Peter Smith
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Still the only time that a team has stopped Liverpool winning in the Premier League this season.
So what are your memories of that game and how Ole Gunnar Solskjaer managed to take a point off this Liverpool side?
Yeah, there's been some response, isn't it?
You know, winning.
Just winning, winning, winning, winning and winning week after week after that game to take this huge commanding lead they've got at the top of the Premier League table.
14 points with a game in hand over Man City and really looking nailed on for the title.
Of course we should say after that first game JΓΌrgen Klopp pointed out that there were a couple of VAR calls that went against Liverpool.
There was that challenge from Lindelof on Origi in the build up to Rashford's goal which perhaps on another day could have been given as a foul and shortly after that opener Mane had a goal ruled out by VAR for handball so perhaps that game could have swung slightly differently had VAR seen things differently but
But that's the way it went.
And Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, he's got a bit of a track record against these big teams since he's taken charge at Man United.
They've won six and drawn four of the 14 games they've had against big six sides.
So it's almost like these big matches suit this Manchester United team in the way that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's got them playing.
Yeah, absolutely.
You mentioned the inconsistency there.
I remember that Man City win came after they'd beaten Tottenham in midweek and it really felt like,
hey this is it, this is all starting to click together for Solskjaer, it's starting to come together and as you say that inconsistency reared its head again and over that sort of festive period they've been so up and down, yeah I was there at the Emirates for that New Year's Day game and I just
They were just well beaten by Mikel Arteta's new look Arsenal side.
Gerrard, is that what we can expect from United on Sunday?
A team who go and are very conservative when they don't have the ball but then try and hit Liverpool on the break at any opportunity they have?
Well, we're on the topic of Manchester United.