Man Utd vs Liverpool LIVE: Result and final score after Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford goals
Manchester United and Liverpool were both looking for their first win of the season after stuttering starts to their Premier League campaigns
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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester United beat Liverpool in the Premier League this evening thanks to Jadon Sancho’s early goal and Marcus Rashford’s second-half strike. Mohamed Salah replied late in the day but it was not enough to prevent defeat for the visitors on a memorable night for Erik ten Hag’s side.
The match was preceeded by a protest by United fans: anger among supporters at the ownership of the Glazer family is growing with each passing day and a protest was organised by underground fan group ‘The 1958’ ahead of tonight’s game. They marched from The Tollgate to The Trinity to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the Glazers and demand that the Americans sell up.
During the build-up to tonight’s match, Sky Sports broadcast an exclusive interview with Man Utd boss Ten Hag, conducted by Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher, grilling the Dutchman following the club’s dismal start to the campaign that has seen them outclassed in defeats to Brighton and Brentford. And the manager made a big call this evening by dropping captain Harry Maguire and superstar striker Cristiano Ronaldo to the bench, which was vindicated by the result.
Follow all the latest from the game below:
Casemiro arrives at Old Trafford
He’ll play no part in tonight’s match but midfielder Casemiro has arrived at Old Trafford ahead of his transfer from Real Madrid:
Liverpool landmarks
The Reds are four goals short of recording 800 in all competitions under manager Jurgen Klopp.
The team could also become the first in the club’s history to win on three successive league visits to Old Trafford if they defeat Manchester United tonight.
Manchester City’s title rivals can take some encouragement from Newcastle draw but not much
At the sound of the final whistle at St James’ Park, you wondered what the pretenders to Manchester City’s throne were thinking.
At Liverpool mainly, as that is where the only credible challenge is expected to come from, but also at Tottenham Hotspur, who are level on points with the champions after three games, and at Arsenal, who will find themselves sitting top of the pile if they take a premature look at the table. You wondered what the reaction might be at Chelsea too, despite them still reeling from defeat at Elland Road.
Thomas Tuchel’s side are only three points behind City, after all. Liverpool will move to within two if they beat Manchester United this evening. Yes, it probably is far too early to be discussing any of this. No gap is going to be insurmountable at this early stage. But after setting a breathless title-winning standard in four of the past five years, where anything less than a win may as well be a defeat, City dropped points.
Manchester City’s rivals can take encouragement from Newcastle draw but not much
City dropped points as an old weakness returned at St James’ Park
Is the current Man Utd team the worst of all time?
A new survey by YouGov for Betfair has revealed that 60% of Manchester United fans believe this current team is the worst of all time
Furthermore 69% of supporters agree that the Glazer family should sell the club and around 78% of United fans think the club need to make more signings before the summer transfer window closes next week.
Almost as depressing for supporters of the club is the fact that 55% of people who answered the survey believe Liverpool (19) will overtake Man United’s top-flight title record (20) in the next five years.
The biggest game in the Premier League
Fabinho claims that Manchester United versus Liverpool is the ‘biggest game in the Premier League’ and says he and his team-mates are looking forward to making the trip to Old Trafford.
“We know this is the biggest game here in the Premier League and it’s always good to play these games because the fans always want to win so it’s good for the morale as well,” the midfielder told Liverpoolfc.com.
“We need to win. We will go to Old Trafford with the mentality to win the game so we have some days to work before this game and we will work, and hopefully be in the best shape to play against Man United.
“This is a good opportunity for us as well to win three games in a row at Old Trafford. The last game was really good for us with the 5-0 win, for Mo [Salah] especially, so hopefully this last game will bring good memories for the team [to help us] play another good game at Old Trafford and win.”
Liverpool unbeaten in 2022
Despite their shaky start to the 2022/23 campaign following draws with Fulham and Crystal Palace Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool remain unbeaten in all 21 of their Premier League fixtures so far in 2022.
They have won 16 and drawn five in that run.
Manchester United and the Glazers’s debt explained
The Glazer family’s acquisition of Manchester United remains controversial to this day.
Their £790m takeover in the summer of 2005 came by way of a leveraged buyout: when a significant amount of borrowed money is used to fund the acquisition of a company, with the debt secured against that company itself.
In the case of this leveraged buyout, it was not just any company but one of the most famous and successful clubs in English and world football.
Manchester United and the Glazers’s debt explained
The Glazers’s ownership, made possible by a leveraged buyout in 2005, is under the microscope once again
History repeating?
Manchester United are the only team to have previously lost their opening two fixtures of the season before going on to win the Premier League title, doing so in 1992/93.
It was their first league title won in 26 years - and the first under manager Sir Alex Ferguson - so can history repeat itself this year?
Erik ten Hag’s side have lost their opening fixtures versus Brighton and Brentford but will a surprise victory over Liverpool spur them into a run of good form?
Ellen White announces retirement
Ellen White has announced her retirement from professional football at the age of 33 less than a month after she helped the Lionesses lift the European Championship trophy for the first time.
Klopp on Darwin Nunez’s red card
Liverpool’s new signing, Darwin Nunez, faces a spell on the sidelines after getting sent off for headbutting Joachim Andersen in the match against Crystal Palace and Jurgen Klopp was asked about how he handled the situation.
“Of course we spoke to Darwin and the reaction is like the reaction is in these situations. He was very disappointed with himself, obviously, that it happened. We spoke to him.” said the Liverpool boss,
“The things the centre-half [Andersen] did, he’s not the only player in the world who is doing these kind of things. Look, it’s a bit like that, if somebody makes such a mistake and you tell them, ‘[You] should not do it.’ ‘Yeah, I know.’ It’s about emotions, it’s about all these kind of things.
“We never had a situation like this before here as I know, pretty sure. That’s why I’m not an expert in these talks because I didn’t need to have it that often. But it was that obvious that he knew anyway. He apologised, which is absolutely fine.
“We told him that it’s not necessary to [be] walking through the building head down, miserable, stuff like this, because it happened. That’s it.
“We are human beings and maybe made mistakes in our lives and will make mistakes in our life and then you have to carry on. If you don’t do it again then it’s all fine. It happened once and it’s OK.”
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