Craig Burley

I don't think there's an easy fixture in the Premier League at the moment for this Liverpool side.

And I think the first 45 minutes at the city ground against Nottingham Forest encapsulated that.

And who's to say that's just not going to recur again and again and again for Liverpool?

At the moment, I would be really fearing of this Liverpool side's ability to get in the top four.

And Andy Slott was asked about it a couple of weeks ago.

He says, would it be, what was the word that they used?

Would it be acceptable?

And he said no.

He said, no, it would not be acceptable.

And so if it's not acceptable to him, it might not be acceptable to the Liverpool bold.

So it's going to be a big end to the season for Liverpool.

Trust me.

The problem is for him, if you come off the bench, Mario, like he did against West Ham and scored the great goal, a wonder goal, really, which was...

which really didn't match up with the rest of his performance when he came off the bench because his control, Cesco, at West Ham when he came on was atrocious.

And then he scores this great goal, and it was a great goal.

Comes on tonight again, scores another very good goal.

It was a pretty simple finish, but he had to keep his head down and finish it.

So if I'm Michael Carrick, I'm saying, look, you're 22, I know you want to play, but you're making a big difference coming off the bench.

And also, as Mario mentioned, United like Mbembo's pace to run in behind.

They like the fact that he will stretch teams when, all right, couldn't really do it tonight because there wasn't a lot of space.