Vinnie O'Connor

Yes, definitely.

Because it's Manchester United, because it's another hurdle to overcome in the race towards a 19th league title, their first 31 years of course, and because it's that opportunity to emphasise their greatest rivals in terms of success.

But this season, they are taking a step towards regaining their perch at the top of English football after Sir Alex Ferguson, of course, famously spoke about knocking them off it.

13 league titles since he obviously managed to do that.

Remember, the United were on seven league titles back in 1990 when Liverpool won their last league title.

On top of that, of course, Liverpool's recent record against United isn't great either, is it?

It was...

it wasn't either at the height of their success really back in the 80s I think between 1980 and 1988 they won just one of 17 league games between the two sides but Klopp himself has won just one league game against them out of the eight that they've been involved in and that was last season 3-1 at Anfield of course that proved to be Jose Mourinho's last in charge but that's United's only defeat in their last five league visits to Anfield having won two and drawn two so

Liverpool really want to improve on that record, but ultimately, I suppose, while I'm sure the fans will want that opportunity to revel in how far ahead of Manchester United they are at the moment.

First and foremost, this is all about ensuring Manchester City aren't given any kind of a glimmer of hope in this title race by Liverpool dropping points.

Yeah, Klopp admitted, didn't he, after the game it was hard fought in the end because he didn't close the game down

early at times, I suppose, in that second half as well.

They looked a little bit jaded.

I don't know whether the schedule had taken its toll a little bit in terms of that.

We know, of course, that Liverpool could have been two up early on Firmino missed a chance before eventually getting the goal.

I know Andy Robertson took a little bit of stick off the manager as well, two or three times, trying to carve out chances for teammates when he was well-placed to do so.

But you look at it, and it's 104 points now across the last 38 league games.

They've scored in all 21 teams.

of this season's Premier League games.

I think, yeah, they were grateful for some poor finishing from Spurs on the day.