Liverpool kiss Champions League hopes goodbye

Christian Benteke has scored in his last three league appearances against Manchester United, but has lost two and drawn one of these three games.

Arsenal, missing injured playmaker Mesut Ozil, failed to capitalize on Leicester’s 1-1 draw at Aston Villa on Saturday, and dropped four points this week after also drawing at Liverpool on Wednesday.

Despite highlighting the positives from the display, Klopp was ultimately left disappointed with his side’s inability to convert their dominance into goals.

“It’s a derby and in a derby you only have one job to do and that is to win to have any chance of being satisfied after the game”. “I had really good moments with Sir Alex”.

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“The goal was to defend and we didn’t do it”, said Klopp. A cross in and Fellaini easily outjumped the reds defence to head it at the crossbar – the rebound smashed in by Wayne Rooney.

Though Bastian Schweinsteiger (knee) and Phil Jones (ankle) may be closing to a comeback, they are not expected to return in time for the game. “We played better, but we feel frustrated”.

Former Manchester United defender David May believes it is imperative his old club qualify for the Champions League this season – or they will risk becoming like Liverpool. If they can produce a similar kind of performance here while cutting out the defensive – and indeed goalkeeping – mistakes, Jurgen Klopp’s side will have a great chance of winning this.

But it was the Reds who were looking the most likely and when Henderson finally sorted out his radar after Firmino had wriggled free from Matteo Darmian he could only shoot straight at De Gea from 20 yards. “It was an honour to talk with him”, Klopp added.

Liverpool almost broke the deadlock in the 10th minute when Lucas played Adam Lallana through on goal, however David De Gea produced a fine save to deny the attacker.

A top-four place is probably too much to ask from the Anfield side, who’ll view the cup competitions as their best chance of success this season.

“So, all together, De Gea, had a few good saves and we had bad finishes”.

Van Gaal did remember a time when he was particularly animated when in charge of Dutch club Ajax – the 1-0 Champions League final win over AC Milan in 1995 where he almost kicked the fourth official.