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Liverpool’s failure to score for the first time since April has given them the most sensible spot in the Premier League, while Manchester United managed a goalless draw to deny their main rivals a club record.
Erik ten Hag’s side triumphed when 34 teams faced each other in the past failed to keep out a team that finished the game with five offensive players on the field and Trent Alexander-Arnold playing the role of central fulcrum.
The visitors offered little in the way of threat themselves as their goal drought on enemy territory extended to 507 minutes, stretching back five years, but they at least stemmed the bleeding which had seen them concede 21 times in the last five meetings home and away.
In that sense, United’s vigilant manager may be in for a crumb of consolation and his supporters would have been equally very happy to deny Liverpool the chance to regain top spot after Arsenal took the lead the day before and ended their 100 per cent. House Search.
Less impressive was the questionable double yellow card of Diogo Dalot, sent off in stoppage time.
Now it’s just a win out of six for the visitors and defensive performances like this probably wouldn’t get them any closer to the sensible four.
Ten Hag is also yet to find a way to unlock potential £72m summer signing Rasmus Hojland, who scored United’s shot on goal in the 67th minute.
His Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp, however, will be even more disappointed that his team turned their dominance (they took 34 shots in the match) into anything more than a point.
After the recent beaten breaks against Fulham and Crystal Palace, there hasn’t been any tail issues here; in fact, there has been very little, as Darwin Nunez never seemed to be ending a goalless streak that now stretches to seven games.
While Mohamed Salah turned and toiled, even his mercurial skills could not unlock a committed United defence which saw goalkeeper Andre Onana have one of his better days.
With their highest attendance in a hundred years (57,000 after the opening of the main stand at Anfield Road), Liverpool established their dominance in the first five minutes, winning a corner after 15 seconds to score 89 with a penny owned and two shots. .
However, they failed to turn that into something really extensive after Sofyan Amrabat cleared a Kostas Tsimikas free-kick a few yards from his own goal line and a stretching Nunez failed to get Salah’s lofted pass through.
The tension over United was exemplified when Antony passed the ball offside when the intended target, Dalot, beat him.
United’s narrow back four gave their hosts plenty of space out wide but although Alexander-Arnold and Salah regularly found themselves in those areas they were not effective enough.
Onana was unable to prevent a Luke Shaw half-clearance and Salah’s shot deflected wide, but he did much more by knocking down Virgil van Dijk’s header.
Salah opted to shoot weakly instead of passing to the overlapping Tsimikas in a rare error of judgement which was reflective of a half which had plenty of shots, the most against United in the first half in five years, but little genuine threat.
In that regard, United’s plan worked, and after Alexander-Arnold, who challenged Alejandro Garnacho at the right time when he was right, burst into the net, Klopp switched to a 4-4-2 with his hybrid right-back. moving full-time to central midfield and Salah deployed at the top.
That made for a quick replacement with a low shot from Alexander-Arnold and Onana repelling an effort from Salah and charging in a shot from Luis Díaz.
In between the isolated Hjoland found the chest of Alisson Becker with just the keeper to beat.
United replaced Garnacho with Marcus Rashford while Klopp switched again, this time to a 4-2-3-1 with the attacking talents of Curtis Jones and Harvey Elliott deployed.
However, the closest to breaking the impasse was Joe Gomez, who discovered the back net.
Things ended with an angry note from Dalot for making an unfavorable decision, which led to two cautions in the space of a few seconds.