On Jan 17th, Manchester United and Liverpool will play a match in Liverpool in a Premier League match. 2nd placed Liverpool is fresh off their 4-1 win against Aston Villa. Sadio Mané scored the first goal for Liverpool in the 4th minute, but Louie Barry got the equalizer for Aston Villa in the 41st minute. Liverpool should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 19 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 1st placed Manchester United, recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Burnley. Paul Pogba struck first for Manchester United in the 71st minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Burnley couldn’t manage to score, and Manchester United took the shutout win. Manchester United is on a hot streak lately, having won 8 of their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Liverpool won the head to head battle with 1 win and 1 draw.
For Manchester United, their top scorers are Marcus Rashford and Bruno Fernandes, each having 2 goals in their last five matches. Liverpool is fortunate enough to have Sadio Mané in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored 4 goals
Virgil van Dijk, Naby Keïta, Joël Matip, Joe Gomez, Konstantinos Tsimikas and Diogo Jota are unavailable to play for Liverpool, while Manchester United will be without Edinson Cavani, Marcos Rojo and Phil Jones.