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  • ‘Liverpool clash a reality check for Manchester United’

    Manchester United supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes Sunday’s Premier League match at champions Liverpool will probably be a take a look at of his workforce’s title credentials.
    Leaders United have 36 factors from 17 video games, three greater than second-placed Liverpool earlier than the blockbuster conflict at Anfield and Solskjaer backed his workforce to increase their benefit with a victory on the again of their very good type.

    Solskjaer’s facet are unbeaten in 11 league video games and have dropped solely 4 factors in that spell.
    “We know that we can beat anyone, anywhere on any given day. So to be able to go into a game like this, feeling if we play to our best that we can win, is a good feeling,” Solskjaer advised reporters on Friday.
    “It’s a test and reality check for where we are really at because Liverpool at Anfield is one of the great challenges. We have won many tight games, scored a few goals in injury time.”
    Liverpool haven’t misplaced at residence within the league since April 2017 and Solskjaer is conscious of the problem United face, having crushed the Merseyside membership solely as soon as of their final 10 conferences.

    “We have not really set the world alight too many times. To win away at Anfield you really need to be at your best level. I would rather be on top and have the points than chasing,” Solskjaer mentioned.
    “But we are the challengers, we are the hunters chasing the champions. It’s over the course of a long season and they’re the ones that everyone would like to beat.”