The problem with playing in a set style is it can be sussed and Liverpool don't have a plan B. If (maybe a big if) we can make it through the first 35-40 mins without conceding they will be knackered and frustrated and I think we'll win. There's been plenty of evidence of how to beat the press in the last few weeks, hope we learn from it.
FA Premier League
Liverpool 0:0 Manchester United
Anfield
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I am wondering how Herrera-Pogba-Mata would do to counter Liverpool's pace based pressing set up, considering we won't have a physical presence in the midfield who can muscle them off the ball.
On the same note, I wonder how Liverpool's no-DM based approach would affect them if and when we counter them.Bayern Munich Vs Real Madrid when Madrid hammered them. Thats how you do it.
Liverpool are athletic, fast, agile and press with great tempo. There's isn't a match this season that the slow and technically deficient Fellaini is less suited for.
If either Rooney or Fellaini plays we will lose.If we go with Pogba-Herrera-Mata in midfield (with Pogba allowed to get forward) and play like we did against Leicester this will be a hell of a game of football, and once which we could probably win. However Jose has struggled with Klopp in the past, and I don't imagine that changing any time soon.
Agreed. May as well put them in a Liverpool shirt.Think we are losing this.We're going to get hammered.Great to see such positivity.
I'd rather he didn't play, but if it's a midfield two vs a three including Fellaini I know which I'd prefer.
Schneiderlin and Carrick don't seem to be getting a look in.I'd have Martial and Mkhitaryan in for Rashford and Lingard. Rashford off the bench if we really need a result.
Then we have Blind as an option. He's tactically sound as well as being good on the ball and reliable in possession.
Fellaini is none of those things.Form goes out of the window in these games. I just hope we can get the three points.Jesus, this is a long way away.
Yes, me, too.I hope to god that half the posters on here are going to the game. The negativity would sicken the most positive of people.
Expecting a cracker of a game. Tough fixture but still winnable.It's all about damage limitation. If we only lose by two goals, it would be a fantastic result.
Put them in your line-up prediction then - and I sure you'll get two wrong.
Altough I share the stance that Liverpool play better than United right now and are more likely to win, the result is far from certain. Just ask Madrid who couldn't beat fecking Eibar at home. Football oucomes are bloody unpredictable at times. Key is to be ready to fight and run, run, run. Then everything becomes possible.Not worried.
Liverpool were shit against Swansea. Their defense is shit. Most of their players are shit. Shit.
We'll win 1-3
had to laugh at this but I wouldn't be surprised if we do get spanked.DDG
Valencia-Bailly-Smalling-Shaw
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-----Ander----------Pogba-----
Rashford----------------Martial
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Is what I would like to see, plenty of pace at the back on the flanks and mobility in the middle. We can hurt them on the counter but our wide-men need to be on their game. I'm going for a 1-1 draw.Agree with the Schneiderlin/herrera/Pogba midfield line ups. Morgan will have to play a blinder but that's our best chance to nullify their attack.Sort the midfield balance and we can get a result there. We can definitely score goals against their defence.
I wish people wouldn't sit on the fence like thisFeck sake even Van Gaal got two Anfield wins. Stop gurning, it's a long way away.
It has a Wayne Rooney assist written all over it.If we play like we did against Stoke, we'll win. You don't come away from a performance like that without three points twice in a row.
Problem is Liverpool won't play like Stoke, they are much better than them and will create much more chances.
They won't defend that well either though.
Stoke defend better than Liverpool? Are you been sarcastic here?
Liverpool have conceded only 2 goals more than United and have already played Arsenal, Spurs, and Chelsea away. Stoke have conceded 16 goals so far. Only Wham have conceded more goals in the entire league.
IMO, we should put much more effort vs Liverpool and show entirely different energy levels to look good on the pitch. Otherwise, the game will be very onesided. It's not impossible for the team to run much more than vs Stoke.Last edited:Even if we play Ander and Carrick as holding mids in front of the defense, we will get plunked but if Mou insists on playing Rooney or another #10 then feck it, we will get destroyed. Pogba, Herrera and Carrick/Schneiderlin please.It'll be:
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-----Tony V--------Bailly--------------------Smalling--------Shaw
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--------------------------------Zlatan------------------------------Hang on a minute. Didn't Jose's Chelsea beat LFC, by playing negative football? So much so that Suarez complained to a Chelsea player, that what CFC were doing was unfair?
Why can't Jose pull out another such tactic to absolutely suffocate LFC?
Jose is a master tactician, so we shouldn't count ourselves out of this match, so easily.
I'd love to see Jose put up a really negative tactic and make LFC players (and their manager) angry. Klopp looks like he is not far away from killing someone and with a bit of luck, he might get himself sent to the stands, along with 1 or 2 of his players.
I think frustrating LFC and preventing them from playing their game is the key to winning this one. It'll be boring and negative, but we cannot afford to keep drawing/losing. We need to play for the result here.
This, if you can't overpower your rival with your style, you have to undermine theirs. They thrive in quick, direct football? Then wait at the back and close space between lines, tire them running after the ball like dogs when you have it and then kill them with counters.Don't care how...just win. Whether we park a jumbojet in front of our defense or not, I'll take a win.
This fixture demands only that.DavidIf we are winning an need to protect a lead we should go to a 4-2-3-1 with Carrick and Ander holding. Rooney should even't be in the 18, this is a fixture he seldom plays well in.
Antonio Eric Chris Daley
Ander
Juan Paul
Marcus Anthony
Zlatan
In the last 15 years,how many great perfomances can you count from us at Anfield?Finally a game on at a reasonable(ish) time
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Score Predictions
372,338,176
- Man Utd win
- Liverpool win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 19% Liverpool 1:2 Man Utd
- 10% Liverpool 3:1 Man Utd
- 9% Liverpool 2:1 Man Utd
- 9% Liverpool 1:1 Man Utd
- 8% Liverpool 2:2 Man Utd
- 7% Liverpool 2:0 Man Utd
- 6% Liverpool 0:1 Man Utd
- 5% Liverpool 3:0 Man Utd
- 5% Liverpool 1:3 Man Utd
- 4% Liverpool 0:2 Man Utd
- 3% Liverpool 2:3 Man Utd
- 3% Liverpool 0:0 Man Utd
- 2% Liverpool 0:3 Man Utd
- 2% Liverpool 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Liverpool 0:5 Man Utd
- 1% Liverpool 3:2 Man Utd
- 1% Liverpool 4:1 Man Utd
- 1% Liverpool 4:0 Man Utd
- 1% Liverpool 2:4 Man Utd
- 1% Liverpool 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% Liverpool 1:4 Man Utd
- 1% Liverpool 1:5 Man Utd
- 0% Liverpool 5:1 Man Utd
- 0% Liverpool 4:5 Man Utd
- 0% Liverpool 3:3 Man Utd
- 0% Liverpool 4:2 Man Utd
- 0% Liverpool 0:4 Man Utd
- 0% Liverpool 4:3 Man Utd
Match Stats
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- Man Utd
- Possession
- 65% 35%
- Shots
- 9 7
- Shots on Target
- 3 1
- Corners
- 3 1
- Fouls
- 14 20
Referee
Anthony Taylor
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