For once, I think one of these brief(ish) reviews will actually be pretty brief because there really isn't much to say about this match. Despite the score line only reading 2-0 to Liverpool, it really could have been a lot worse had it not been for a brilliant performance from Dean Henderson and good shifts from Basham, Egan and O'Connell. It didn't really help that whatever game plan United might have had was blown up after 3 minutes thanks to a Baldock slip which allowed Robertson to put a ball on a platter for an onrushing Salah to slip past Henderson. Not much happened from an offensive perspective for United all night but defensively we were pretty solid. It was just wave upon wave of Liverpool attacks that were repelled and then repelled again. United got into the half one down but it didn't get much better in the second half.
The ball somehow stayed out after a Liverpool set piece early doors in the first half, the ball bounced off of the post and looked to be going in had it not been from a timely intervention from Henderson. Liverpool got a second shortly after with a lightning fast counter attack that saw Mane finish at the second time of asking after another good save from Henderson. As time wound down United actually had their best spell of the match and almost scored. Oli McBurnie got on the end of an O'Connell cross with the chance looking harder to miss than score. McBurnie missed. To be honest, I'm not too worried about us losing two on the trot, we've been to the home grounds of two of the best teams in Europe and haven't done half as badly as some teams have done in those grounds. We're still 8th and we're still a fair way off the relegation places. Special mention to Liverpool, they were simply outstanding and, unless there's a major slip up, should be winning that league title in May. Anyway, it's FA Cup action this weekend, it's only non league opposition, what could possibly go wrong there? Until next time, UTB.
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