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06-03-2011 14:30 Liverpool - Manchester United

DID YOU KNOW?
Manchester United have not won at Anfield in the Premier League since December 2007 when Carlos Tevez scored the winner.
If Ryan Giggs features for United on Sunday he will be making a club record 607th league appearance for the Red Devils.
Wayne Rooney has scored five goals in his last five Premier League games and is just two goals short of a century of league goals for Manchester United.
Nemanja Vidic will miss the game through suspension but the Serbian has scored as many league goals as Steven Gerrard this season (four).
The Red Devils have won just four of their 14 Premier League away games this season and have lost two of their last three on their travels (at Chelsea and Wolves).
A win for Liverpool will make it three in a row at Anfield against United, having beaten their bitter rivals 2-0 last season and 2-1 in 2008.
Following the departure of Fernando Torres, Raul Meireles is now Liverpool’s top scorer in the Premier League with five goals, all coming since the departure of Roy Hodgson, the man who brought him to the club from Porto.
Kenny Dalglish will be taking on Sir Alex Ferguson for the 21st time as manager. The Liverpool boss has managed just four wins against his countryman so far.
Only Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal have won more games at home in the league this season than Liverpool.
Both Pepe Reina and Martin Skrtel have played in every single Premier League game for the Reds this season, the only two ever-presents for the Reds.

LAST MEETING
January 9, 2011: Manchester United 1-0 Liverpool

The two clubs met in the third of the FA Cup at Old Trafford with United emerging victorious courtesy of a second minute Ryan Giggs penalty after Dimitar Berbatov had been fouled.

Any hopes of a Liverpool fightback were effectively extinguished on the half hour mark as captain Steven Gerrard was sent off for a foul on Michael Carrick as the Red Devils ruined Kenny Dalglish's return as Reds boss.

PROBABLE LINE-UPS
Liverpool (3-4-2-1): Reina; Carragher, Skrtel, Agger; Cole, Lucas, Meireles, Johnson; Kuyt, Gerrard; Suarez.

Manchester United (4-4-2): Van der Sar; O’Shea, Brown, Smalling, Evra; Nani, Fletcher, Scholes, Giggs; Berbatov, Rooney.

José Reina Paez25
Daniel Agger5
Jamie Carragher23
Martin Skrtel37
Fabio Aurelio6
Lucas21
Raúl Meireles4
Steven Gerrard8
Glen Johnson2
Luis Suárez7
Dirk Kuyt18
Edwin van der Sar 1
Patrice Evra3
Chris Smalling26
Wesley Brown6
John O'Shea22
Ryan Giggs11
Michael Carrick16
Darren Fletcher24
Nani17
Wayne Rooney10
Dimitar Berbatov9
Prediction
After defeat at Stamford Bridge, Manchester United will feel this is a must-win game as the title race hots up. Yet Liverpool would love nothing better than to interrupt their quest for a 19th title, that would see them overtake the Reds’ record.

To do so they will need to do better than against West Ham United last weekend, but against a United side depleted at the back and vulnerable away from home, will expect at least a point.
Editor's Prediction
 Liverpool2
Man Utd. 2