If Erik TEN HAG stops Liverpool from winning at home for the first time this season, he will feel like a hero.
Fans of Manchester United also praised their team for drawing 0-0 with the team that was currently leading the league going into this weekend.
This was kind of a win, which says a lot about where United are right now.
But good job to Manchester United for getting a point when Liverpool had won all 11 games this season across all divisions and scored 35 goals.
It’s not often that a Manchester United team has been so afraid of getting beat up on the way to Merseyside.
When they played that game last season and lost 7–0, they had just won the Carabao Cup and hadn’t lost in 11 games.
It had been a very different buildup. The Red Devils were in eighth place going into this game against the league winners.
Plus, their leader Bruno Fernandes was suspended and they had more injuries, so the back four had to be changed again when Jonny Evans came back.
But they were determined from the start to fight and hold on.
Right from the start, Luke Shaw stopped Mohammed Salah’s shot and Andre Onana saved Virgil van Dijk’s goal, but the first half was otherwise bad.
From the break on, Liverpool was in the lead thanks to a goal from Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Then, in the 52nd minute, Diogo Dalot cut in from the side and sent in a low cross that Rasmus Hojlund just missed.
It wasn’t a big deal for Liverpool, but it showed that their opponents weren’t giving up.
After that, Kobbie Mainoo sent a pass to Scott McTominay, who scored United’s first goal, but he couldn’t get his shot off.
There was some noise at Anfield, which had been quiet because they were ready to humiliate the guests when United looked like they might steal something.
The 57,000 people who came to this famous stadium were the most people it had seen in fifty years, but Ten Hag’s men were able to keep the noise level down.
It was true that neither side was very good.
Then came the chance. Salah set up Alexander-Arnold, but Onana moved the other way for some reason, and the Liverpool star’s shot went just wide of the left post.
Rasmus Hojlund then had a chance to score his first goal in the Premier League, which is the biggest game in his home country.
Antony found the day’s captain, Scott McTominay, who passed the ball to the £72 million player in a neat way, but the player fired straight at Allison, who was coming up behind him.
There was sudden hope in the United team, and as they pushed for an impossible win, gaps would appear at the other end.
Onana made a save for Salah, and then Anotny set up McTominay on the edge of the box, but McTominay missed the target.
Marcus Rashford came on to try to turn around a poor season after scoring 30 goals last year, which was the best haul of goals in his career.
We were playing a game at the time, and when Darwin Nunez broke into the box, he and Luis Diaz seemed to leave the ball for each other as it came up.
Ten Hag was chewing, looking, pointing, and clapping while Jurgen Klopp paced around.
Before the game, both teams knew this was very close. They thought Liverpool would tear United apart.
People yelled “handball” when the ball hit Shaw on the arm, but the judge and VAR said there was no foul.
Liverpool was getting desperate, and they were making bad decisions by taking shots when they should have passed the ball to teammates who were in better situations.
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Klopp’s team played badly that day, while United fought hard.
Late in the game, Diogo Dalot got a double yellow for too much protest, even though the game never needed a red card.