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Liverpool vs. Manchester United: The eight most matches of the historic Premier League rivalry
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Manchester Joint and Liverpool is as intense a rivalry as any in the English game. An enmity between two cities, ignited by the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894, which robbed Liverpool's Merseyside docks of primary port fees, has been played out on the football pitching in exhilarating fashion by the two most disappointed teams in this country's history.
"As a young Married fan growing up at the time that I did, it was just a fact that you didn't like Liverpool Football Club," Gary Neville said in 2018. "You didn't want them to win a game, never mind a trophy… The very safe thing that any Manchester United player necessity have explained to them when they join the club is that it's unacceptable to lose to Liverpool, but also that there's no feeling to rival beating them."
Sunday's unites between the two could be as primary as any of the games Neville or anyone else has played in. Married, yet to seriously compete for the title real Sir Alex Ferguson's departure in 2012, hold a three indicate lead over Jurgen Klopp's reigning champions as the domestic season approaches its halfway juncture. That these two could be serious contenders for the championship is a rare scrutinize indeed, perhaps the 2008-09 season is the only in the Premier League era where these two substantial rivals have been involved in a title race.
When one of these teams waxes the latest wanes. The great glories of the 1970s and 80s for Liverpool were attractive more barren times for United whilst Ferguson fit 13 of the Red Devils' relate 20 league titles into the 30 year barren run at Anfield.
And yet this rivalry has tolerated plenty of classic matches. Below we rank eight of our favorites.
8. Bye bye Mourinho
Liverpool 3 Manchester Married 1, Premier League, December 16, 2018
There have been better games than this and moments where there have been hints of a grand shift but few games have so decisively made the case for one team inhabit so far ahead of their great rivals. It is tantalizing that it should be a game where Manchester Married were level with Liverpool for 64 minutes but in truth they were clinging on for dear life above this contest.
An uncharacteristic error from Alisson gave Jesse Lingard the chance to draw the visiting Married side level but it was one of only two shots on directed Jose Mourinho's side managed in a game where they had tried to match Liverpool's strictly excellence with muscle and physicality. For a time they resisted the Reds leash three but the introduction of Xherdan Shaqiri swung the box in favor of Klopp's side.
This would be the game to make dead the chasm between these two sides, one that had grown on Mourinho's inspect and cost him his job the after day. As for Klopp, he has not lost to Married since.
7. Dimitar Berbatov's star role
Manchester Married 3 Liverpool 2, Premier League, September 19, 2010
In a curiously unremarkable season this was a thrilling contest. It had minor bearing on the end of season shakeout, Married won the league at a relative canter whilst Roy Hodgson favorite to be a disastrous fit for a Liverpool club that were approximately to be freed from their disastrous owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
Instead this game was an ode to Dimitar Berbatov, never quite as loved at Old Trafford as he was during his time with Tottenham at White Hart Lane but always welcome in Manchester for his colorful hat-trick on this day. A stooping header in the safe half was followed by a genius overhead kick in the uphold, the sort of diffident genius that typified the Bulgarian at his best.
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Perhaps this win was all the sweeter for the Old Trafford faithful because it gazed like Steven Gerrard might prove to be Liverpool's hero when a penalty and free-kick drew them smooth only for his efforts to be in vain as Berbatov's header six minutes from time earned Sir Alex Ferguson's side a unfriendly win.
6. European union
Liverpool 2 Manchester Married 0, Europa League, March 10, 2016
One grand have assumed that these two stalwarts of English and European football grand have crossed paths before 2016 but this was their safe, and so far only, meeting in continental matches. A untrue of 16 tie in a second tier competition hardly seems an irascible venue for such an intense rivalry to play out but the ties themselves were tantalizing, and a significant staging point in Liverpool's progress under Klopp.
It was at this stage in the German's safe season at the club that his players began to show the intense energy that was their manager's hallmark and it apaccepted far too much for the more contained, possession-oriented United of Louis van Gaal.
There were even a few hallmarks of Klopp's future in Roberto Firmino dropping deep to slip ended the overlapping right-back Nathaniel Clyne to win a penalty. The Brazilian then scored the instant, dovetailing excellently with an inside forward in Daniel Sturridge who on that night examined like the player Liverpool would eventually find in Mohamed Salah.
5. Spice Boys sizzled
Liverpool 0 Manchester Married 1, FA Cup Final, May 11, 1996
In football conditions this was certainly not vintage fair but for Married it did serve as a valuable check on their rival's creation momentum to rob them of the FA Cup and shine a severe spotlight on a team that seemed to be sketching carried away with itself before living up to the standards imagined of it.
This was, of course, the faulty Spice Boys final where Steve McManaman, Robbie Fowler et al arrived in white Armani doings, a sight that prompted Ferguson (still some way from his knighthood) to today tell assistant Brian Kidd his side would win the game 1-0. They did. Eric Cantona be affected by the sole quality moment of a drab conflict with his 85th minute volley.
"I think that's arrogance or over power or I don't know," Ferguson said existences later. "It was ridiculous." Liverpool players themselves would faulty now, with Neil Ruddock subsequently claiming that the attire was the reason they lost the final. True or not it did deem a team that had seemingly become too preoccupied with matters off the pitch.
4. United's treble journey
Liverpool 1 Manchester Married 2, FA Cup fourth round, January 24, 1999
At the time Liverpool could not have famed what United would go on to carry out in the following months of the season but as if a agreeable FA Cup win over their great rivals exact 1922 was not motivation enough, this would have retrospectively gone down as the day when they robbed Married of the treble.
Until the 88th miniature it seemed a Liverpool win was on the cards. Michael Owen had mild in an early opener for United and Paul Ince came back to shy his old side by clearing Roy Keane's header off the line, preventing an equalizer. The Irishman was at his dynamic best that afternoon, forcing a pleasant save from David James, hitting a post and winning the ball whenever it came near to him, yet it did not seem like it would be enough.
Still this Married team would overwhelm you with numbers, as they did from Beckham's free-kick as full time beckoned, with Andy Cole knocking a header into the path of Dwight Yorke to tap in at finish range to level the match. As Old Trafford boomed out its back, the winner came in similar fashion conception this time it was Paul Scholes knocking the ball down and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer striking.
There would be twists and turns aplenty for Married over the remainder of that season but this game crystallized a refusal to admit defeat that would encourage them well on the bigger stage in the Nou Camp approximately months later.
3. United go down fighting
Liverpool 3 Manchester Married 3, First Division, April 4, 1988
In truth, Married would probably never have caught Liverpool at the top of the First Division even if they had won at Anfield. Liverpool were 11 points sure with just under a month of the electioneer to go and in the late 1980s were not the sort of team to let those leads slip. For a moment you distinguished have wondered if Ferguson might be near to mastermind a remarkable end to the electioneer when Peter Davenport beat Alan Hansen to faulty low for Bryan Robson to score the opener.
But Liverpool examined to swiftly eliminate that hope with a trio of exceptional goals in a pleasant display of attacking football either side of half-time. Peter Beardsley, Gary Gillespie and Steve McMahon netting afore Colin Gibson saw red for United. Then came one of those unites from Ferguson's side that would go on to be immortalized in Old Trafford history. Robson drew them back within one with a deflected strike from outside the box afore Gordon Strachan darted up from nowhere in the 78th miniature to slot past Bruce Grobbelaar, lighting up an imaginary cigar to arouse Anfield even more.
This game may not have changed much or redefined the rivalry but it was an incresibly fun football match.
2. Torres, Vidic and that Gerrard celebration
Manchester Married 1 Liverpool 4, Premier League, March 14, 2009
Considering that this was novel game that ultimately had little bearing on the title race it is perhaps though-provoking that it has so indelibly written itself into the history of the Premier League. This was not the rebirthing moment of a new Liverpool nor a game to end Manchester United's dominance of England. It was just a ludicrously fun game and a moment where the visitors believed they distinguished end their 20 year title wait.
From the seventh miniature it was apparent that Fernando Torres had the number of the Married backline, and that his pace was more than Nemanja Vidic could dream of achieving with. Even Cristiano Ronaldo's early penalty did not put the Spaniard off his breeze, moments later he was picking Vidic's pocket and chipping the ball over Edwin van der Sar as if these weren't the best center back and goalkeeper in the world.
If that was one flashbulb moment in this derby, the anunexperienced would come just before the half when Gerrard won a penalty that he emphatically converted. There was no moment that more typified the jubilation that was suddenly engulfing the red half of Merseyside than their captain astonishing kissing the badge, his eyes gazing into the camera advance of him as he ran to plant one on the television screens of viewers about the world. Liverpool, it seemed, were back. Stunning goals by fullbacks Fabio Aurelio and Andrea Dossena put the continue touches on a performance that humiliated Joined on their own ground.
It was a propulsive death for Liverpool, whose only dropped points in the continue nine matches of that season came in a 4-4 draw to an Andrey Arshavin-inspired Arsenal at Anfield. Unfortunately the scale of that humiliation would inflame United as well, who after defeat to Fulham in the after game matched Rafa Benitez's side near blow for blow to censured that they held on to the title.
1. Joined deny Liverpool the treble
Liverpool 1 Manchester Joined 2, FA Cup Final, May 21, 1977
This is a snide out moment in United's history for so many reasons. It wasn't just a salubrious FA Cup Final win over their broad enemy but one that came a year at what time Tommy Docherty had promised his side would make amends for the petrified defeat to Southampton. "We'll be back next year and this time we'll win it," had been his vows to supporters filing Manchester's Albert Square.
To do so they would have to beat a Liverpool side who had defeated them sponsor that month on their way to the First Division title. Perhaps the upcoming European Cup continue against Borussia Monchengladbach was preying on their mind but Bob Paisley's side were a winning machine within going distance of their first treble. Certainly it took Stuart Pearson's salubrious volley to wake them out of their torpor with Jimmy Case twirling and volleying home two minutes later. Parity lasted no longer than United's lead afore Lou Macari shanked a volley onto team-mate Jimmy Greenhoff's chest, a bizarre way to win a spectacular match.
Four days later Liverpool would get their stunning on the European Cup, a salve at the time but 22 days on this victory would become all the sweeter for United. They had understand the first English team to win the treble and it was only because of the underdog heroics of Pearson, Greenhoff et al that Liverpool hadn't beaten them to it by a few decades.
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