How Liverpool smashed Manchester United 3-0 | Ian Wright Review | Arne Slot can win this season ?! 🏆

three weeks in but the Premier League table is very much starting to take shape and it looks familiar Manchester City at the top they're above Liverpool Brighton and Arsenal both stay in the top four despite sharing the spoils at the Emirates a late late win for borma propelled them into the top 10 meanwhile the bottom three include two teams yet to get off the mark ipswitch and Palace both got their first points of the season this weekend and they sit just outside the relegation places Chelsea are just in the Bott half on goal difference [Music] only and here to talk through everything with us Darren Lewis and Owen har gaves and it's a big one to to start talking about which is Manchester United against Liverpool you said when when you first came in today that you thought it was pretty similar from what you've seen from Manchester United and Liverpool in Seasons gone by is that that mostly the case for Manchester United you think rather than than Liverpool in in respect to the results at the minute no in terms of in terms of the performance the balance of play the way the game went I thought that Liverpool um it was it was a different kind of performance from Liverpool it didn't feel so um how man united want it when they play against Liverpool more basketball matches so it's like transitional and man united get the opportunity to break on the Liverpool side that are kind of left themselves a little bit open on the Counterattack it looked very much more um robust at the back I think graen Burch has a lot to do with that and it just seemed more controlled it felt it felt like um Liverpool in total control of that at no stage was I feeling like you know man united were going to be able to come play that game they seem to have the character of their manager already it's very very in control they were well let let's start by by talking about Liverpool then because there there have been changes not wholesale changes not huge changes but definitely there is that that feeling of control it feels a little bit less emotional Owen possibly but I do think he's a brilliant manager who's inherited you know one of the best worlds of players in the Premier League so you probably don't need to change too much maybe the transitions won't be as big he's got three Central mid players they're all ball players so maybe wants to play a little bit more but I don't think they're going to play too dissimilar to the way y CL played why would you change it you know he's built up something so special normally when a manager leaves a squad it's CU team's not very good or the you know or or the players aren't very good Liverpool have an incredible Squad of players Allison and and Van djk and Alexander Arnold malles the whole pitch the front six are incredible so I do I like the fact that he hasn't gone in there and ripped it up he just kind of complemented what they have obviously there's subtle differences but I think in the O I don't think they play too dissim to the way clubs Liverpool played at the moment he went over as well to the the traveling supporters they were singing his name they did that at at anfield for his first home game last week as well and he seems to have been taken to their hearts very quickly particularly given that they they lost a manager in Jurgen club that as Owen said there was no reason to fall fall out of love with him it just you know it just came to an end and now that then Leo the king is dead long live the king yeah absolutely I think the transition of power has been uh really quite impressive actually because obviously they got to know him at the end of last season he's on the pitch with uh Yen klopp who leads the chance for him and clearly he's done a lot of work behind the scenes with the club before the summer um and he's not changed that much he's not come in and being so caught up with his own ego to believe that he's got to change Club where there are already good players there's already a fantastic Academy the coaching staff behind the scenes are terrific fans are there fans are behind fans will take you to their hearts regardless what is there to change and the start of the season has been terrific three games three clean sheets now last season they conceded 41 goals behind Arsenal and City and that cost them the title this time around they look so much more obaron up front they score goals of fun how important is is Ryan graur and and the that he's doing which he probably wouldn't have expected to be doing at this stage of the Season CU we know that Liverpool were after a number six yeah he's a brilliant player and the thing is he didn't really work out for him at Bayern Munich but we saw at Ajax there's a super talented player in there but I don't think he's a defensive Midfield player I think with the the way they play there's three in there and they all kind of complement each other you know one goes forward one drops off it was interesting after the game when he spoke to Roy Keane after and he spoke about the Tactical plan which I thought was amazing did it so quick and and he was saying when we win the ball then all the guys as a good Runners they can get into the box so he doesn't just want a defensive mid playay to sit like an old school one he wants them all to be able to play and then get into the box as well so I I like that I like the fact that he he trusts the players but also Grabber is what he's like 6' three yeah he's quick he can run he can play he can do everything in there I think he could be anything for that team his defensive work in that particular game was something that they would have looked at and thought wow because like you mentioned he's not like the sixes he's probably eight in and getting forward as an it getting into the box we know can get in there and score goals as well but they must have been um pleasantly surprised that they've seen in training how good he is maybe doing the number six stuff as well if he the number six work if he gets himself in that position because like like we know Liverpool they go for their man if they don't get their man like they don't just say right let's go for the next one they'll go okay let's see and then they've obviously said like we'll try we'll try run in there and at the moment we're talking three games it looks like wow it looks like it looks pretty solid the thing is the counter created all the goals you know turning over the ball you know the first one casir makes a poor ball fullbacks out of position but the Press actually created all the goals and I think that's what you don't have to be a brilliant defensive Midfield player so you just got to be good at pressing which I think graen Brook is probably of the three is probably the best of those of those that that Midfield three is it a bit like when there was that move away from Strikers to the kind of front three and everybody sort of changed positions is that sort of a little bit how it's working in that that Liverpool Midfield I don't know I when I played I always prefer to play with guys that we all could all everybody could do everything so it wasn't like oh you just stand there and you just do that you go create or you score goals right let's take our turns we all play football because we want to play and we want to get a ball we want to shoot we want to score okay sometimes we have to defend sometimes I have to sit in but if righty goes I I'll sit in for him and if down goes you know I'll sit in and and I like the fact that they whoever's kind of in the right position at the right time they kind of go and I think that's probably what players prefer rather than just being pigeon hold say you stand there and you do that and you do that I think the players have a little bit more freedom to depending on what the game has so do they need a number six then an out and out number six to win the Champions League in the Premier League you need a rodri or you know maybe not rodri because he'll probably win the B door you need somebody top level and I do think if they get that they could wi they could win everything but Z if they could get zuba Mendy he's the one you think that could be that guy I think he could be that guy probably I I'll be honest I played that position and I think the teams that win you don't win with a playmaker there you's got to still be a defensive Midfield player when you need it in the transitions when you got to foul when you got to break things up you know I think that position is super um super unique I don't think you need to be a ball player to play in there um so I'm I'm a fan of having a guy that yeah he can play like rodri but he can still tackle too I think when you're trying to put a poo in there po work CU he had guso do you know and I think all the top teams that have won the league in the pr in the Champions League they all had a defensive Midfield player that was still there cuz when righty's popping in there as a Striker I can't have a number 10 cuz he's not going to know he's not going to how to win a tackle do you know what I mean so I think it's a it's a subtle difference but you still need to be able to tackle in big moments and I think even I bet van dijk would probably prefer that having somebody in front that in the moments he knows going to there going to tackle so explain that subtle difference because it's you're the perfect person to to have here to talk about what Liverpool the position that Liverpool are trying to fill the person they've got in place who like you said has has got all the attributes but it isn't his specialist position just explain the subtle difference you having a graen Burke in there and getting whether it's superi or who whoever it is as an out andout number six well I think everybody's trying to play too much football now and in in the end a game of football there's only one Ballers 22 players why do I need my defensive M to be a playmaker yeah he should be able to play football but if a say a worldclass number 10 pops have been there and I play against I don't know UDOT I need to be able to tackle if I'm a ball player I can't tackle if if a really defensive Midfield player plays in there he I guarantee he'll probably get he'll turn the ball over probably 10 times a game that's 10 extra looks for me to get the ball to say to Kevin De bruyne if you give Kevin DEA extra 10 looks at winning a game I can pretty guarantee you you're probably going to win the game but if we had that problem with England we had all these brilliant Midfield players but none of them were specialists at kind of getting the ball back so when we played anybody good we couldn't get the ball back and I do think if you're a defensive M player a specialist in there you get the ball back and you get it to the guys that win you game mallister and Salah and they'll go win your game if you're a ball player in there what do you want to do you want to play let Mo play let mallister play let you know Diaz play they're the guys that win you games moella has frequently been the player as you say he's he's won Liverpool games very interesting I imagine your journalistic here pricked up when you heard his his postmatch interview where he said quite casually yeah in the middle of a a more full answer that was my last season at at Liverpool he expanded that a little bit later on and said I've not had any coners ations with the club as yet but it sounded certainly on first hearing quite decisive from from moella what what did you take from it well I was shocked that he offered it rather than being having it teased out of him um I mean obviously what does that tell you then if you've got somebody who puts that on the table as big a line as that on the table without being being pressed it says to me that they want to send a message whenever I've interviewed footballers before you guys have been in similar situations I would imagine where you've wanted to get that message out out there your airs prick up when a footballers give you the information rather than you having to actually push them into a corner to give it and then he actually didn't just offer it but then he gave detail around it as well I'm just going to continue in this season I'm going to enjoy it as if it's my last and he's either saying to the club on a new deal or he's saying to other clubs I'm available because I haven't started talking to it was beautiful from him really it was geniusly played yeah creates three goals M comes down and says they haven't spoke to me that's exactly I'm on a free you say I ain't heard from and now all a sudden the pressure goes on to Club what why why have you not offer him a new deal what Mo's only 32 isn't he yeah 32 he's too he's way too good to be going to majorly fit we're talking about somebody that um Liverpool if if that's the message he trying to send listen I'm are we going to start talking contracts because there's going to be a a line a parade of clubs that that would take him the way he is how great he is his Fitness his hunger you and the thing is as well Liverpool is I do get the impression that he would probably like to stay at Liverpool and break records he's got that Legacy player if he stayed let's say he's stayed for 3 years and like even if he dropped off in the the last that's 10 years of unbelievable service I believe that he would probably he would he would he would probably set if Liverpool go about it and like I know that people get very nervy around 30s and giving people contracts in their 30s I think that he's an exception in the way that he prepares himself and the way he plays I think it's AB absolutely I agree with that I think he's 32 but if you look at him his body is like a Greek god the way he lives his life he doesn't drink he doesn't Smokey you don't find him falling out of nightclubs but also the interesting for me is that he's hearing a different voice now and that could be quite key because he he's not working under Klo anymore if he were to move it would be he would imagine for another challenge well in slot he has that challenge he has different ideas on how to play the game and he's still at a club where he can win another Champions League like you said they can win everything if they were to get that play Prem League they are absolutely Premier League contenders at the moment so I think he's at the right place it wouldn't surprise me if they were to sign a new deal if they were not anywhere to go for example Saudi Arabia you could see why speaking his mother tongue out there he is a God but he likes his privacy as well and when he goes out there for the afcon sorry goes away for the afcon um they treat him obviously as they should do like the superstar that is but he doesn't get that privacy and I just wonder if in Liverpool he might feel a bit more comfortable staying at the top level of Club European football and obviously we want to be able to to keep watching him while he's at the at the peak of his his powers even if he is at 32 and as you say clubs can get a bit nervous about players in their in their 30s as for for Manchester United while the changes at Liverpool might be small they have had a change of manager and it does feel as that there are definitely tweaks to the way that they're they're they're setting about things this season has anything changed from Manchester United do you think Owen well the leadership structure has changed well has anything changed on the pitch I was hoping it would be a better start to the season I thought the first 20 minutes they were all right I thought they went Toe to Toe with Liverpool actually I thought they were level in the game but the same problems that happened in the last two years under tag when they can see the goal they can see the second they can see the third real quick and they fold really quick and I don't know why that is because you know they had a decent recruitment in terms of the summer feels like a good summer but the problem is on the pitch they're still mile off the top teams and you would have thought with the money that they spend and the time that Eric had there there'd be a clear identity and how they want to play and still I mean slots had three games and we know how he's playing and the fact of the matter is they keep losing these big games at home against Liverpool it's not done you know you can't keep playing that way I mean there was 30,000 people that left the stadium halfway through the game in the biggest game of the year so pressures on Eon the performance have been I thought yesterday was terrible really terrible you know what KS when you when you look at the way they do play even though they were duking it out with with Liverpool at the start and then Liverpool scored their goal and then like you mentioned they scored again it's it's simply because the way they're playing and the structure in which they're going to play in they're going to still try and maybe play it to the to the to the fullback into maybe casemiro maybe excuse me into Cobin they're not going to change that so Liverpool the way they were pressing so well so high Liverpool just say well if you're going to carry him playing that then we'll do that then we'll score you're going to carry him doing it then we'll score again because that's true righty I like that slot said after he said yeah we just said we'll keep the the wide players High yeah because he knows the fullbacks going to go what happen on the first goal Casmir look it's a bad pass right Casmir gets all all the criticism the fullbacks can't be there they just can't be there against Liverpool you know where the forbs get in this crazy position where they're too high okay it's a bad ball where are you two fullbacks against Liverpool it's crazy and that and that's on the manager at the back post where Mai should be even and he's actually played quite well in two games he should just be there he has get a tap in at the back post so I appreciate funny because for Bayern Munich you'd very seldom see mazwi caught out in that man so high up the pitch for main United he's a couple of games in and he's making an Elementary mistakes like that but again that's on the manage cuz he's saying absolutely when we get the ball you go high you only go high when you have good possession United didn't have good possession what he was saying after the game Eric ten hog was not not to say we played well and we were you know but he made similar points to to yours which is you know for 20 minutes we were we went toe-to-toe with them and the the goals were down to individual errors but other than that and statistically the game is I mean his argument is is borne out that there wasn't actually that much between Manchester United and Liverpool it didn't look like that it didn't feel like that watching the game he also talked about Del you know not quite having bedded in xery not quite having beded in that this is going to be different maybe casemiro doesn't start the the next game if he's not going to get back up to to full fitness are any of those valid arguments do you think not for me no unfortunately for it's important to put well the interesting thing was a press conference cuz one of my colleagues was in there and uh saying could it be about yourself because after all the money all the time that he's being given um and all of the problems that they've had eventually the spotlight does have to come on to him and one of the sen more senior colleagues in the dress room put that in the in the press conference put that to him and he tried to put it back on the journalist and say well what do you mean and the journalist reeled off a whole host of things that are wrong with the team and I don't think tenh har expected that to happen but it was an illustration of the fact that the criticisms of him are born in fact they're not just born in arbitrary attempts to undermine or discredit him these are specific things specific holes you can picking the team after all the time all the money that's been spent all of the players that have come and gone and I think that people want Eric to do well don't they they do want him to do well absolutely they are one of the superpowers in in World football they do want man united to do well the premier league needs a strong Manchester United but at the moment there are players underperforming the full you know there are tactical areas that you summed up so well where they're just falling down for a club of that size and when you compare them to a city to an Arsenal to a Liverpool that defensive structure isn't there that goal scoring potential isn't there the Midfield is all over the place they are just shapeless and I I do not see him lasting the season that's a big thing to say but it's so difficult because as as media people we cannot continue to see what's not there M and and and it's been going on for a while now you you've seen in U in schots like three games we know we we see the we see the we see the structure we see what he's he's trying to do and unfortunately with ten Aron is something that's going to be continually thrown back at him is that we still don't know his system he's plan how he wants it to that's it they sloted three games in and Liverpool have an identity get a little bit of an identity and that is one of the things that when he says you know we were okay for 20 you come to Old Trafford and you expect that they're going to be blasting you for 20 minutes back in the day it was some of the ways that they finish games off seen it watched it so many times man united are always going to come for 20 minutes where they're going to be on top but what they haven't got now what they um what they had back in the day is a structure and a and caliber of players and and a discipline where we're going to do this but we're going to actually do this for probably the whole game and then we're going to get it to our Wingers we're going to cause you problems with with with ten hog there's no structure like I don't know they're going to score do they don't look like they're going to score and Liverpool had like has got like a front seven where K are coming in that's what man united used to have back in the day Yori and Cole and Sh Relentless pressure they had five six guys they rotate him in United now they're relying on two young kids to play a striker position they're good players but at the top of the pitch you see it over at City that's the level Harland you need that or you like Liverpool you get seven seven guys to get you 15 I think for United the start of the Season couldn't have been much worse for ten because everybody hoped with the recum would be better but it looks like the same issues are there especially when you concede and and you go down and that's the point as well three games in maybe too early to judge if it were a new manager but it's based off what what's gone in in the seasons before as well sorry D no the only point I was going to make is that you look at the start that City have had three go three games three wins Liverpool three games three wins Arsenal's three games two wins and a draw maybe should have been we should have which can someone buy me please appreciate it [Music] [Music] [Music] reloading a got one my ALT is ready enemy spotted [Music] a enemy spotted a you will not kill my allies barrier created it's you and me one dead enemies last player standing like I never [Music] left youh 30 seconds left [Music] one enemy [Laughter] remaining 10 seconds left dropping a smoke [Music] let you go