Back to the Manchester United Newsfeed

United have waited 56 years for a week like this

Related Topics: Consecutive

The Whites were meant to visit Old Trafford on Sunday 18 September, but the fixture was postponed in the aftermath of The Queen's death.

Now, almost five months on, it has been rearranged for this coming Wednesday (8 February), and to make this hotly anticipated encounter even spicier, our trip to Elland Road follows just four days later.

Consecutive league games against the same opponents are exceedingly rare in the modern era.

According to our research, it's happened for United just once in the Premier League era, with the significant caveat that the back-to-back 3-1 wins over Bournemouth in 2016 occurred in separate seasons.