Sunday 05 October 2025 11:43
Ruben Amorim recorded a victory in his 50th game as head coach of Manchester United.
The 2-0 win at Old Trafford against Sunderland in the Premier League was the perfect way to commemorate the milestone, thanks to goals from Mason Mount and Benjamin Sesko in the first half.
But the triumph also broke a duck no United boss since Sir Alex Ferguson has managed to overcome.
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Amorim is the first manager to win his 50th match in charge of United since Ferguson, who achieved the same feat back in November 1987 away at Bury, according to stats from Opta.
David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Erik ten Hag were all tripped up when reaching the same juncture in their Reds careers, but the Portuguese incumbent avoided the same fate.
Ruben has admitted that results since he joined the club in November last year have not been up to the standard he expects, but our win against the Black Cats is our third consecutive top-flight triumph at home, which we last managed between April and August 2023.
It also extended another record: we have now gone unbeaten in our last 24 Premier League games against newly promoted sides, 21 of those being wins.
That stretches back to November 2021, with Watford being the last top-tier newcomer to overcome the Reds on that day – they were also the last promoted team to stop the Reds scoring in our 0-0 draw in February 2022.
January will provide a big test for that run, when we travel to Leeds United and Burnley consecutively within the space of a week.
For now, however, after celebrating a positive milestone-hitting outing, attention will quickly turn to a testing Anfield trip to face Liverpool in our next league assignment.
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