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Lethal Liverpool crush Manchester United 7-0

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The Manchester side has conceded defeats by 0-7 margins on three other occasions, with all three coming away from home.

Erik Ten Hag’s high- flying Manchester United came crashing down as bitter rival Liverpool handed the Red Devils their worst defeat in close to a century at Anfield on Sunday.

United, which secured its first title in six times whe it won the League Cup, was tattered by a Liverpool side, which has had a middling season so far.

Mohamed Salah, Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo set up the net doubly each for the Reds, while Roberto Firmino scored the seventh after coming on from the bench.

The 7- 0 scoreline, with six pretensions coming in the alternate half, also equalled United’s heaviest defeat and is its biggest loss in the Premier League period.

The Manchester side has conceded defeats by 0- 7 perimeters on three other occasions, with all three coming down from home.

Manchester United’s biggest home defeat periphery is six, which has happed thrice.

Manchester United began this season with a shocking 0- 4 master to recently promoted Brentford.

United’s struggle of last season was marked by a 0- 5 thrashing at the hands of Liverpool at Old Trafford, with Salah scoring a chapeau- trick.

In 2020, the Red Devils were handed a 1- 6 caching by Tottenham Hotspur, which was managed by former United master Jose Mourinho.

The shift in power balance in Manchester, from United to City, was marked by the latter’s 6- 1 palm over the former in 2011. The huge loss would return to hang also director Alex Ferguson, as his platoon would ultimately lose the title to City on thing difference.

Liverpool brought Manchester United’s crusade to a jouncing halt as Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah all scored doubly in a record 7- 0 forging of their arch-rival to boost their Premier League top- four expedients at Anfield on Sunday.

A week after a resurgent United claimed its first jewel since 2017 by winning the League Cup, and amid talk of a title drive, it was blown down either side of halftime as Liverpool recorded its biggest ever periphery of palm in the institution.

United had looked hardly the better side for 43 twinkles before Gakpo’s superb finish from Liverpool’s first attempt on target gave the host the halftime lead.

Within five twinkles of the renew, it was each over as a contest when Nunez made it 2- 0 with a title after some comical United defending. Three twinkles latterly, a lightning Liver pool counter-attack led by Salah ended with Gakpo finishing in style for 3- 0.

With United in disarray, Salah got in on the act with a clinical finish in the 66th nanosecond. Nunez also transferred a title past a helpless David De Gea in the 75th.

Salah also rubbed swab into United injuries with a close- range trouble to score a record 129th Premier League thing for the club before Roberto Firmino came off the bench to make it seven.

Liverpool had thrashed United 4- 0 at Anfield last April, but considering the reversal of fortunes for the two clubs since also, this result was a major surprise.

United’s sobering defeat, described by Sky Sports pundit and its former protector Gary Neville as a ‘ disgrace ’, left it in third place on 49 points and surely out of the title race as it’s 14 points behind leader Arsenal.

Liverpool’s fourth palm in five league matches lifted it above Newcastle United into fifth on 42 points, three points behind fourth- placed Tottenham Hotspur with a game in hand. Know More Football News…

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