Manchester United will be hosting Liverpool tonight in their highly anticipated derby. The home team have had a miserable start to the season – first losing 2-1 to Brighton and then being hammered 4-0 by Brentford.
Liverpool themselves have not had the best start – drawing with Fulham and Crystal Palace in their first two games. As a result, they will be hoping to pick up their first win of the campaign against their bitter rivals when they go to Old Trafford.
Manchester United vs Liverpool preview
Liverpool will be without their new signing Darwin Nunez for the game, after the Uruguayan was sent off in their previous game. Manchester United, on the other hand, won’t be able to feature Casemiro since he has not been registered yet.
Club legend Wayne Rooney has called for his former teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo to be dropped from the line-up against Liverpool.
“I wouldn’t play Cristiano Ronaldo, and I wouldn’t play Marcus Rashford. If I was in Ten Hag’s position my main concern would be getting energy on the pitch, and United’s failure to recruit a No 9 means they relied on Ronaldo against Brentford, even though he hadn’t trained a lot with the team. He looked like he needs time to get match fit,” he wrote on his column in the Times.
“He has also let it be known that he wants to leave the club. I don’t know his reasons but, as I wrote in my last column, I’d let him – he’s a great player and will always score goals but the task for Ten Hag is to produce a team that can compete for the title in three or four years’ time. That means rebuilding with younger players.”
Liverpool seem favourites to win at Old Trafford once again, but it remains to be seen whether Erik Ten Hag can get his side to respond to their previous defeats in the big game.
