Overview of the Ipswich Town - Man United match
The Portuguese coach was appointed to succeed Erik ten Hag in early November. However, he has not started work immediately. Instead, Ruud van Nistelrooy had three games in charge of the Red Devils as caretaker manager before Amorim took over.
aged 39, 302 days on the day of the match, Amorim will be the youngest manager to take charge of a first-team game for the Red Devils since Wilf Mc Gu gu gu guards in August 1969 (31 years, 288 days).
A good sign for the new owner is Man United's recent record against promoted opponents. The Red Devils have won 17 and drawn two of their last 19 games against newly promoted sides.
Their most recent defeat was a 1-2 defeat to Watford in November 2021. Furthermore, Man United have won nine consecutive away games against promoted sides. Only Chelsea have a better record, having won 21 away games against promoted sides between October 2002 and November 2008.
Some players in the Man United squad will want to impress the new coach, with Alejandro Garnacho certainly in that group. The Argentine has 20 Premier League goals (13 goals, 7 assists), making him the second non-English player to achieve that for Man United before the age of 21. Before him, only Ronaldo had achieved this feat (14 goals, 11 assists).
Ipswich may be a weak team in this match, but Mr. Kieran McKenna was previously an assistant coach at Old Trafford for 5 years. Before entering the international break, Ipswich had their first win of this year's season when they beat Tottenham 2-1 last round. According to Opta, Ipswich have not won back-to-back Premier League games since February 2002.
However, they have yet to win at home this season after playing five games at Portman Road. Before that, there were 5 newly promoted teams that did not win their first 6 home matches in this playground and were then relegated: Swindon Town in 1993-1994, Crystal Palace in 1997-1998, Norwich City in 2004-2005, Sunderland in 2005 2006, and Burnley in 2023-2024.
Ipswich have some pretty poor attacking statistics. They are the lowest-ranked Premier League side this season for shots (108), shots on target (33), touches in the opposition box (199) and expected goals (10.2).
Thus, the situation could have been worse for Ipswich without the form of Liam Delap, who has scored 6 of Ipswich's 12 goals in the Premier League this season. He is one of three players to have contributed at least half of the team's Premier League goals in the 2024-25 season so far, along with Man City's Erling Haaland (55% - 12/22 goals) and Nottingham Forest's in-form striker Chris Wood (53% - 8/15 goals).
Ipswich - Man United head-to-head record
Ipswich have lost four of their previous five Premier League games against Man United, drawing one and failing to score in those defeats.
However, it is worth noting that there has been no meeting between the two teams in the Premier League since April 2002.
Man United won 1-0 at Portman Road in 2002. In fact, the Red Devils have not had 2 consecutive wins against their opponents at Portman Road since the 1962-1963 season. Hopefully Ruben Amorim will help the Devils repeat this achievement.
The Ipswich - Man United match will take place at 11:30 p.m. on November 24.
