Man Utd vs Liverpool LIVE: Result and final score after Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford goals
Manchester United and Liverpool were both looking for their first win of the season after stuttering starts to their Premier League campaigns
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Manchester United beat Liverpool in the Premier League this evening thanks to Jadon Sancho’s early goal and Marcus Rashford’s second-half strike. Mohamed Salah replied late in the day but it was not enough to prevent defeat for the visitors on a memorable night for Erik ten Hag’s side.
The match was preceeded by a protest by United fans: anger among supporters at the ownership of the Glazer family is growing with each passing day and a protest was organised by underground fan group ‘The 1958’ ahead of tonight’s game. They marched from The Tollgate to The Trinity to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the Glazers and demand that the Americans sell up.
During the build-up to tonight’s match, Sky Sports broadcast an exclusive interview with Man Utd boss Ten Hag, conducted by Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher, grilling the Dutchman following the club’s dismal start to the campaign that has seen them outclassed in defeats to Brighton and Brentford. And the manager made a big call this evening by dropping captain Harry Maguire and superstar striker Cristiano Ronaldo to the bench, which was vindicated by the result.
Follow all the latest from the game below:
Manchester United vs Liverpool line-ups
Man Utd XI: De Gea, Dalot, Varane, Martínez, Malacia, Eriksen, McTominay, Elanga, Fernandes, Sancho, Rashford
Liverpool XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson; Henderson, Elliott, Milner; Diaz, Firmino, Salah
Erik ten Hag convinced he will succeed at Old Trafford
Erik ten Hag is not daunted by the challenge of rebuilding Manchester United and is convinced that he will succeed at Old Trafford, having insisted that his track record in management shows he will “get it done”.
Ahead of Monday night’s visit of historic rivals Liverpool, United sit one place off the bottom of the Premier League table after losing both of their opening games against Brighton and Hove Albion and Brentford in humiliating fashion.
United’s miserable form comes against a backdrop of supporter unrest against the Glazer family’s ownership, with a protest planned outside Old Trafford before kick-off against Liverpool.
‘I get it done’: Erik ten Hag convinced he will succeed at Manchester United
Ten Hag hoping to avoid third successive defeat against Liverpool on Monday night
Klopp on injuries
Jurgen Klopp spoke about Liverpool’s injury crisis and pretty much confirmed that replacing players in the transfer window isn’t really an option saying: “We have more injuries than we would have imagined and it would be cool to have another midfielder in, of course.
“Then there is also another fact that I am not in charge of what we can spend. That’s the situation.”
We have to be prepared says Fernandes
Bruno Fernandes believes that tonight’s game is the perfect one for Manchester United to bounceback with following their two defeats so far this season.
“I have been saying this to a lot of people, there’s no better game to bounce back than playing against probably the biggest rival that we have,” Fernandes said “It’s Monday night, at a full stadium with big support from our fans like always, so we have to be prepared. “We know we have to give something back to them, it was a tough season, [the] last one, and a tough beginning of this season but we have to bounce back, and this is the right time to do it and we have to do it [tonight].”
Ten Hag on Brentford defeat
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag says the attitude of his players was to blame for the heavy 4-0 defeat at Brentford.
“I think I made myself clear, I was definitely not happy. You can talk about football philosophy, but the basic stuff has to be good. That starts with the right attitude, a fighting attitude on the pitch. I didn’t see that from minute one. You have to bring it every game.” he explained.
“It starts with yourself, act as a team, follow the rules and principles and work hard. If you do that you get confidence.
“It’s normal as a manager that you see a game, you have a plan, a way of playing and then you check how the game went, then you analyse and you see what is wrong and what is good. Obviously a lot went wrong, but you don’t have to talk about anything when the attitude is not right.
“It’s not difficult to motivate this team because my experience with them from the start of the season is they work really good on the training pitch.”
Tollgate is getting busy
An update on the protest from the Manchester Evening News’ Steven Railston:
Man Utd set to annouce Casemiro
Manchester United have confirmed that they will annouce the arrival of Casemiro from Real Madrid before kick off tonight.
His signature has taken United’s summer spend to £139.9million and they are still aiming to sign a forward before the window shuts next week.
If the club are successful they will almost certainly break the £150m barrier for permanent signings in a single transfer window something they have never done before.
Yet protests remain from supporters who are against the Glazer family’s ownership of the club. They see a lack of structure, bad decisions from the higher ups and poor performances on the pitch which expensive signings can’t fix.
What will the protests look like?
The 1958 group are mobilising today’s expected protests, meeting at a nearby pub before marching to Old Trafford with close to 10,000 people believed to be joining in near the Trinity statue in around 40 minutes time.
Liverpool can be a stepping stone says Eriksen
Christian Eriksen says that a positive result against Liverpool on Monday night could be a huge ‘stepping stone’ for Erik ten Hag and the team after their woeful start to the new season.
“If you get a result in a big game, you get the confidence to go on to the next one, and that’s definitely going to help you,” the midfielder told United Review.
“First we need to do better than we did in the last home game [against Brighton]. So we need to get the fans going. We need to start well, get going into the game and play well in general. The fans expect a good game and so do we.
“But it’s definitely a good stepping stone to win the derbies, for sure.”
How to save Manchester United: Our writers’ solutions in 100 words or less
Manchester United are in crisis. They have won only two of their past 10 Premier League games, at home to Norwich and Brentford, and have lost the past four matches scoring only once, an own goal. They haven’t won a Premier League away game since February.
Recruitment has been a disaster: the club almost exclusively sell players for less money than they bought them, their highest-paid star wants to leave, and their new manager is already struggling despite adding several hand-picked signings to the squad. Manchester United’s successful transfers over the past decade can be counted on one hand.
What’s more, Old Trafford has been left to rot, the training facilities are in need of major investment and while the Glazer family remains at the helm, money will continue to be taken out of the club to pay off ~£500m of debt and associated interest, as well as to pay the Glazers themselves in bonuses and dividends. Other than that...
So how can it be solved? How can Manchester United be restored to European football’s top table, or at least to the Premier League’s top half? Here are our sports writers’ succinct solutions:
How to save Manchester United in 100 words or less
Erik ten Hag has already seen the scale of the job at Old Trafford, here we examine potential solutions
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