77 min: Wayne Rooney replaces Marcus Rashford.  76 min: Wayne Rooney will be on soon and he will score the winner.  74 min: Blind slips and Mane steams down the right. But Bailly mops up brilliantly.  72 min: Milner and Rashford are down after a clash of heads.  71 min: Coutinho livens things up, though, unleashing a drive from 25 yards that seems destined for the top corner. But De Gea springs to his left to make another fine save, tipping the ball over with his “wrong” hand.  70 min: You could hear a pin drop inside Anfield.  67 min: Pogba is down after picking up a knock in a collision with Milner.  65 min: All of a sudden, the ball is starting to come back at United. Could they do with getting the pace of Rooney on?  64 min: It’s only been a few minutes, but Liverpool look far more comfortable with Lallana on. Just you wait until they stick Steven Caulker up front.  62 min: Lallana links with Firmino, whose backheel sets him up for a shot that swerves well wide. “After your ringing endorsement of the first half, I’ve gone to the pub for the second,” says Matt Dony. “I can’t say I wasn’t warned, I guess.” At least you can drink.  61 min: “Are you aware of any particular reason that Klopp doesn’t turn to Origi especially with Sturridge not a gegenpresser?” says Mike Mackenzie. “I’m in favour of peddling Sturridge come January despite his goal scoring talent.” He just wanted to change the system, didn’t he?  59 min: He’s done nothing all night, but now David de Gea has made an outstanding save to deny Emre Can. The Liverpool midfielder popped up in space in the Liverpool area after drifting off Fellaini. He dribbled inside and stabbed a low shot towards the bottom right corner, but De Gea got down smartly to push it away! That’s Liverpool’s best moment of the game. And the cue for Lallana to replace the ineffectual Sturridge.  57 min: Coutinho makes the most of a nothing challenge from Herrera to win a free-kick for Liverpool. Herrera is furious. Coutinho lightens the mood by making a dog’s dinner out of the free-kick.  55 min: Adam Lallana has been sent down the touchline to warm up.  54 min: Manchester City v Barcelona will be better than this, won’t it? Guys? Hang on. Something happens here. Pogba beats his man with a slippery piece of skill and curls a cross towards Ibrahimovic from the right. Ibrahimovic mistimes his free header, though, sending it away from goal!  52 min: Liverpool are still to get going. Will Klopp turn to Lallana? Sturridge isn’t in this game.  49 min: This is almost a horror moment for Loris Karius, who knocks the ball straight to Pogba as Ibrahimovic closes him down, drawing anguished cries from the Liverpool fans. To the Liverpool goalkeeper’s immense fortune, Ibrahimovic is offside from Pogba’s pass. What a let-off.  48 min: Coutinho wriggles clear for what feels like the first time in this match and finds Firmino on the left. His cross is hacked clear by Young.  46 min: Off we go again. Let’s hope for better in the second half. Liverpool get it underway. “My colleague Dan and I are following the game from New York and it’s bad enough that this game kicks off on a Monday at 3pm (prime internal meeting time) but we’re having to deal with the ‘bugger all’ happening, which makes following the livestream even more difficult,” says John Butler. “Could you make stories up about aliens are invading Anfield or Rooney’s been subbed on and he’s turned good again? Whatever you think most believable.”  A half that did not exactly fly by.  45 min+1: There will be one minute of added time. Ashley Young has been booked for dissent as the United winger questions why Jordan Henderson wasn’t booked for a foul on Herrera.  44 min: A bored Anthony Taylor decides it’s Eric Bailly who will pick up the first booking of the night for an innocuous foul on Sturridge.  43 min: There’s still absolutely bugger all going on here.  39 min: There is absolutely bugger all going on here.  37 min: Red Monday, you say?  36 min: A long ball over the top finds Ibrahimovic. Liverpool’s defenders are nowhere to be seen. But he’s offside.  35 min: Milner’s corner is headed away by Ibrahimovic. “Given how good Manchester United have been at pressing Liverpool, are we witnessing the rise of the counter counter press?” says Oyvind Hofstad? “Or if you will the gegengegenpress?”  34 min: Mane teases Blind on the left, before feeding Clyne on the overlap. He wins a corner off Young, Liverpool’s first of the game.  33 min: Ibrahimovic turns a ball back into Pogba’s path. He very nearly breaks past Lovren and through on goal, but his touch is too heavy.  31 min: Milner lifts a free-kick into the United area. De Gea claims it easily.  29 min: Liverpool threaten for the first time, Henderson pinging a cross from right to left, Firmino heading straight at De Gea. He might have headed that back across goal to Sturridge.  28 min: United’s willingness to look forward each time they have the ball is ensuring that Liverpool can’t exert the high press. “I fear Bruce Jackson is right,” says Christopher Barnes. “How did the bolognese turn out the other night? You must have finished the cooking at midnight.”  We delayed it until tomorrow night. Sorry to disappoint.  27 min: Clyne knocks a pass down the line and out for a United goal-kick. Mourinho has killed Liverpool’s buzz.  25 min: Rashford pops up on the right and drills an awkward low cross into the six-yard box. Karius does extremely well to push it away to safety.  24 min: We’ve seen nothing from Coutinho, Mane and Firmino yet, while Sturridge has barely had a sniff of the ball. “So far the Kop has had more touches than De Gea,” says Marie Meyer.  23 min: At the end of a rare Liverpool sortie, Can blooters a wasteful shot harmlessly over the bar from 25 yards. He’s been poor. “Right, we’ve reached the end of the first 20 minutes,” says Bruce Jackson. “This is the point at which United’s intensity level drops, they start passing the ball around in midfield going nowhere, the opposition regroup, regain some confidence, and get a goal on the break. That’s been the past couple of seasons anyway. Can it be different this time?”  21 min: Blind swings in a cross from the left. It is incompetent.
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