MANCHESTER UNITED VS LIVERPOOL BETTING TIPS AND PREVIEW

An awful lot has changed since Liverpool came to Old Trafford and put four past Manchester United on this weekend last year. For a starter they have already lost seven more games this season than they did in their entire 2008/09 league campaign, and they had also just beaten Real Madrid by four goals to nil and secured a quarter-final Champions League date with Chelsea. Now they are scrapping desperately for that coveted fourth place and are slumming it in the Europa League. 

However, the incentive to Liverpool remains large and the opportunity to derail Manchester United’s title bid will be just as appealing to their fans as the three points that would come with the victory. Albert Riera’s potentially unsettling comments did little to effect the side in midweek as they brushed off the attentions of Lille in the Europa League on Thursday night, yet the proximity of that game could prove to be a hugely detrimental factor here. Manchester United have had a full seven days to recover from their comfortable win over Fulham last week and now Jonny Evans, Rafael and Ryan Giggs are all back in contention.
United are 1.75 (8/11) with Betfair to win this one and even at odds on that may be a little too big. Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney are ominously striking up a good level of understanding and the defence is beginning to regain the solidity that was eluding them when they were struggling with injuries. If Liverpool are to win at 5.7 (9/2) then you feel that they will have to do something that they have rarely done this season – create chances from nothing.
These games are usually feisty affairs and there were two late red cards in the reverse of this fixture back in October. I like the look of Sportingbet’s 7/5 on their being Over 60 bookings points, which would take six yellow cards or a red and four yellows for us to collect.
United are the ever so slight 2.66 (13/8) favourites to win this year’s Premier League and it is games like this upon which the success of their challenge will depend. I fancy them to take all three points, probably courtesy of another Rooney header, and set things up nicely ahead of the United v Chelsea clash in two weeks time.