Matches between Liverpool and Manchester United are always football holidays on the Island, and it will be the same this Sunday, even though the biggest derby in English football seems to have a big favorite like never before.
The "Reds", as the leaders of the Premier League and the team that has only been defeated once this year, will welcome the "devils" at their "Anfield" starting at 17.30:XNUMX p.m., which the change of coach did not manage to wake up this time either.
At the top, Liverpool are an unreal 23 points clear of United, who arrived in the city on the River Mersey on the back of four successive defeats in all competitions.
- This rivalry will always exist, but right now it's a different story on the field. Whoever he chooses Arne Slott, his colleague Reuben Amorim and United will fail to stop. The result will not be double digits, but anything else is possible - Liverpool will celebrate, the only question is by what margin - he wrote Chris Sutton from BBC, former Chelsea, Blackburn, Celtic striker...
And that the current form in such matches, however, does not necessarily mean much, Liverpool learned last year when they also fought for the title, dominated at "Old Trafford", but in the end had to settle for 2:2. Some time before that, the great rival eliminated him from the FA Cup.
- United is much better than the table says - Slot was clear at the press conference.
The man who started great things from the first day on the Liverpool bench believes that the new coach of the "Devils" should be given time.
- Maybe Amorim will need some time to get the best out of the players, but they are much better than the 14th place they currently hold - added Slot, who could become the first coach since George Kay from the 1936/37 season, who defeated United in his first two matches on the Reds' bench.
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goals scored by Mohamed Salah against United, the most by any player in Premier League history. The Liverpool striker scored six goals against his great rival
The manager of "Reds" emphasized that Joe Gomez will not be ready for this match, but that they have started training Ibrahim Konata i Conor Bradley. However, it is expected that next to Virdžila van Dajka to start young as a stopper Jerrell Quans.
After the great things he did with Sporting Lisbon, Ruben Amorim arrived at the "Theater of Dreams" at the most difficult time possible. At first, it seemed that he managed to wake up the team, a victory came against Manchester City, but after that match, the "devils" returned to the old and bad things, so they tied four defeats.
- Is the struggle for survival a reality? And that's a possibility - our fans should understand that too - Amorim was honest after the defeat against Newcastle in the last match of 2024
The numbers show how hard work awaits him today, since United won only once in the last 13 matches against Liverpool, and that was in 2016, when Wayne Rooney was the scorer, while at "Anfield" they are without a victory in the last eight games.
In addition, in those eight matches he only scored once, while in the last five he didn't manage to do that either.
- I don't think about what happened, my focus is to prepare the team for the new match... I want to see the progress of the players, not defeat - added Amorim.
The match in the first part of the season played at "Old Trafford" ended with Liverpool winning 3:0.
Sunday, also the day for "Derby dela kapitale"
The new year has just started, and as they say in England, it already brings "Super Sunday".
In addition to the super match at "Anfield", the big derby will also be played in Rome, where Roma will welcome Lazio from 20.45:XNUMX.
"Vučica" started to play with the arrival of Claudio Ranieri, but it is still very far from the biggest rival, since our Adam Marušić's team has as many as 15 points more in the Serie A table.
However, the "whites" have slowed down a bit recently, they were shaken up by the disaster against Inter (6:0), so it is clear that Roma will have something to hope for in the famous "Derby of capital".
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