FTMatchday 34

Manchester United vs Brentford: Prediction

📍 Old Trafford

Manchester United2

Brentford1

Not enough past results yet.

Match events

3 goals

Manchester UnitedBrentford

Luke Shawyellow card6'
Casemiroassist Harry Maguire11'
40'Sepp van den Bergyellow card
Benjamin Šeškoassist Bruno Fernandes43'
Amad Dialloon46'
71'Dango Ouattarayellow card
Luke Shawon73'
73'Kevin Schadeon
Bryan Mbeumoon74'
76'Igor Thiagoyellow card
87'Mathias Jensenassist Reiss Nelson
Benjamin Šeškoon88'
Joshua Zirkzeeyellow card90'
90'Nathan Michael Collinsyellow card

Events from TheSportsDB. They can lag the live score by a few minutes.

Match stats

Manchester UnitedBrentford

45%Possession55%
1.36Expected goals (xG)1.17
11Shots12
6Shots on target4
7Corners8
6Fouls9
2Yellow cards4
0Red cards0
1Offsides2
5Saves3
414Passes497

Line-ups

Manchester United

23Luke Shaw
5Harry Maguire
18Casemiro
8Bruno Fernandes
2Diogo Dalot
16Amad Diallo
19Bryan Mbeumo
31Senne Lammens
30Benjamin Šeško
37Kobbie Mainoo
26Ayden Heaven

Brentford

4Sepp van den Berg
1Caoimhín Kelleher
24Mikkel Damsgaard
8Mathias Jensen
22Nathan Michael Collins
23Keane Lewis-Potter
7Kevin Schade
19Dango Ouattara
33Michael Kayode
18Yehor Yarmolyuk
9Igor Thiago

Tipster consensus

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Most likely score–

Expected goals (model)–

Team rating (Elo)1502 – 1541

Recent form

Manchester UnitedLWDLW

BrentfordDDDDD

#	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United	38	+19	71
2	Brentford	38	+3	53

Head to head

Brentford 3–1 Manchester United2025-09-27

Match preview

Manchester United host Brentford in the Premier League on 27 April 2026. Manchester United sit 3rd on 71 points and Brentford are 9th on 53. Manchester United have won 2 of their last 5 (LWDLW), while Brentford have won 0 of 5 (DDDDD). In their last 1 meetings, Manchester United won 0, Brentford won 1 and 0 ended level. These are probabilities from past results, not guarantees: football upsets happen every week.

How this is worked out

Each club has an Elo rating that moves after every result (bigger wins move it more, home sides get a small boost). We turn the rating gap into expected goals and use a Poisson model to get win, draw and loss chances. The prediction is locked at kick-off and never edited.

Probabilities, not promises. For analysis and entertainment only. 18+.