Manchester United welcomes Fulham to Old Trafford for the opening game of the 2024/2025 Premier League season hoping to make a statement with a win. Buoyed by captain Bruno Fernandes new contract extension and new club signings in Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui in defence and Joshua Zirkzee in attack, United looks a stronger team on paper than last season and would be expected to pick all three point against Fulham.
Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho and Joshua Zirkzee are expected to be the front three and on their day can be a huge threat to any opposition. United will hope to start the season with a win and a season statement. Harry Maguire is expected to be fit while Luke Shaw remains injured and will miss the match. Manchester United potential eleven could feature three new signings with De Ligt slottng in at center back and Mazraoui filling in at left back with Zirkzee in attack. Amad Dialo despite his impressive form in pre-season is expected to make the substitute bench as well as Jadon Sancho who could still leave United before the end of the summer transfer window with several clubs interested including PSG with Luiz Enrique a big fan of his.
Fulham will be hoping to cause the first upset of the season with a win at Old Trafford in a repeat of last season and will have a go at United having improve their own squad with the arrival of Emile Smith Rowe from Arsenal howbeit losing Joao Palhinha to Bayern will reduced their chance in the middle of the park with the Portuguese a combative midfielder and a strong tackler of the ball, breaking up attack and intercepting play but Fulham now have Smith Rowe and Iwobi in midfield who are ready to step up in the face of Palhinha’s departure and have the impressive Andreas Perreira, a former United midfielder who will most want to impress against his former employer. Fulham have also signed Ryan Sessegnon from Tottenham on a free transfer and the former Spurs man will hope to get his first outing on the league with his new club. Smith Rowe is expected to start at Old Trafford as well as former and now team mates Alex Iwobi. After a long period of time and so much wait for football lovers around the globe, the Premier League is back on your screens and promises to be a great season with new rules coming to place in automated offside system to Referee openly stating the team they support to avoid the scenario of Everton vs Nottingham Forest match where host of Forest players accuse the VAR official of bias claiming he is a Luton fan, a team directly involved in relegation fight with Forest and Forest having three strong penalty claims turned down by the officials. EPL is back and kick off is 20:00 at Old Trafford.
