Fulham vs Manchester United Predictions

• Manchester United have won on their last eight visits to Craven Cottage
• Fulham have lost five of their last eight Premier League home matches
• Matheus Cunha has scored three goals on his last two visits to Fulham

United return to happy hunting ground

Manchester United showed enough improvement in their opening match of the season to warrant support when they travel to Craven Cottage on Sunday.

The Red Devils generally had the better of Arsenal at Old Trafford, but lost the match 1-0 on a weak piece of goalkeeping from Altay Bayandir. The Turkish goalkeeper could be dropped for United’s trip to one of their happiest hunting grounds, where they have won on eight successive occasions.

Ruben Amorim’s side scraped a 1-0 victory over Marco Silva’s Whites in January last year thanks to a deflected long-range effort from Lisandro Martinez and a Toby Collyer goalline clearance. It was one of only four away league wins they recorded last season, the club’s fewest since 1988-89.

Cunha could bring a cutting edge

Winning at home was a problem for Amorim too, and his side again failed to deliver three points against the Gunners. But there was a much better attitude, tempo and level of cohesion about the performance than what has generally gone before.

United’s wing-backs took up higher starting positions instead of falling into a back five and the two new inside forwards, Bryan Mbuemo and Matheus Cunha, looked bright on their competitive debuts for the club.

Mbuemo continually found space on the right while Cunha probably should have scored after wriggling free of Arsenal defenders to draw a couple of saves from David Raya. The ex-Wolves star has scored three goals on his last two trips to Fulham and could be United’s dangerman on Sunday.

Fulham have been failing to deliver at home 

Fulham left it late to claim a 1-1 draw at Brighton with Rodrigo Muniz proving to be their man on the spot after a corner dropped his way. The Cottagers trailed for most of the game and were fortunate not to concede further goals on the counter-attack after Matt O’Riley’s spot-kick.

Silva will be looking to add to his squad right up to the transfer deadline because they look a little bit short on depth in defensive areas.

This is probably a good time for United to be playing them and, if they can sharpen up their finishing, Amorim’s side have enough quality to get all three points on the banks of the River Thames. Fulham lost five of their last eight home league games last term, losing the expected goals (xG) battle in five of their last six at the Cottage.