📏 Form Guide
Liverpool WWWLLL 📉
Liverpool will be wanting a better result here after the 2-1 Premier League loss in their previous game against Chelsea.
In that game, Liverpool managed 47% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Liverpool was Cody Gakpo (63'). Chelsea got 12 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Moisés Caicedo (14') and Estêvão (95') scored for Chelsea.
Three or more goals per game have been seen in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Liverpool have played. Their opponents scored 9 of them in these games whereas Liverpool managed to get a total of 9.
A look at their previous results shows us that Liverpool:
- haven't been beaten in the league by Manchester United in their last 5 games.
- are undefeated in their last 20 league matches at home. What a fortress.
Manchester United DWLWLW
Manchester United head into the encounter following a 2-0 Premier League win with the defeat of Sunderland in their last outing.
In that game, Manchester United managed 51% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Manchester United, goals were scored by Mason Mount (8') and Benjamin Šeško (31'). For their opponents, Sunderland got 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.
Showing their fondness for fruitful encounters, goals have been scored 21 times in the previous 6 matches in which Manchester United have sent out their troops, making it a mean average of 3.5 goals per fixture. Opposition teams have got 11 from this total. That sort of trend won’t necessarily be sustained into this match, of course.
Their previous form shows that Manchester United:
- are winless against Liverpool when they have played them away from home in the previous 9 matches in the league. A really bad run.
- haven't been beaten by Liverpool when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
- haven’t won away from home in the past 8 matches in the league. What a terrible run of away results.
🤜🤛 Head to head
Inspecting their past head to head clashes going back to 05/03/2023 tells us that Liverpool have won 2 of these and Manchester United 1, with the tally of drawn games being 3.
Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 25 in all which averages out at 4.17 goals per meeting.
The previous league meeting between these sides was Premier League match day 20 on 05/01/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Liverpool 2-2 Manchester United.
On that day, Liverpool managed 52% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Goals were scored by Cody Gakpo (59') and Mohamed Salah (70').
Manchester United got 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Lisandro Martínez (52') and Amad Diallo (80') scored.
The match was refereed by Michael Oliver.
📰 Team News: Liverpool
The Liverpool manager Arne Slot will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns at all coming into this game with a fully healthy group to pick from.
In our view, The Reds could line up in a 4-2-3-1 system in the match, beginning the first half with Giorgi Mamardashvili, Conor Bradley, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk, Milos Kerkez, Ryan Gravenberch, Dominik Szoboszlai, Mohamed Salah, Florian Wirtz, Cody Gakpo and Alexander Isak.
📋 Team News: Manchester United
With a completely injury-free group ready to go, the Manchester United boss Rúben Amorim doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this clash.
We are inclined to think that The Red Devils could decide to utilise a 3-4-2-1 system, starting the game with Senne Lammens, Leny Yoro, Matthijs de Ligt, Luke Shaw, Diogo Dalot, Manuel Ugarte, Bruno Fernandes, Patrick Dorgu, Bryan Mbeumo, Mason Mount and Benjamin Sesko.
💭 Prediction
It seems to us that Manchester United will have a tough assignment to be scoring even one goal against a Liverpool lineup who have all the attributes to really boss this match.
We’re tipping a very comfortable 3-0 victory for Liverpool at the end of the 90 minutes.
Peter Guest, 10:19 19/10/2025