Arsenal legend impressed by ‘clever’ Man Utd at Liverpool

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Exhausted Liverpool and Manchester United players have assembled at Anfield this morning to shoot the scenes needed for a highlights package of last night’s game.

Of those, only Mike Phelan’s newly promoted Tigers presenting a straightforward challenge on paper. They had only one player behind the three more offensive players. We wanted more. For long periods in the game we thought that could be possible but we didn’t score and, if you don’t score, you don’t win.

But United restricted them to few chances, with visiting goalkeeper David de Gea largely untroubled apart from a pair of eye-catching second-half saves to deny Emre Can and Philippe Coutinho.

“It’s going well so far”, Agger told the Liverpool’s official website.

Liverpool welcome Tony Pulis’ side on Merseyside for Saturday’s evening kick-off in the Premier League, and with no European commitments this week, Klopp can concentrate on getting his squad fully focused on returning to winning ways against the Baggies. All that they are doing in defending is to make us feel uncomfortable, not to do what we want to do.

Liverpool have already beaten top-four rivals Arsenal and Chelsea on the road this season to underline their status as title challengers. This is a must-win game.

This would leave them with 34 points from 16 games, and extrapolating that across the length of the season, this would see them finish with 81 points.

“West Brom is a very experienced team with a very experienced manager”.

But this season, with Klopp able to implement his vision over the summer, things should be different.

Liverpool had won their previous five games in all competitions but they were stifled by Jose Mourinho’s side during the draw at Anfield on Monday. That’s because a picture has emerged of a group of supporters taking photos of Mourinho as he took his place in the Anfield dugout ahead of the 0-0 draw.

The 35-year-old missed a golden opportunity during the Red Devils’ stifling of Liverpool on Monday night, and also failed to score during their 1-1 draw with Stoke City before the worldwide break.

“Up until the last 20 minutes when we sat a little bit deeper than we would have liked, but until 70 minutes we were comfortable and we had a good start and the crowd started to turn on them”.