Liverpool thrashed Manchester United 4-0 on Tuesday in a postponed match of matchday 30 of the Premier League and takes the provisional head of the English championship while waiting for what Manchester City does on Wednesday against Brighton.
With this victory, the ‘Reds’ add 76 points, for the 74 of a City that on Wednesday will have the opportunity to recover the leadership with only six days left in the competition. Jürgen Klopp’s team, which aspires to complete an unprecedented full of titles this season (league, Champions, FA Cup and League Cup) destroyed Manchester United with goals from Colombian Luis Díaz (5), Egyptian Mohamed Salah ( 22 and 85) and the Senegalese Sadio Mané (67).
Everything went wrong for the team trained by the German Ralf Rangnick as soon as they started, when Luis Díaz opened the scoring by finishing off a pass from Salah, culminating a fatal counterattack (5). After 9 minutes, United were also left without one of their best men, Frenchman Paul Pogba, who was injured and added to the significant casualties of his compatriot Raphaël Varane, also due to physical problems, and Ronaldo.
Precisely, in minute 7, coinciding with the Portuguese star’s number, a very emotional moment was experienced, in a parenthesis of the great rivalry between the two greats of English football: the Anfield spectators rose to applaud as a gesture of support for Ronaldo, while The Kop stands sang the ‘Reds’ anthem, ‘You’ll Nerver Walk Alone’ (You’ll never walk alone). Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner, the Spanish model of Argentine origin Georgina Rodríguez, had announced on social networks the loss of their little newborn, while a little twin daughter was alive and in good health.
After this gesture, the ‘Reds’ showed no mercy to their rival and continued to put pressure until they scored the second goal: after almost two minutes all the ‘Reds’ players touched the ball, Sadio Mané took a masterful pass without looking at the inside the area and Salah beat David de Gea (22). AND
he punishment at halftime could have been greater for the ‘Red Devils’, who saw how the VAR annulled Luis Díaz’s second goal for being offside for the Colombian (35).
Barely showing anything in attack, except for a shot by Marcus Rashford saved by Alisson Becker (64), the ‘Reds’ completed the win with so many of their African stars.
salah is resurrected
Robertson took advantage of a mistake in United’s creation zone to set up a counterattack that ended with Luis Díaz’s cross that Mané finished off the net (67). And he put the finishing touch Salah, once again beating De Gea heads-up, after receiving a pass from Diogo Jota in a play originating again in the umpteenth error in the Mancunian creation zone (87).
In this way, Liverpool recovers for the decisive part of the season Salah’s goalscoring instinct, who had lowered his performance after the disappointments suffered with his team (loss of the CAN final and being left out of the World Cup). “I have scored many goals for this team and it will continue to happen, although the most important thing is that the team is winning,” Salah congratulated himself after the game.
The Egyptian striker admitted that Manchester United have become easy prey this season: “They always try to give us the ball in one-on-one situations and that makes life a lot easier for us.” And he also stressed that “in defense, we managed to keep a clean sheet here and there.”
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