning consecutive away league games against Man Utd between March 1960 and September 1961 (a run of three).

This is the third time Manchester United have faced an opponent twice in the same month in the Premier League, after February 2023 (W1 D1 vs Leeds United) and December 1998 (D2 vs Chelsea).

This is just the second time Wolves have faced an opponent twice in the same month in the Premier League, previously losing twice against Arsenal in February 2022.

The Red Devils lost their last league game in both 2023 (vs Nottingham Forest) and 2024 (vs Newcastle). They last lost their final league game in three consecutive calendar years between 1980 and 1982.

Wolves have won their final league game in just one of the last six calendar years (D2 L3), beating Everton 3-0 in 2023.

Ruben Amorim’s side kept just their second Premier League clean sheet of the season against Newcastle last time out. They last recorded a shutout in consecutive league games in September 2024 under Erik ten Hag (vs Southampton and Crystal Palace).

Wolves have lost 25 Premier League games in 2025; a defeat here would equal the most losses suffered by a club in a calendar year in the competition (Ipswich Town – 26 in 1994).

Patrick Dorgu has been involved in two goals in his last two games for Manchester United (1 goal, 1 assist), having had just one goal involvement in his first 36 appearances in all competitions (1 assist).

Team news

Manchester United

Mason Mount is a doubt after he was withdrawn at halftime on Friday.

Captain Bruno Fernandes, Kobbie Mainoo, Matthijs de Ligt and Harry Maguire are on the sidelines for the host.

Bryan Mbeumo, Amad Diallo and Noussair Mazraoui are away on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Toti Gomes, Rodrigo Gomes, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, Marshall Munetsi and Daniel Bentley are unavailable for selection due to injuries.

Emmanuel Agbadou and Tawanda Chirewa are away at the AFCON.

Predicted line-ups

Manchester United: Senne Lammens, Diogo Dalot, Ayden Heaven, Lisandro Martínez, Luke Shaw, Casemiro, Manuel Ugarte, Jack Fletcher, Patrick Dorgu, Matheus Cunha, Benjamin Sesko.

Wolverhampton Wanderers: José Sá, Yerson Mosquera, Santiago Bueno, Ladislav Krejci, Matt Doherty, André, João Gomes, Hugo Bueno, Mateus Mané, Hwang Hee-Chan, Tolu Arokodare.