Man Utd vs Liverpool: Premier League – preview, team news, start, lineups

Who: Manchester United vs Liverpool
What: Premier League
Where: Old Trafford, Manchester
When: Sunday, May 3 astatine 3:30pm (14:30 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 11:30 GMT successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.

Manchester United big aged rivals Liverpool for a crippled that could beryllium important successful the conflict for Champions League qualification.

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United person improved considerably ⁠under caretaker brag Michael Carrick, who took complaint pursuing Ruben Amorim’s dismissal.

They beryllium 3rd successful the table, 3 points up of Liverpool, and request 2 much points to secure a top-five finish and a spot among Europe’s elite adjacent season.

Liverpool travel into the lucifer connected the backmost of 3 successive Premier League wins.

United brag Carrick relishes ‘special’ Liverpool rivalry

Carrick believes Manchester United against Liverpool is ever a “standout” fixture adjacent though neither of the clubs are challenging for the Premier League rubric this season.

“Certainly 1 of my favourite games, without uncertainty it’s a standout game,” the United brag said. “There’s large games and large rivalries that we person with different teams, but surely this 1 is close up there.

“The history, the ups and downs the past has produced successful these types of games and the excitement and entertainment, and the emotion, which is simply a immense portion of it. It makes it a truly peculiar game.”

The erstwhile United midfielder said the nine had made large strides since past season, erstwhile they finished a miserable 15th successful the table, 42 points down champions Liverpool.

“I conscionable deliberation this astir apt shows the improvements of the group, really, and getting stronger,” helium said.

“And to beryllium coming into this crippled successful specified a bully position, connected the backmost of bully results, and trying to execute and moving forward.

“So, afloat alert of the concern successful the league and however adjacent it is betwixt us. But that’s not something, really, we’ve focused connected going into this game. I deliberation it’s a one-off game.”

Fernandes and the creation of the assistance arsenic grounds beckons

Manchester United skipper Bruno ⁠Fernandes is 1 assistance distant from the single-season grounds of 20 shared by Thierry ⁠Henry and Kevin De Bruyne.

Carrick believes Fernandes should beryllium rewarded with the league’s Player of the Year grant for his performances this season.

“Hopefully helium does [win it],” Carrick said aft Monday’s 2-1 triumph implicit Brentford.

“He deserves it for the interaction helium has had and the moments he’s created, whether it’s creating oregon scoring oregon having different power wrong the group. He’s had a large season.”

Fernandes successful enactment with Brentford’s Sepp van den Berg [Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters]

Salah ruled retired of United crippled but volition instrumentality earlier extremity of season

Liverpool guardant ⁠Mohamed Salah volition miss ⁠Sunday’s crippled owed to a musculus injury, but manager Arne Slot confirmed connected Friday that helium was expected to instrumentality earlier the extremity ⁠of the season.

Salah was forced disconnected during Liverpool’s 3-1 triumph implicit Crystal Palace past week with a hamstring concern, prompting fears it could extremity his run and perchance his Anfield career, with the Egyptian ⁠set to permission astatine the extremity of the campaign.

Liverpool said connected Wednesday the wounded was not arsenic superior arsenic initially feared and that Salah should diagnostic again earlier the run concludes.

“As we cognize from Mo [Salah], helium is ever moving incredibly hard erstwhile helium is acceptable but besides erstwhile helium is injured to beryllium backmost ‌as soon arsenic possible,” Slot told reporters.

“We expect him to beryllium backmost for the last portion of the play but not for Sunday [against Man Utd].

“In each ways, it is simply a large alleviation that his wounded is minor, truthful helium is capable to play for america and astatine the World Cup. If ever determination was a subordinate that deserves a large send-off, it is decidedly Mo.”

Salah celebrates scoring against Everton connected April 19 [Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters]

‘I person seen ‌how bully they are’

Slot praised Carrick for improving United and stressed the value of the game.

“We ⁠are alert of the information that it is simply a precise large game, not lone due to the fact that we play United but besides to suffice for Champions League and ⁠to get the highest imaginable presumption successful the league table,” ⁠Slot said.

“We ever cognize that they are truly bully but present they are showing it successful the league table. It mightiness beryllium a spot of an vantage that they lone play erstwhile a week.

“When we person played them each time, I person seen ‌how bully they are and present they have, particularly nether Michael Carrick, go much accordant successful their results.”

Head-to-head

The 2 clubs person met connected 243 occasions, with Manchester United winning 92 games to Liverpool’s 82, portion 71 of the matches ended arsenic draws.

Last 5 encounters:

• October 19, 2025: Liverpool 1-2 Man Utd (Premier League)
• January 05, 2025: Liverpool 2-2 Man Utd (Premier League)
• September 01, 2024: Man Utd 0-3 Liverpool (Premier League)
• April 07, 2024: Man Utd 2-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
• March 17, 2024: Man Utd 4-3 Liverpool (FA Cup quarterfinal)

What happened successful the past crippled betwixt the 2 sides?

Harry Maguire scored a precocious victor arsenic United bushed Liverpool 2-1 astatine Anfield successful October to inflict a past 4th consecutive decision connected the champions.

Bryan Mbeumo enactment United successful beforehand aft 2 minutes and though Cody Gakpo equalised successful the 78th minute, Maguire grabbed his club’s archetypal triumph astatine Anfield since 2016 with an 84th-minute header.

Maguire scores the victor astatine Anfield connected October 19, 2025 [Carl Recine/Getty Images]

United’s squad news

Carrick said guardant Matheus Cunha had returned to grooming aft a caller wounded setback and should diagnostic and helium besides said helium was hopeful that Luke Shaw would beryllium acceptable capable to play.

Matthijs de Ligt is inactive moving his mode backmost to afloat fittingness and volition not beryllium progressive against Liverpool.

Predicted starting XI:

Lammens (goalkeeper); Dalot, Maguire, Heaven, Shaw; Casemiro, Mainoo; Mbeumo, Fernandes, Cunha; Sesko

Liverpool’s squad news

Goalkeeper Alisson Becker is inactive retired with an injury, but Slot said helium is “very close” to being capable to bid with the squad again.

Deputy keeper Giorgi Mamardashvili is besides sidelined for respective weeks aft sustaining a genu coiled successful the Merseyside derby triumph implicit Everton successful April, truthful third-choice stopper Freddie Woodman is acceptable to proceed successful extremity aft impressing successful the 3-1 triumph implicit Crystal Palace past weekend.

Along with Salah, Conor Bradley, Giovanni Leoni and Hugo Ekitike are besides unavailable owed to wounded – with the second acceptable to miss the World Cup with a ruptured Achilles tendon.

Left-back Milos Kerkez is simply a uncertainty arsenic helium has been nursing a knock.

Predicted starting XI:

Woodman (goalkeeper); Jones, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Gakpo; Isak