REVEALED: The last time Manchester United scored at ANFIELD was five years ago as Liverpool promised to humiliate Eric Ten Hag’s men tomorrow

 

REVEALED: The last time Manchester United scored at ANFIELD was five years ago as Liverpool promised to humiliate Eric Ten Hag’s men tomorrow

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Anfield has become Manchester United’s graveyard – and it may be about to get worse

Anfield has become Manchester United’s graveyard – and it may be about to get worse

By James Pearce and Andy Mitten

Dec 15, 2023

Ahead of his first experience of the Liverpool-Manchester United rivalry in January 2016, Jurgen Klopp described the game as “the salt in the soup”.

 

The German didn’t enjoy the taste that followed, Wayne Rooney’s 78th-minute goal at Anfield consigning Klopp’s side to a demoralising 1-0 defeat that also sealed United’s Premier League double over their arch-rivals for a second successive season.

 

“We lost a game we should not have lost,” bemoaned Klopp, whose desperation was underlined by the sight of on-loan centre-back Steven Caulker, signed on loan from Queens Park Rangers of the Championship five days earlier among a spate of defensive injuries, coming off the bench to play as a makeshift striker late on.

 

At least he was in good company. No Liverpool manager has won his first meeting with United since Bob Paisley in 1975.

 

But just shy of eight years on, the dynamic between the two historic heavyweights of English football has shifted emphatically – particularly when they face one another at Anfield.

 

Over the course of Klopp’s reign, the visit of United has gone from a fixture to dread on Merseyside to one that is relished. United haven’t won there in eight attempts in all competitions since that day in January 2016.

 

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