Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

JACK GREALISH

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Goals: 7 Assists 10 (only Harry Kane has more this season) Pass success rate:

83% Games: 22

Points won when in starting XI:

35 out of 63

FACT: Most fouled player in the Premier League

PHIL FODEN

Goals: 9 Assists: 5

Pass success rate: 88% Games: 29 Points won when in starting

XI: 26 out of 33

FACT: Youngest player to win

Premier League winner’s medal (17 years 350 days)

WHERE’S THE NOISE? Fernandes tries to celebrate goals as if fans were still in the stadium

Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes averages a goal or assist once every 84 minutes in the Premier League, the best ever ratio of the 1,685 players with at least five goal involvemen­ts in the competitio­n.

United are currently unbeaten in 18 Premier League away games (W13 D5), their longest such run on the road in top-flight history. There have been six longer runs by four different teams in the top-flight, most recently a 21-game run for Liverpool between January 2019 and February 2020.

Under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the Red Devils have lost more Premier League games against sides in the relegation zone (W10 D2 L4) than they have against sides in the top four (W5 D5 L2). United lost their last such game against Sheffield United, but haven’t lost consecutiv­e top-flight matches against sides in the drop zone since 1992 (vs West Ham in April and Wimbledon in October).

West Brom manager Sam Allardyce won two of his first three matches in the Prem against Man Utd, both at Old Trafford, in 2001-02 and 2002-03 with Bolton. Since then, he has won just one of 22 matches against the Red Devils (D5 L16), winning 2-1 with Sunderland in February 2016.

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