Manchester United v Liverpool LIVE: FA Cup result and final score as Amad Diallo wins thriller in extra time
Manchester United beat their bitter rivals Liverpool in the most extraordinary FA Cup quarter-final at Old Trafford
Manchester United produced a stunning comeback to beat Liverpool 4-3 in an epic FA Cup quarter-final as Amad Diallo scored an 120th winner to deny Jurgen Klopp’s side their quadruple bid.
Diallo scored a breakaway goal at the death - and was then sent off for taking his shirt off in celebration - to send United through to Wembley in a dramatic finish at Old Trafford.
Liverpool had been minutes from the semi-finals, in what is Klopp’s final season at Anfield, but Marcus Rashford scored a 112th minute equaliser in extra time, before Diallo’s remarkable winner.
United will play Coventry City in the semi-finals, while the FA Cup draw handed holders Manchester City a Wembley date with Chelsea.
Follow live reaction from Manchester United vs Liverpool in the FA Cup quarter-finals below, and get the latest match odds and FA Cup tips here.
FA Cup semi-final draw to follow United-Liverpool
The semi-final draw will take place approximately 15 minutes after the final whistle in ITV1’s post-match coverage of Manchester United against Liverpool.
You can watch the draw on ITV1, or ITVX. If Man Utd v Liverpool is decided over 90 minutes, it will start at approximately 5:40pm. While extra-time and penalties will ensure the draw starts after 6:30pm.
Virgil van Dijk on ‘intense’ Liverpool-United rivalry
Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk on the “intense” rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester United:
“We always have a difficult games against them and I expect a difficult one on Sunday as well.
“They are finding ways to win but I focus on what we have to do against them. It’s always difficult, it’s always intense.
“The history of the games with the two biggest clubs in England brings extra expectation and pressure but why not just go out there and enjoy it, play our game and hopefully go to the next round?”
Manchester United handed Rasmus Hojlund injury boost
“We have, tomorrow [Saturday], one [training] session. We have to see how they recover from this, but it looks good,” said Ten Hag ahead of the Liverpool quarter-final.
“Some games are bigger than others, I think Manchester United against Liverpool is always a big game. I am looking forward to it.
“In such games, we always achieve good performances. I don’t think in any really high-rated game that we had any lows. They are very consistent, we need our best to beat them.”
Erik ten Hag gives Marcus Rashford transfer update after fresh PSG links
Erik ten Hag says Manchester United have no intention of selling Marcus Rashford this summer.
After signing a new five-year deal after hitting 30 goals last season, the 26-year-old academy product has scored just seven times in a poor campaign for all connected to the club.
Rashford was this week again linked with a move to Paris Saint-Germain, which could provide United with a huge windfall at a time of Premier League profit and sustainability considerations.
It would represent pure profit on that front as he is a homegrown player but Ten Hag says financial benefits are outweighed by the importance of the forward to the future.
Erik ten Hag gives Marcus Rashford transfer update after fresh PSG links
The 26-year-old academy product has scored just seven times in a poor campaign for all connected to the Old Trafford giants.
Man Utd have all the ingredients to reach next level under Ineos – Eric Ramsay
Eric Ramsay believes Manchester United have all the ingredients to go to the next level under Ineos – but Erik ten Hag’s former coach felt he had to leave for a dream first managerial job at Minnesota United.
The 32-year-old swapped Uniteds following March’s derby defeat at Manchester City, with his move to the Twin Cities seeing him become the youngest permanent manager in Major League Soccer history.
It is an exciting new chapter in an impressive coaching journey that led Ramsay to Swansea, Shrewsbury and Chelsea before joining Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s coaching set-up in June 2021.
Man Utd have all the ingredients to reach next level under Ineos – Eric Ramsay
The 32-year-old swapped Uniteds following March’s derby defeat at Manchester City.
How Virgil van Dijk used LeBron James advice to return to his towering best
Virgil van Dijk would like to retract his words. In the glow of glory, in the Wembley dressing room after he had provided the definition of leading by example, when his extra-time header had earned a makeshift Liverpool side the Carabao Cup, as he prepared to dance with teenaged teammates, he had declared: “They thought I was finished.”
If the sense was that Van Dijk felt he had proved his critics wrong, a few weeks later he averred: “I shouldn’t have said that.” His extended answer was more nuanced. If Liverpool’s 2022-23 represented alarming regression, Van Dijk’s season was mixed; not disastrous but not reaching his own high levels regularly enough. Coupled with the age of a defender who turned 32 in the summer and the cruciate ligament injury that meant he missed virtually all of the 2021-22 season, it added to a theory he was in understandable decline.
Yet now Van Dijk is resurgent, a status as a towering figure apparent when he earned Liverpool their first trophy under his captaincy. But his influence stretches beyond that. He has assumed his old status as the best centre-back in the Premier League. He is a potential Player of the Year.
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Jurgen Klopp provides Mohamed Salah fitness update after return to Liverpool line-up
Mohamed Salah is “definitely ready” for Manchester United with Jurgen Klopp praising his quadruple-chasing Liverpool team for the way they have coped without their top scorer but declaring they are a better side with his quality.
The Egyptian shone on his return to the Liverpool starting line-up for the first time since New Year’s Day on Thursday against Sparta Prague and scored one goal and made three others in a 6-1 rout.
And United have been his favourite opponent over the years with 12 goals against them – more than he has scored against any other club – including eight in his last five matches. The forward scored a hat-trick in a 5-0 win at Old Trafford and two goals in last season’s 7-0 thrashing at Anfield.
Relentless Mohamed Salah rises above Liverpool’s goalscoring legends with underrated trick
When Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool, the 20-goal barrier felt just that. In five of the seven previous seasons, Liverpool’s leading marksman finished with a tally in the teens. In 2016-17, the season they were scouting him at Roma, Philippe Coutinho led the way with 14.
In 2023-24, amid a rout of Sparta Prague, Salah made it 20 goals. That might not seem noteworthy, given he always does, given that he has raised the bar to such an extent that 30 can feel the new 20 for him. Salah has got there four times; he may yet make it 30 for a fifth campaign. Jurgen Klopp greeted news of the Egyptian’s 20th with a metaphorical shrug. “The stat is not really surprising, because he is an outstanding player,” he said.
Yet 20 is still a historic first. No one else had reached the milestone in seven successive seasons for Liverpool. Not Ian Rush or Kenny Dalglish, Robbie Fowler or Michael Owen, Kevin Keegan or Roger Hunt, not any of the succession of superb forwards who have graced Anfield. Instead, Salah has become Liverpool’s man for all seasons.
“In seven years together with him, the one problem we never had was consistency,” said Klopp. Salah, who never got 20 goals in a campaign before signing for Liverpool, has never failed to do so since then. His astonishing debut campaign on Merseyside yielded 44 but he has proved no one-season wonder.
“Mo is just delivering and delivering and delivering, his desire doesn’t stop, his quality is there and his desire to score doesn’t stop,” added Klopp. “He has improved in so many aspects since he started here. That’s how it is, he will not stop.”
Relentless Salah rises above Liverpool’s goalscoring legends with underrated trick
The Egyptian has now hit 20 or more goals for a seventh successive season, yet Jurgen Klopp is not surprised by the Liverpool forward’s prowess in front of goal
Manchester United handed triple injury boost ahead of Liverpool FA Cup quarter-final
Manchester United could be boosted by the return of Rasmus Hojlund, Harry Maguire and Aaron Wan-Bissaka when they face Liverpool in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Sunday.
Hojlund had scored in six games in a row for United before suffering an injury following the 2-1 win at Luton last month, leaving Erik ten Hag without a recognised striker.
Maguire has missed the club’s last three games and his return comes as United confirmed centre-back Jonny Evans had been “nursing a minor issue” in recent matches.
The FA Cup is United’s last chance of winning silverware this season, while Ten Hag’s side have the opportunity to deny Liverpool and Klopp their hopes of winning the quadruple in a huge game at Old Trafford.
Manchester United handed triple injury boost ahead of Liverpool FA Cup quarter-final
Rasmus Hojlund, Harry Maguire and Aaron Wan-Bissaka could return to Erik ten Hag’s side for the quarter-final clash at Old Trafford
Why Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool reign hints at bleak future for Erik ten Hag at Man Utd
For Erik ten Hag, Liverpool has represented the first high and perhaps the lowest low. His maiden win as Manchester United manager, nine days after the 4-0 shellacking at Brentford, came against Liverpool. So did his heaviest defeat, and United’s record loss in a fixture that dates back to the 19th century: 7-0 at Anfield last March.
Should Ten Hag get his marching orders this summer, the temptation will be to say that it started to unravel against Liverpool: United went there with two defeats in 32 matches and have now been beaten 22 times in little over a year. Should he go, though, there would be a historic first: never have United and Liverpool appointed a new manager in the same year. And probably, given the stature of the clubs, they would be considering some of the same candidates, competing to attract them.
Not if Ten Hag has his way. There is a resident argument at Old Trafford for affording managers time, and Sir Alex Ferguson is proof the road to success can be bumpy: his United finished second only to Kenny Dalglish’s Liverpool in 1988 and dipped to 11th the following season. Ten Hag’s drop from third to sixth may seem small in comparison, but comes in the context of a time when the superclubs’ budget is many times that of the rest of the division.
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