{"id":2089,"date":"2026-05-02T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:49:35","slug":"the-opposition-lowdown-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"The opposition lowdown: Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><strong>Key players<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Bruno Fernandes is one short of equalling the Premier League record for assists in a single season (20). <\/p>\n<p>The United captain has also chipped in with eight goals and missed just three of their games in the term.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Sesko is their leading scorer in the league and netted his 10th of the campaign against Brentford. <\/p>\n<p>Casemiro, who has announced he will be leaving in the summer, was also on the scoresheet versus the Bees \u2013 his ninth of the term, eight of which have been headers.<\/p>\n<p>The top-flight goal tallies of summer arrivals Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha currently stand at nine and eight respectively.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Previous meeting<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>United, then managed by Ruben Amorim, won the reverse fixture at Anfield 2-1 back in October.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Gakpo equalised Mbeumo&#8217;s early opener but the visitors left with the points after an 84th-minute winner from Harry Maguire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key players Bruno Fernandes is one short of equalling the Premier League record for assists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}