A big clash.
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00:00 Will, obviously last time out in the FA Cup, Liverpool failed to beat Man United at Old Trafford with a very last gasp winner for the home side.
00:10 I mean, they go there again in the Premier League. It's another huge occasion, another big rivalry.
00:15 They'll go there to look to make things right. What's the latest you can tell us ahead of this fixture and how confident will Liverpool be feeling or Man United be feeling as well?
00:25 Yeah, I think Liverpool have... You can't be looking and thinking we want revenge. I don't think Liverpool have ever gone to games thinking that, to be honest with you, because you go on to games thinking like that and it affects your decision making, etc.
00:37 I think Ian Clock looked at that game pragmatically at the end of it. I mean, when he was speaking to reporters, he just felt like he needed the break just before the international break.
00:49 He was feeling in his voice that this had just come at the end of a lengthy fixture list where Liverpool had a day for players available and they got through it somehow.
01:03 They called on academy players and others stepping up, played goals and Liverpool, they were just tired towards the end of it.
01:12 Look at the mistakes they made. Dario Nunes playing a silly pass that led to the equaliser and stoppage time.
01:19 And then Javier Elliott, a lazy sort of attempt to play the ball that Man United counter-attacked on.
01:27 It's not like Javier Elliott at all this season. It was just fatigue as you set it in. You could see that, to be honest with you.
01:34 As I say, it's unbelievable that Liverpool have managed to keep a pace in the title race.
01:42 So they'll go there thinking we need to maybe be a little bit more measured, a bit more controlled.
01:47 Obviously, it's not a cup game where the tyre is going to be one on the day, so league game is a little bit different.
01:53 But Liverpool now, the last two games, two times they've been to Man United, they've lost.
01:59 They lost, obviously, at the start of last season and they were also held to a 0-0 draw in December by Man United.
02:05 So you could say that Eric Ten Haag, alright, there was that 7-0 flasher, of course, that everyone will remember.
02:11 But Eric Ten Haag's record is actually pretty good against Liverpool and certainly Man United will be taken hard from that.
02:19 They've got Liverpool's number this season, maybe you could say.
02:24 They've held them to a draw at Anfield and they've beat them at Old Trafford, so they'll have a lot of confidence from that.
02:31 But Liverpool, hopefully the injury situation is looking a little bit better.
02:35 Chance Alexander-Arnold might be back from that game, maybe he'll come on as an impact substitute.
02:40 Curtis Jones, hopefully he'll be back then.
02:44 Darwin Nunes was one of those players who was fatigued.
02:48 It turned out he was having a little bit of a hamstring issue and he was canarty as well as he wasn't available for that game at Old Trafford.
02:56 He'd missed the past three games but he went away with France and played there.
03:00 So you'd like to think now he's hopefully healthy and won't have any more setbacks at the end of the season.
03:05 So, yeah, an interesting one when Liverpool will be going to Old Trafford.
03:09 Won't have as many supporters there this time around.
03:12 But you always fancy Liverpool in any big games, to be honest with you.
03:17 And if they are going to win the title, then they've got to be winning games like this. It's as simple as that.