"Los Blancos" Liverpool beaten at their own game"

For a Grand Old Lady I was lucky to call my Mum.

*She was a Manchester United fan who raised a footballing agnostic, an Arsenal fan (hiss!) and two Reds of the LFC footballing faith!*

More to follow from this mini-series of readings from a book I'm immensely proud of and which is linked below together with an extract from this painful chapter (if you're a LFC Red!) and other ways and means of supporting me to thumb the eye of traditional publishers who refused to read my original manuscript!

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"Rarely in recent times have I had to form any sign of a coherent sentence on the Reds demise against their old foes from down the East Lancs Road in the north west “Derby” that rules them all. Alas, all good things must come to an end and Jürgen Klopp’s threadbare and toothless team can have no complaints as to this evening’s defeat. In truth, the all Whites from Liverpool only played in earnest for the final ten minutes of each half with Roberto Firmino as good as anyone in a first half as he hurried and scurried for loose balls and opportunities to start play from the “false 9” position, and Harvey Elliott growing into the game as the first half wore on.

The concession of the second goal so early in the second half stopped anything resembling a fight back and it wasn’t until the final ten minutes, and with the addition of Fábio Carvalho from the substitutes bench, that the all White Reds finally started playing again.

Mo Salah’s scrambled goal on 81 minutes gave the visitors hope as well as a 4/5 minute spell of intense pressure but, like the remainder of the match as a whole, they never threatened to score again.

Yes James Milner’s header was scrambled away from the goal line fortuitously as Bruno Fernandez and Lisandro Martínez conspired to spare each other’s blushes, but this was both a half chance and the only real chance created by Liverpool in the first half.

The second half?

Corners and crosses from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson saw tame headers from a Roberto Firmino who faded from the game, Fabinho, surprisingly substitute, and then even more surprisingly, replacing captain Jordan Henderson rather than perhaps James Milner in midfield. Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea saved smartly from a scrambled goal bound effort which seemed to come via his defender Lisandro Martínez at the near post but again with brutal honesty, he didn’t have much else to do all game. The above is a true summation of the minor chances created by Liverpool in a game they lost, lost badly, and deserved nothing from a game they barely participated in".

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