Liverpool 1 Manchester United 2: Amorim savours finest result yet as champions’ gloom deepens

“This is the kind of result that reverberates up and down the Premier League. Manchester United had waited almost a decade to win in the league at Anfield but, in condemning Liverpool to a fourth successive defeat in all competitions, they may just have breathed life into Ruben Amorim’s tenure at the club. The scenes of celebration in the away end at the final whistle certainly suggested as much. United, remarkably given the start they had endured this term, are just two points behind the champions. Arne Slot, his side undermined by profligacy at one end and sloppiness at the other, had endured a first home defeat in the Premier League for 400 days courtesy of Harry Maguire’s late winner. Of the quartet of losses they have endured of late, this defeat hurt most of all. …”
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