Liverpool underlined their superiority over Manchester United with a superb 4-0 thrashing at Anfield. Here, we’ve picked out 18 incredible stats that emphasise their dominance.
Jurgen Klopp’s Reds keep snapping at Manchester City’s heels in the Premier League title race, and remain hopeful of an unprecedented quadruple after another big win over their biggest rivals.
Former United heroes like Roy Keane and Gary Neville spoke of their pessimism about the Red Devils getting a result on their visit to Merseyside, and it took just four minutes for their worst fears to be realised.
Luis Diaz opened the scoring early on after Mohamed Salah ripped through the United defence. Salah doubled Liverpool’s lead in the 22nd minute, putting the finishing touch to a sensational Liverpool move that came during a ridiculously dominant first half.
The visitors came back into the game after the break, but couldn’t find a way past Liverpool’s defence, and once again Klopp’s men showed a ruthless edge as Sadio Mane got in on the act before Salah added the gloss with his second and Liverpool’s fourth in the closing stages.
“I don’t expect us for 95 minutes to be completely in charge of the game. I think we were for 65 to 70 minutes, and for 20 minutes United caused us a bit more problems,” was Klopp’s post-match analysis in his interview with Sky Sports.
“First half, we were really, really in charge of the game. You wish you could pick it up again from there, but it is 15 minutes break and we needed 15 minutes to be ourselves again. Our counter-press was second to none. A really good game, wonderful goals, everyone is happy.
“United is not in a good moment, but they will come back. As for our fans, they can enjoy it.”
United boss Ralf Rangnick predictably had a different demeanour and pulled no punches when it came to his assessment.
“They showed what calibre they are. We are not up for it, we are not good enough to get points in a game against…