Last season, early doors, we lost to arse, scum & tscum all at home.
We have two of them at home in the next two weeks., and the other was postponed.
So, scum have Keane, Heinze, Neville & Brown all ruled out already.
Seeing as how we surprised Real B in midweek, with team selection, reckon we could do some of the same?
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About time we had a decent home win against scum actually, would round off a good week.
Liverpool v Man Utd
Anfield Sunday, 18 September Kick-off: 1200 BST
BBC Radio Five Live
Liverpool are expected to bring captain Steven Gerrard back after he was rested in midweek.
Fernando Morientes is still out with a hamstring injury, while Harry Kewell and Neil Mellor are out with long-term injury problems.
Manchester United will field Kieran Richardson at left-back after Gabriel Heinze was ruled out.
United are already without Roy Keane (hamstring), Gary Neville (thigh), Wes Brown (thigh).
# Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher:
"We are Liverpool, the most successful side in the country in terms of winning the league and that's always our aim.
"We are the European champions. We haven't won the league in a long time.
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"If you win the European Cup the next aim has to be winning your domestic league. That's what we'll try to do."
# Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson:
"The Manchester United-Liverpool game is such a great platform for players to perform.
"The atmosphere at Anfield is always going to be electric, just as it is at Old Trafford.
"It's the kind of atmosphere good players respond to and over the last few years we have done OK."
Liverpool (from): Reina, Josemi, Finnan, Carragher, Hyypia, Warnock, Traore, Luis Garcia, Hamann, Gerrard, Xabi Alonso, Sissoko, Sinama-Pongolle, Crouch, Cisse, Riise, Zenden, Carson.
Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Howard, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Silvestre, Richardson, Bardsley, Pique, Scholes, Fletcher, Smith, Giggs, Ronaldo, Miller, Van Nistelrooy, Rooney, Rossi.
BIG-MATCH FACTS
# LIVERPOOL face Manchester United in a battle of Premiership heavyweights at Anfield, with the European champions seeking their 50th League victory over the Red Devils. The high noon Sunday showdown brings together two of the five remaining clubs with unbeaten Premiership records going into this weekend's fixtures.
# The Merseysiders have a watertight defence in the League with clean sheets in all three games to date. However those matches against Middlesbrough (a), Sunderland (h) and Spurs (a) have produced a total of just one goal, yet the Reds boast the two highest scoring Premiership players in the country. Steven Gerrard's seven goals and Djibril Cisse's six have all come from European competitions. After six qualifiers, Rafael Benitez' side began their defence of the Champions League in earnest on Tuesday night by holding on to a creditable 1-2 win at Real Betis in their first group match.
# The Reds have lost five of their last six Premiership meetings with United, and were 'doubled' by them last season, losing 2-1 at Old Trafford - the last time Liverpool suffered a Premiership defeat on home turf. Wayne Rooney took advantage of a blunder by Liverpool keeper Jerzy Dudek to score the winner for the visitors, reduced to ten men after the dismissal of Wes Brown for a second bookable offence.
# MANCHESTER UNITED go to Anfield, on the back of Wednesday's goalless draw with Villarreal in Spain and Wayne Rooney's red card, pursuing a fifth consecutive away victory in the Premiership. Joey Barton put paid to their 100% start to the season last Saturday when Manchester City held United to a one all draw in the derby clash at Old Trafford.
# Sir Alex Ferguson's side have won three and drawn one of their opening four League matches, and Ruud van Nistelrooy has scored in all four games.
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# United are hoping to accumulate a fourth successive top flight victory at Anfield having won this fixture in each of the last three seasons; 1-2, 1-2 and 0-1.
Referee: Rob Styles (Waterlooville)
SEQUENCES-RECENT FORM
LIVERPOOL Club stats Fixtures Going into the weekend: 11th 5 points (all statistics are ahead of this weekend's round of Premiership fixtures)
# Undefeated in the Premiership so far (one win, two draws). # One of two clubs yet to concede a Premiership goal this season. The other is Chelsea. # Not conceded in 293 minutes (four hours 53 minutes) of Premiership football, since Gareth Barry's goal for Aston Villa at Villa Park on the last day of last season. # Won eight of 11 games in all competitions so far in this campaign. # Lost only one of the last 13 League and Cup contests, spanning last season. # Gone 15 top tier games since winning by more than a single goal (3-1 home to Fulham on 5 February). It is the longest such sequence currently in the Premier League.
# Not lost in eight home Premiership matches. # Won five and drawn three League games on home turf since the 0-1 defeat by Manchester United on 15 January.
MANCHESTER UNITED Club stats Fixtures Going into the weekend: 4th 10 points (all statistics are ahead of this weekend's round of Premiership fixtures)
# Victory would mean 13 points had been pocketed from the first five games - a tally United have achieved three times previously in the Premiership. # Defending an unbeaten Premiership record (three wins, one draw). # Gone 11 Premiership matches since a goalless draw. # Scored in each of the last nine League outings. # Won every match in which Wayne Rooney has scored (15 so far). # Lost only one of the last nine Premiership matches (1-3, home to Chelsea on 10 May).
KEY PLAYER NOTES-POTENTIAL MILESTONES
LIVERPOOL Squad profiles
# Steven GERRARD is two shy of totalling 50 goals for Liverpool.
MANCHESTER UNITED Squad profiles
# Ruud VAN NISTELROOY has scored in each of United's last six Premiership matches (four this season). # When next on the field from kick off, Ole Gunnar SOLSKJAER will be making his 200th start for Manchester United.
LAST SEASON'S CORRESPONDING GAME: Liverpool 0-1 Manchester United 15 January 2005 - Ref: Steve Bennett Man United scorers: Rooney 21 Sent Off: Brown (Man United) 65
HEAD TO HEAD TOTALS League: Liverpool 49 wins, Man Utd 53, Draws 42 Prem: Liverpool 7 wins, Man Utd 13, Draws 6
HEAD TO HEAD at Liverpool League: Liverpool 35 wins, Man Utd 20, Draws 17 Prem: Liverpool 4 wins, Man Utd 7, Draws 2
