Oli Yew

They can take confidence from that first Liverpool game.

They're the only team to take some points from Liverpool this season.

And they can also learn some lessons potentially from last week's game with Liverpool playing Tottenham.

Learning some lessons from their former boss Jose Mourinho.

Against a depleted Spurs team, Liverpool had plenty of the ball but Spurs had their chances to hit back and in the end they probably should have taken a point.

With United, Martial and Rashford up front, Rashford if fit, you'd have to say that they would probably take some of those chances.

If we go back to the template that United have, Fred and McTominay in midfield and Maguire and Lindelof at the back, they seem to be the four key components of that template and they've played in a lot of the games against the big sides in which United have done pretty well.

The main template is beating City at the Etihad in December.

You know, Jamie Carragher, after that performance, he described it as out of this world.

They played at 100 miles an hour and they'll have to do the same against this Liverpool side in the vein of form they're in, obviously.

But this time they'll have to do it without McTominay, who is likely to be replaced by Matic.

The only problem?

Inconsistency for United.

You know, as good as they were against City, they were just as bad against Arsenal on New Year's Day at the Emirates.

but they should not need any more motivation than putting one over Liverpool and having the opportunity to end this run.

The result may not change the destination of the title, but I'm sure United will be keen to try and derail them somewhat for the coming weeks.

The Arsenal game is a slight anomaly in that it was against a big side.

Normally those blips would come against a Bournemouth or a side who are struggling.

But that one did come against Arsenal.

But it wasn't an Arsenal with a new energy and a new identity under Arteta.