Even more impressive is our record during the first home match of the season. The Reds have won 19 of our 26 introductory Premier League games at Old Trafford. Since losing our very first home match of the Premier League, against Everton in 1992/93, United have been beaten just once in an opening Old Trafford fixture.



We last kicked off with a home defeat in 2014, when a Gylfi Sigurdsson-inspired Swansea City beat United in Louis van Gaal’s first game as manager.

Van Gaal's successor, Jose Mourinho, boasts one of the best records for managers past and present when it comes to starting a new Premier League season with a win.

Friday's match at Old Trafford will be the manager's 10th opening weekend in English football and he is yet to taste defeat in that time, with victories in eight of his previous nine matches, giving the boss a win-percentage of 88.89 per cent. The next best record for a manager who has overseen five games or more in the top flight is Sir Alex Ferguson, with a win percentage of 61.9%.