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da betway： It was all going so well for Manchester United on Sunday afternoon. The naysayers had been having a gem of a time since the club’s dismal loss to Newcastle a couple of weeks prior, and already the eulogies were being drawn up for another Red Devils humiliation – this time at the hands of arch-rivals Liverpool.
But often with these games, form goes out the window, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side remarkably led the reigning Champions League holders, and a team that had enjoyed a flawless start to the Premier League campaign, by a goal. However, as the pressure built up, United’s otherwise impressive defence creaked, and allowed Adam Lallana to snatch a demoralising equaliser with just minutes left to play.
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Before the match, United may well have taken a draw. But having led for so long, not to come away with all three points would have been doubly frustrating. And whilst Solskjaer can take a lot of the credit for the way they stifled the visitors and hit them on the break in the first-half, his poor judgement call in the second period cost his team dearly.
The Red Devils had completely rattled Jurgen Klopp’s side with the decision to go to a 5-3-2 formation, with Marcus Rashford and Daniel James causing all sorts of problems, and the opening goal came as a result of that. But instead of committing to what had worked so well for him in the first-half, Solskjaer appeared to fold just when the pressure began to crank up a notch.
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Make no mistake, Liverpool appeared to be edging back into the contest, but that should have been no surprise, considering how woeful they were in the opening period – as per Sofascore, they lost possession 68 times and completed none of their attempted crosses. At the first sign of Klopp’s men raising the temperature, the United boss called his players to retreat onto their own penalty-box, and moved to a 5-4-1 formation.
It was a switch designed to help soak up the pressure better, but in truth, it only invited more of it. Rashford, and then Martial, became isolated and couldn’t hold the ball up – the latter had just three touches of the ball in the 13 minutes he was on the pitch. The decision created more problems than it solved, and after looking so comfortable defensively from crosses out wide, United conceded their equaliser from an Andy Robertson delivery.
Having got things perfectly spot-on before the game, Solskjaer undid a lot of his hard work by making a disastrous tactical call during the game.