Manchester United stun Liverpool 2-1 as Maguire scores late winner

Manchester United condemned Liverpool to a 4th successive decision arsenic Harry Maguire’s precocious extremity sealed a 2-1 win implicit the spluttering Premier League champions.

After losses against Crystal Palace, Galatasaray and Chelsea, Arne Slot’s broadside endured their astir achy setback of the play astatine the hands of their bitter rivals connected Sunday.

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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 infinitesimal header.

Maguire’s extremity besides secured back-to-back Premier League wins for the archetypal clip successful Ruben Amorim’s tenure arsenic United boss.

The decision leaves Liverpool 4 points adrift of Arsenal astatine the apical of the array and Arne Slot inactive searching for answers successful however to get the close equilibrium aft splashing retired astir £450 cardinal ($604m) connected caller players successful the transportation market.

United adjacent to wrong 2 points of their historical rivals and up to ninth successful the array to easiness the unit connected Amorim aft his biggest triumph successful astir a twelvemonth successful charge.

After 3 consecutive defeats for the archetypal clip successful Slot’s reign, Liverpool could hardly person imagined a worse commencement connected Sunday.

Mbeumo sped past Virgil van Dijk with easiness earlier firing past Giorgi Mamardashvili from Amad Diallo’s walk aft hardly a minute.

The location broadside and enactment were furious that play was not stopped successful the build-up aft Alexis MacAllister went down with a caput injury, inflicted by his ain skipper Van Dijk.

Slot near large wealth signing Florian Wirtz connected the seat for the 2nd consecutive crippled arsenic helium looked successful vain to find the close equilibrium betwixt defence and attack.

Gakpo should person levelled for the defending champions erstwhile helium deed the station from Mohamed Salah’s done shot successful Liverpool’s 1 flowing determination of the archetypal half.

Bruno Fernandes past spurned a glorious accidental to treble the Red Devils’ pb erstwhile helium deed the extracurricular of the station erstwhile unmarked from the borderline of the area.

At the different end, Senne Lammens was seldom troubled successful the archetypal 45 minutes, but produced a large prevention erstwhile called upon to contradict Alexander Isak his archetypal Premier League extremity since joining Liverpool for a British transportation grounds 125 cardinal pounds ($93m).

A Gakpo deflected transverse past came backmost disconnected the station and the Dutchman rattled the woodwork for a 3rd clip aboriginal successful the 2nd half.

Slot turned to his adjacent 200 cardinal pounds ($149m) successful guardant options disconnected the seat arsenic Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike were introduced connected the hr people to articulation Salah, Gakpo and Isak successful a five-man attack.

Salah has scored much goals than immoderate different subordinate successful this fixture, but his deficiency of signifier showed successful a chaotic decorativeness to portion wide with conscionable Lammens to bushed astatine the backmost post.

Liverpool’s wealthiness of attacking endowment yet broke the doorway down erstwhile Federico Chiesa, who had replaced Isak moments earlier, drilled successful a debased transverse that Gakpo converted from constituent blank range.

Yet, their antiaircraft frailties meant parity lone lasted six minutes arsenic Maguire was near unmarked to caput successful Fernandes’s looping cross.

Gakpo should inactive person rescued a constituent erstwhile helium headed wide with the extremity gaping from Jeremie Frimpong’s inviting delivery.

But Liverpool fell to their archetypal league decision astatine Anfield successful implicit a twelvemonth successful different stroke to their hopes of usurping United with a grounds 21st English top-flight title.

Maguire told Sky Sports that it “meant everything” to get the win.

“It has been a agelong clip coming to travel to this crushed and prime up 3 points,” helium said

“The aged cliche is that it is lone 3 points, but it decidedly isn’t – it means a batch much than that for the club, the boys and the fans.”

Van Dijk told Sky Sports that Liverpool request to instrumentality unneurotic to get done specified a hard period.

“It is an absorbing clip due to the fact that we person to instrumentality together, not conscionable america arsenic players but arsenic a nine and the fans who privation america to win,” Liverpool’s skipper said.

“We request to enactment humble, enactment moving and support our assurance arsenic precocious arsenic possible. When things get tough, it is important we support the mentality of being determination for each other. It is simply a agelong season,” helium added.

In Sunday’s earlier Premier League game, Emi Buendia’s curling changeable sealed a 2-1 comeback triumph for Aston Villa against Tottenham.

The triumph continued Villa’s resurgence aft a hopeless commencement to the play and denied Spurs the accidental to provisionally determination up to 2nd successful the standings.

Buendia shimmied his mode crossed the borderline of the container successful the 77th infinitesimal astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier sweeping a cleanable changeable debased into the bottommost corner.

It was Villa’s fifth-straight triumph successful each competitions aft failing to prime up a triumph successful their archetypal six games of the campaign.

It ended Spurs’ seven-game unbeaten tally that looked acceptable to proceed erstwhile Rodrigo Bentancur fired the location squad up aft conscionable 5 minutes.

Morgan Rogers levelled the crippled successful the 37th earlier Villa went connected to instrumentality each 3 points and consign Tottenham manager Thomas Frank to his 2nd league nonaccomplishment since taking implicit successful the summer.