On 4 September, United obtained their fourth consecutive league victory with a 3–1 home win against rivals Arsenal. Sancho scored the only goal after 23 minutes. On 1 September, United achieved a second away victory as they won 1–0 against Leicester City. Casemiro made his United debut when he came on as a substitute in the 80th minute. Bruno Fernandes scored the game's only goal with a volley as United won their first away match in the league since February 2022. In the next match, United visited Southampton on 27 August. This was United's first league win against Liverpool since 10 March 2018. Jadon Sancho scored 15 minutes into the first half and Marcus Rashford early in the second, before Mohamed Salah scored a consolation goal that made him the fixture's outright top scorer with 10 goals. On 22 August, United achieved their first league victory of the season, a 2–1 home win against rivals Liverpool. Erik ten Hag became the first United manager since John Chapman in 1921 to lose his opening two games in charge of the club. That season, United lost both of their meetings with Brentford: 4–0 away on 10 October 1936 and 3–1 on 13 February 1937 those were United's most recent defeats to Brentford prior to this. This was United's seventh straight away defeat in the league, their worst streak since a run of 10 in the 1936–37 season, which ended in relegation from the First Division. The rest of the game went goalless, but it meant United went bottom of the league table. Josh Dasilva, Mathias Jensen, Ben Mee and Bryan Mbeumo all scored without reply before the clock had reached 38 minutes. United then suffered another defeat to Brentford, the first time they had started a league campaign with consecutive losses since the 1992–93 season. Lisandro Martínez and Christian Eriksen made their debuts for United alongside Tyrell Malacia who came on as a substitute. Pascal Groß scored twice in the first half for Brighton before they conceded an own goal by Alexis Mac Allister in the second to give United their first ever home defeat to Brighton. The league season began with a home loss against Brighton & Hove Albion on 7 August. The 2022–23 Premier League fixtures were released on 16 June 2022.
Sancho 12', Fred 30', Martial 33', Pellistri 76' Amad Diallo scored first early in the second half before Álvaro García equalised nine minutes later. The next day, United played another Madrid club, Rayo Vallecano, in a match that featured Cristiano Ronaldo for the first time. A week later, United suffered their first defeat in pre-season against Atlético Madrid, following a late goal from João Félix. Four days later, United led Aston Villa 2–0 in the first half via Sancho and a Matty Cash own goal before goals from Leon Bailey and Calum Chambers equalised for the Birmingham club. On 19 July, United led Crystal Palace 3–0 first via Martial, Rashford, and Sancho before a goal from Joel Ward pulled one back for the London club.
The tour resumed in Australia, where United came back from a goal down – scored by Chris Ikonomidis – to beat Melbourne Victory 4–1 goals from Scott McTominay, Martial, Marcus Rashford and an own goal from Victory youngster Edmond Lupancu maintained United's 100% start to pre-season. United began the tour with a 4–0 win over rivals Liverpool goals from Jadon Sancho, Fred and Anthony Martial put them 3–0 up by half-time, before Facundo Pellistri added a fourth less than 15 minutes from the end. A home match, Erik ten Hag's first as United manager, was confirmed against Rayo Vallecano for 31 July. A trip to Norway was also confirmed for a fixture against Atlético Madrid. A third friendly in Australia was later added, against Aston Villa. United confirmed the first of their tour destinations, travelling to Bangkok, Thailand and Melbourne, Australia to face Liverpool in the Bangkok Century Cup, Melbourne Victory and Crystal Palace.
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