Liverpool vs Manchester United at Anfield Sunday Evening.

Players to watch: Mohamed Salah’s ten goals vs United is the most by any Liverpool player, largely thanks to scoring a mammoth nine goals across his last five H2H outings.

Meanwhile, Marcus Rashford has been in the form of his life lately, scoring ten goals in his last ten league matches, and another here would see him join club elites Ruud van Nistelrooy, Eric Cantona and Cristiano Ronaldo as the only United players to score in six successive PL matches.

Hot stat: There’s been goals scored in both halves in nine of the last 11 H2H matches.

Despite Liverpool’s respectable home record against Big Six outfits in recent memory, beating relegation-threatened Everton, 10-man Newcastle United and a goal-shy Wolves is not comparable to facing Man United, and their recent streak of clean sheets may not serve them well against a Man United side with a penchant for multiple-goal showings.

Keeping up their two-goal streak may be too big an ask for Man United, but with each member of their first-choice backline well-rested alongside the integral Casemiro and Rashford, fresh legs may just do the trick for Ten Hag’s team.

Slowly but surely creeping up the ranks and threatening to upset the top-four apple cart, a wildly inconsistent Liverpool – who have just four wins to boast from their last 12 games – have risen to sixth spot in the table and are six points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur, albeit with a match in hand.

Even with their powers waning, one constant that has not changed this season is Liverpool’s Premier League record at Anfield, with the Reds losing just one of their last 35 top-flight games in front of their own supporters and taking 13 points from the last 15 on offer – keeping clean sheets in their most recent three such games.

Klopp thinks it’s more than just a big game between two of English football’s biggest rivals, insisting the visitors remain in the hunt for the Premier League title.

Jurgen Klopp on Man Utd game: “It is the derby, to be honest”; the Liverpool boss also tells Sky Sports’ Geoff Shreeves: “I respect what they’re doing, so it’s a big game”;

Liverpool possible starting lineup:

Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Henderson, Fabinho, Bajcetic; Salah, Gakpo, Nunez

Manchester United possible starting lineup:

De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Varane, Martinez, Shaw; Casemiro, Fred; Antony, Fernandes, Rashford; Weghorst