Man Utd vs Liverpool LIVE: Result and final score after Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford goals

He’ll play no part in tonight’s match but midfielder Casemiro has arrived at Old Trafford ahead of his transfer from Real Madrid:

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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 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?

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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.”