The biggest
fixture in English football is here. Ole Gunnar Solksjaer’s Manchester United
take on Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool at Old Trafford on Sunday and the under-pressure United manager cannot afford to lose to their biggest rivals at home.

It was
Liverpool who had defeated United before their one-and-a-half-year-long
unbeaten Premier League away streak began in January 2020 and now will play
them again first after it ended with a 4-2 defeat at Leicester last week.

Liverpool
are coming off the back of a 5-0 win over Watford in the league before they
scraped past a 10-men Atletico Madrid in the Champions League in the midweek. United
too scraped past Atalanta in their CL encounter like Liverpool with an
identical 3-2 scoreline.

United are placed
on the Premier League table and have not been in the best of form, as the side
is winless in its last three EPL games. Pressure is mounting on Solskjaer, whose
tactics have been called into question by a section of fans. The addition of the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Jadon Sancho, and Rafael Varane has not had the desired effect on the way the team plays. A loss to
Liverpool would alienate the fans further and pressure on Solksjaer would be 10
times more. The Reds are the firm favourites going into the game if we take
their recent form into account but The Red Devils could use this as a platform
to turn its fortunes around. A win for United could take it to fourth on the
table, while a loss could drop them down to as low as 10th. For Liverpool, it
eyes the top spot with a win, while a loss could push it down to third.