English Premier League---Manchester United VS Newcastle United Prediction

Manchester United VS Newcastle United    Livescore / H2H stats and Live Streaming
Time:27-12-2025 04:00 Saturday
-------------------------------
Match Preview:
Morgan Rogers's magical brace for Aston Villa - two strikes that came either side of a Matheus Cunha leveller - condemned Ruben Amorim's men to a 2-1 loss to the title-chasing Lions, snapping their four-game unbeaten sequence and representing just their second defeat since the start of October.

The result itself was gut-wrenching for the travelling faithful - whose side enter the festive round of fixtures sat seventh in the Premier League table - but the biggest loss of the day was arguably Bruno Fernandes trudging off with a hamstring injury; a true worst-case scenario for his manager.

Since the start of the 2022-23 Premier League season, Man United have played just seven top-flight games without their captain in the starting lineup, and they have failed to win any of them - suffering six losses and earning just one draw in that time.

Woltemade's quickfire brace was no less than he and Newcastle deserved in a dominant first half against the Club World Cup winners, but not for the first time this season, Eddie Howe's troops suffered a worrying capitulation as the Blues fought back to draw 2-2.

Sitting three points and four places worse off than Man United in the Premier League table, the Magpies are yet to clamber out of the bottom half and continue to be plagued by inconsistency, as evidenced by six wins, six losses and five draws this term.

Formerly famed for their defensive resilience under Howe, Newcastle have also failed to shut out the opposition in any of their last 10 matches, and the visitors still have just the one Premier League away win to their name this season.

Match Prediction: Manchester United 0-1 Newcastle United
Not only have Man Utd lost six of their last seven Premier League games without Fernandes in the first XI, they have only managed to score four goals in that time, so Amorim's men are hardly well-placed to capitalise on Newcastle's defensive absentees.

Howe's offensive line also strikes more fear into the hearts of defences than Amorim's hit-and-miss attack, and we can envisage this Boxing Day battle being settled by just the one goal - one goal that Newcastle should score.