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The Sky Sports Football Podcast

Man Utd issues, Liverpool quadruple chase - Liverpool vs Man Utd preview special with Sky Sports News' Melissa Reddy

The Sky Sports Football Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports, Sports News, Soccer, News

4718 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On the latest edition of the Essential Football Podcast, we look ahead to Tuesday's Sky Live clash between Liverpool and Manchester United at Anfield, which could play a major part in deciding the race for the Premier League title and the top four.

PART 1 | Sky Sports News senior reporter Melissa Reddy, fresh from interviewing Ralf Rangnick, assesses the mood at Old Trafford after scraping a 3-2 win over Norwich, where boos from the stands leave Paul Pogba and the ongoing situation regarding Erik Ten Hag and an Old Trafford summer rebuild.

PART 2 | Sky Sports senior football journalist Pete Smith and features writer Nick Wright analyse Liverpool's quadruple chances, their performance against Manchester City, Mo Salah and Sadio Mane's contract situations and how Thiago Alcantara has helped evolve the Reds' style this season.

PART 3 | What hope do Manchester United have at Anfield? Will the 5-0 at Old Trafford play a part in the return fixture? How will Klopp balance his squad with Everton up next and would United stay in the race even with a defeat...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sky Sports Football Podcast brought to you by Bet365, where every now biting nil-nil, every bizarre VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap-in, full-start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing.

0:17.3

From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsport. Whatever the moment, it's

0:22.5

never ordinary at Bet 365.

0:35.5

Hello and welcome to a Liverpool versus Manchester United special edition of the Essential Football Podcast.

0:40.9

Looking forward to Tuesday night's game in Amfield live on Sky Sports, which could prove pivotal in the race for the title and for the top four.

0:49.0

Fresh from confounding Juergen Klopp's quadrupled doubts, yet again, Liverpool returned to Premier League action looking to go top of the table for 24 hours at least, while Manchester

0:58.2

United, who scraped to a three to win over bottom side Norwich on Saturday, may be wincing

1:03.3

at the idea of a trip to Amfield. There's plenty going on at Old Trafford on and off the field.

1:09.4

So let's start with Ralph Ragnick's side.

1:11.3

And to discuss them, I'm delighted to be joined by Sky Sports News's senior reporter Melissa

1:15.7

Reddy, who's been across all the drama as United close in on their next manager.

1:21.1

Melissa, it certainly doesn't sound like it's been a dull story to cover so far.

1:24.8

No, Manchester United are anything but dull. Even when they're a drab on

1:29.2

the football pitch, you can be guaranteed that they'll entertain you in other ways. Where are we as

1:35.7

things stand at the moment? You know, Eric Ten Haag's name is, seems to be the one that's been

1:40.0

finalized for the last couple of weeks, but just seems to be getting it over the line now after what,

1:43.6

there were some noises that came out of Iax over the weekend. Yeah, we covered it about

1:48.3

two weeks ago saying that compensation and how to handle an announcement had been discussed

1:55.2

between Iax and Manchester United. Once he had his formal interview and it was made so public, this was always going to be the

2:05.5

conclusion.

2:06.1

He was going to be the next manager.

2:07.8

The only real rival he had for the position was Murcia Pocetino.

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