The match report is in.
“An evening of some redemption for Manchester United was not without its customary agony at Anfield,” Andy Hunter writes from Anfield.
“Seconds remained of a gripping battle between the two old rivals when Joshua Zirkzee, taunted mercilessly by the Old Trafford faithful on Monday, found himself staring down at Alisson’s goal.
“He spurned the shot at glory in favour of teeing up Harry Maguire, another maligned figure during United’s long fall from grace. He found Row Z of the Anfield Road Stand, and United’s wait for a first win at Liverpool in nine years goes on. Ruben Amorim sank to his haunches as the late miss unfolded and soon exited down the Anfield tunnel, although there was much to encourage the troubled United head coach here.”
Read the full report below.
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That’s all from me, folks. Good night.
Bruno Fernandes on Sky Sports: “It’s a fair result, but we can’t be satisfied, if we showed this all year, why can’t we do this every week. Finally I did a proper performance overall. We need much more from ourselves. We need some pride out because it isn’t enough. We need to look forward.”
96 mins: Robertson gives away a silly foul on Amad just outside the box. One last try then for United. Bruno floats it in, then cleared, then Ugarte passes to Zirkzee who plays in Maguire in front of the goal and he blazes it over! Oh my, that was nearly the winner!
Full-time: Liverpool 2 Manchester United 2
Brilliant game that. Thrilling and tense, it had everything!
94 mins: Salah with a dangerous run and wins a corner after his shot is blocked. Seven minutes stoppage time so still plenty can happen. United clear the corner well.
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 2
91 mins: Then a chance from the corner, Van Dijk had a header from six yards out and straight at the keeper. From that United counter. End to end stuff. Ends up with a blocked shot for United.
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 2
89 mins: Zirkzee intercepts a Konate pass just outside the box. Garnacho finds it tougher against Bradley, who stands up strong but United win a corner. From it, Fernandes plays a one-two and shoots well from outside the box, saved by Alisson. Goes to Amad at the back post, who shoots and it’s cleared. Then Liverpool counter at pace. An unbelievable last-gasp tackle by Yoro in the box on Nunez, then Bradley beats Fernandes and nearly beats Onana at the front post!
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 2
86 mins: Thrilling game this one, United not sitting back. Bruno Fernandes has had his best game in a United shirt for a long time, causing Liverpool lots of problems, particularly down the right side where Alexander-Arnold has had a nightmare. He comes off for Tyrone’s Conor Bradley for the last few minutes. Meanwhile, Zirkzee comes on for Hojlund.
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 2
83 mins: Big chance on the counter for United, it was 3 on 2 for a while, until Van Dijk saved the day with a block on Garnacho.
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 2
80 mins: GOAL FOR MANCHESTER UNITED! Amad Diallo scores after a low cross from Garnacho to the penalty spot. Good through ball by Bruno to play him in. Liverpool are stunned.
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 2
78 mins: Nasty foul by Nunez on De Ligt, looked at him then barged into his face, just a yellow card. Unnecessary and he’s suspended for the next match.
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 1
75 mins: Yellow card for Maguire which seems harsh after what looked a relatively clean tackle on Salah just outside the box. Dangerous free-kick, 25 yards out centrally. Salah’s free-kick is well struck but just over.
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 1
72 mins: Liverpool the ones growing in confidence now. Mainoo off for Garnacho as Amorim looks for an equaliser.
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 1
70 mins: GOAL FOR LIVERPOOL! Mo Salah converts, Onana nearly saved it but the strike was too strong from the penalty.
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 1
68 mins: Handball call by Liverpool on De Ligt, VAR check. Was a cross by Alexander Arnold, Mac Allister headed and the header clearly hit his hand. Can’t argue with that one.
Liverpool 1 Manchester United 1
64 mins: Lively pace to this now. Dalot causing Alexander-Arnold plenty of problems and puts in another dangerous cross. Mazroaui then with another one as United pile on the power, important header clearance by Konaté. From the counter from the corner, De Ligt is booked for taking out Nunez.
Liverpool 1 Manchester United 1
60 mins: GOAL FOR LIVERPOOL! Gakpo with a brilliant goal when not much was happening. From a corner, Mac Allister plays in Gakpo with a sumptous through ball, Gakpo feints De Ligt and put it top corner.
Liverpool 1 Manchester United 1
57 mins: United growing in confidence! Mainoo has a shot and Alisson just about deals with it and Konaté clears for a corner. Alisson punches away then a counter by Liverpool, but Díaz way overhits a pass to Salah, which sums up Liverpool’s day so far.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 1
53 mins: GOAL FOR MANCHESTER UNITED! Lisandro Martinez of all players. The centre-back smashes it into the roof of the net as he was up the field after intercepting a misplaced Alexander-Arnold pass. Tremenodous composure from Bruno to dribble and pass him in and Martinez found himself in behind the defence. Great finish, wow.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 1
50 mins: A long ball by Onana goes over everyone and Dalot is through but Van Dijk recovers with a great block.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
Second half is under way.
48 mins: Robertson flies down the wing and wins a corner. Van Dijk comes up for it. The corner goes right on top of Onana, who punches it away but not convincingly. They survive though.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
45 mins: Two minutes stoppage time. Some chaos in the United box as Diaz slaloms in but can’t get a shot away. Alexander-Arnold overhits a through ball to Salah, he’s had a poor first half here amid rumours he will be going to Real Madrid in the summer.
Half-time: Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
Well then, United arguably the better team there, nobody was expecting that. Looking far better than previous games. But nothing to show for it, and will expect a Liverpool avalanche in the second half.
43 mins: Lovely ball in behind by Mainoo for Fernandes who tries another outside of the boot pass but it’s cleared away. Ugarte and Mainoo getting stuck in.
Then big chance for United! Hojlund gets in behind one on one after a superb pass by Martinez but Alisson stands up strong and makes an important save. Was straight at him. Counter by Liverpool but Salah’s shot is well wide.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
A cold day at Anfield.
37 mins: Good defending by United against Liverpool pressure so far. They have been aggressive in their tackling and looking solid.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
34 mins: A few big tackles going in by United, two great ones by Maguire and De Ligt to show United are up for this.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
30 mins: Good shot by Gravenbech after he ran from midfield, powerful low shot from outside the box but just wide.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
28 mins: Nice nutmeg by Mazroaui as United grow in confidence. Liverpool not creating a lot outside of that 5-minute spell where they had three chances. Even game so far.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
25 mins: Decent spell for United, Bruno with a good cross into the box, which is headed towards goal by Maguire but hits off De Ligt and offside. Then Dalot gets a yellow card as Salah got the other side of him and he had his hands on him.
Then Bruno at the heart of things again, puts a good ball to Hojlund who runs into the box and puts in a good cross down the right, just about cleared by Konate. United targeting the side of Alexander-Arnold with some joy so far.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
21 mins: Oh dear. Big chance for United. Lovely ball by Bruno Fernandes, trivela outside of the box, Dalot puts in a great chance for Amad who completely miscues the header backwards when he had a chance to score.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
18 mins: Konaté back in the line-up today after 6 weeks and is looking sharp as Liverpool assert their dominance on the game. A brilliant pass by Salah from a Konaté long ball leaves Mac Allister with a big chance in front of the goal but his low shot is very well saved by Onana.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
15 mins: Chance for Liverpool after a bright passage of play. Poor clearance by Martinez but makes up for it with a block from an Alexander-Arnold shot outside the box. Then it comes to Diaz who fires it over the bar.
Then another chance for Liverpool! United torn apart as Diaz plays in Gravenberch with Hojlund not following the run. He plays in Gakpo in behind and from about 10 yards out just misses the target from a tight angle with Onana closing down.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
12 mins: Not too much in the way of incident so far but Amorim will be pleased with the start his team has made. Ugarte catches Gakpo on the counter but is lucky to escape a yellow card.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
7 mins: Salah gets down the wing for Liverpool’s first significant attack of the game but his shot is blocked by Maguire and eventually out for a corner but it’s punches away and then cleared.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
4 mins: Mainoo is back up and takes the ball off an unsuspecting Liverpool player as United advanced to the Liverpool box. Dalot looks to have beaten Alexander-Arnold with a run down the left but the full-back recovers just in time.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
2 mins: Under way at Anfield. A trailing leg from Gravenberch to Mainoo’s head leaves him needing treatment in the first few minutes.
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0
Barney Ronay’s match preview focuses on Rúben Amorim and the tough task he has at United.
“Welcome to the meat grinder. Amorim has gone almost overnight from notions of perfectibility, systems, control, six-month unbeaten runs, to looking like a catalogue knitwear model having an existential crisis, bowed under the weight of all that scar tissue, the ghosts in the eaves, the voices through the wall.”
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There was an Irish scorer in the early Premier League game between Ipswich Town and Fulham, and another from a son of an Irish international. Sammie Szmodics and Liam Delap were both on target to give Ipswich a 2-1 lead over Fulham heading into stoppage time, but Raul Jimenez scored a late penalty to leave it a 2-2 draw. Still another point on the board for Kieran McKenna’s men as they edge towards safety.
Hello and welcome to live coverage of the Premier League game between Liverpool and Manchester United at Anfield, kickoff is at 4.30pm. The snow has called off plenty of sport in Ireland and the UK but despite significant snowfall last night, the game will go ahead at Merseyside. The two most successful teams in English football couldn’t be on more different trajectories at the moment. Liverpool can’t be stopped, with a five-point lead in the Premier League and two games in hand, whereas United are languishing down in 14th place with only six wins from their 19 games so far this season. All signs point to a comfortable Liverpool victory, but stranger things have happened.
Here are the teams:
Liverpool: Alisson Becker; Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konaté, Andy Robertson; Ryan Gravenberch, Curtis Jones, Alexis Mac Allister; Mohamed Salah, Luis Díaz, Cody Gakpo. Subs: Caoimhín Kelleher, Wataru Endo, Darwin Nunez, Federico Chiesa, Diogo Jota, Konstantinos Tsimikas, Jarell Quansah, Conor Bradley
Manchester United: André Onana; Noussair Mazraoui, Matthijs de Ligt, Harry Maguire, Lisandro Martinez, Diogo Dalot; Manuel Ugarte, Kobbie Mainoo; Bruno Fernandes, Amad Diallo, Rasmus Hojlund. Subs: Altay Bayındır, Tyrell Malacia, Leny Yoro, Casemiro, Toby Collyer, Christian Eriksen, Antony, Alejandro Garnacho, Joshua Zirkzee.
