Perhaps it was appropriate that José Mourinho and his players stayed at a hotel named after the Titanic. Fill in your own jokes here. This victory moves Liverpool 19 points clear of Manchester United, with not even half a season played, and returns Jürgen Klopp’s team to the top of the Premier League in a title race where their arch-rivals can barely be considered even an afterthought.
For all the historic rivalry of this fixture, it is the other team from the other end of East Lancs Road that should be uppermost in Liverpool’s thoughts now. Liverpool versus Manchester City is all that matters now. And United? They are barely a speck in the distance. Mourinho’s team have conceded more goals by mid-December than they did throughout the whole of last season and, for a club with United’s ambitions, it is difficult to shake the feeling that their manager could pay the price with his job. At any of his previous clubs, it would probably have happened already.
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