Liverpool 1 Man Utd 2: Match Review
Author's summary: Liverpool's performance was not good enough.
Neil Atkinson's post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 1 Man Utd 2 in the 2025-2026 Premier League at Anfield… Liverpool created an enormous amount of chances, hit the woodwork three times, dealt with an appalling referee and conceded from a set-piece late.
It is, inarguably, not good enough. It is nowhere near good enough.
Liverpool are playing extended periods of matches like they have never met and it really isn’t good enough despite what we get in snatches. The problem is the snatches are good enough to earn draws and wins. The snatches are glimpses of what could be. Brief glimpses of how this could be overwhelming.
- They are the greatest garnish.
- But they aren’t meat and potatoes and right now Liverpool don’t have enough of either.
Right now the garnish is great but football matches don’t work that way. There is a counter argument: in the last four games Liverpool have had hard lines with the first goal. But to which I say: You get hard lines.