Stopped is a strong word . This game was purely down to Liverpool not finishing and giving a way the first goal from literally a nothing situation.

I feel Liverpool stopped Liverpool.

"If there is a plan, it's a poor plan" is totally right, and I would only add that Casemiro cannot play in that plan.

I'm not a Pool fan, but I genuinely get infuriated watching their attack fumbling so much. Darwin had so many opportunities to do damage but he just shit the bed, Dias had so many chances in front of goal to just slot it in, Salah was almost useless with the amount of time he would just waste possession. That front three should be embarrassed with themselves

Are Maguire, Lindelof, Evans, quick CBs to cover the oppositions runs in behind not to mention the absences of Martinez, Shaw, Malacia, Bissaka. Hence the reason a big gap in the midfield. Ten hag Cant play high press with these defenders, so the logical thing to do for the defenders is to stay back and guard the runs. And you cannot attack with just 4 players upfront these days you need the midfield joining in to build up play. Hence these gaps. If he gets the players he wants this summer and clears out some deadwood then we can better judge Ten hag style of play etc.

Inept finishing from Liverpool impacted the scoreline more than anything Utd did. 15 shots in the first half and one goal says everything..

It is indeed disgraceful that a team as good as Liverpool drops points against a side so woeful as Manchester United. It’s so awful to watch for so many reasons!

9:15 You didn't mention Casemiro, who is supposed to be the 6. He's up near Hojlund. For some reason (and maybe it's ETH's instruction), he loves to bomb forward knowing full-well that he doesn't have the legs to track back and he leaves absolute acres of space. He did the exact same thing against Chelsea time and time again and it was maddening.

If you’re falling already before contact it’s not a penalty….

Reality check: United played 2-2 against a strong and experienced Liverpool team fighting for the title at the top of the league… …and doing it with a team not even close: including 18 year old in midfield, a newly promoted 19 year old academy player at CB, and a right back forced to play left back, due to 5-6 injured defenders. “It’s disjointed. They’re not organised like Arsenal”. No shit!

Whilst I agree with a lot of your analysis I think that you’ve gone too hard on Man United and not dug Liverpool out enough. They were incredibly wasteful. They had 28 shots and only 7 on target. United’s midfield was nowhere to be seen, as you pointed out, and that meant Liverpool basically had a free run up to United’s 18-yard box on so many occasions and yet the two goals they scored were a corner and penalty. Awful in front of goal from them. There’s no way that side can continue being this complacent and sloppy and win the league. Neither Arsenal nor City would’ve let United have a sniff today. So poor from Liverpool.

The worst I've seen a team play and get a result against a top cub. They got two bits of magic and LFC weren't clinical.

The biggest issue Liverpool had was they were given so many good options whenever they got the ball the player on the ball was not sure which one was the best. It was ridiculous, so easy to get to the 18 yard box but then you could shoot because of lack of press, space out wide players going through the middle, but what to choose. Then we'd go wrong or butcher the finish, but united just wanted to counter and they made us focus more when they parked the bus and tried hanging onto the 2-1 win. It became a tighter game for space but instead of too many options there was only one or two in and around the box.

Yes, you are missing something. Neither did he get the ball...but Elliot moved his leg in to it. In the rules now it will not be changed but it is a dive into it. No attempt to carry on.

I am not saying that there shouldn’t be a penalty there, but just looking at one screenshot and saying „am I missing something” is hilarious. The controversy is around the fact that Elliot was going down before the contact

Liverpool have been winning games by coming from behind or scoring late winners consistently in 2024. They are wonderful in attack but concede several good chances virtually every game. It hasn’t felt sustainable and now they’ve inevitably stumbled against weak opposition. Is that really surprising?

Man utd have had 60 different injuries this season so far wtf Everyone talks about Liverpool and newcastles injuries Man utd have played 60mins with their full strength team this season and that was vs wolves

The main thing i noticed was United constantly launching the ball down the wings whereas Liverpool where able to go straight through united in the first half

I’m a United fan and ten hag is awful tactically we should have lost but scraped a result from individual moments which we’ve done all season. This is nothing new for us unfortunately

if maguire plays high up the pitch and gets caught out he is not recovering, same with wanbisaka and casemiros legs are out

Nah as a United fan you are absolutely correct we were dreadful I'm just happy we put a dent in their title challenge

I like the Football Weekly theory. United are so defensively irresponsible they baffle the opposition who have no idea what to do with all the space they are given.

As a Liverpool fan there’s nothing more frustrating than how Klopp has continuously let United get the better of us throughout his tenure when majority of that time we’d have more players in a combined 11

As a liverpool fan, Liverpool stopped Liverpool. Man United played like a team battling relegation. Fair enough to them that they got a point, but we lost 2 points ourselves, united had nothing to do with it. Man United fans should be celebrating the 1 point and the fact that we havent beaten them this season but shouldnt be proud of their performance. They had 0.0000 xg against us in the first half. even if you hit a ball from the touchline you still register some xg but that xg against your biggest rivals is awful.

3.5 to 0.7 Xg . Stopped is a string word especially from you James since you know better . Finishing isn’t akways equal.

ok lets judge an 18 year old graduate (Kobbie Mainoo) like his prime De Bryne

I can't actually believe the amount of people who cannot see what Ten Hag is trying to do. It's like people - never saw ETH's Ajax team - never watched United before ETH took over. It's all recency bias, outcome bias and stats that don't mean anything. Guess what, high risk football is what all the top teams do. Guess what, with better players the gameplan works better. Guess what, Liverpool haven't beaten us this season. Guess what, we're playing 3 teenagers in this game. Guess what, before Klop, Pep and Arteta had some success people were saying EXACTLY the same things. I'm so frustrated with the analysis of United at the moment. It's like people are worried that we might be building something strong so they have to knock it down and try to pursuade us to go for Southgate. I've heard our game plan described as "hoof ball" and "kamikaze football" and also apparently when we went to Liverpool we "parked the bus" I am a United fan and what frustrates me is the nonsense spoken about our last 4 games. ETH is not keeping to the media script and defying expectations. People are just proper salty about it when we aren't even winning anything. Why? Because they care about us having a good manager? RUBBISH its exactly the opposite. They want us to sack this guy because he worries them. Southgate doesn't

Thanks for the video! 19:08 It seemed to me that Harvey Elliot lets himself fall when he sees the challenge, eventually making contact with his foot (photo). A dive before the contact, (though there is a slight earlier touch to his foot, maybe at speed it could throw you off)

Never understand how in a game that ended a draw, the worse team are branded awful. Bad defending leads to a Liverpool shot and United are shambles etc etc. The biggest defensive mistake was from Liverpool, why was that not a shambles? Shambolic attacking display from Liverpool as in the 0-0 also. United threatened and were dangerous throughout, awful penalty decision lost them the game in reality.

AWB does not take his leg out, he goes for the ball and Elliot intentionally falls on his leg to make it look like contact

U r so good at analysing everything. I also follow football religiously and u have inspired me so much to really think about the game I am watching broadly and unbiasedly. Keep up the great content. Kerem from Turkey

Ten hag wants to press high but can't involve the whole team coz we're playing maguire at cb, n he's slow af. Maguire is also the reason y Casemiro doesn't push further up. But it's not really his fault, coz we have so many injuries so we have to play him.

I'm started to roll my eyes when I see the Diaz, Nunez, Salah front three line up. Honestly we went through a better period with Elliot in for Salah. Not to mention Jota is just a ridiculous miss for us, he's so so good.

Wasn’t a pen. AWB never actually made contact with Elliot. Elliot puts his foot into AWB’s thigh and falls over him.

Eliot tripped on his own foot and was already going down before he hit Wan Bissaka's leg.

I love how massive the name Kambwala Ndengushi looks on the tactics screen compared to all the other names

i don't think you'll find a united supporter who'll argue that we played any good today at all and liverpool mostly shot themselves in the foot by not doing anything with all their chances tbh. In the fa cup though i feel like united played better than liverpool and deserved the win

Love the analysis Jim. What I don’t understand is ETH surely can see what your seeing and knows how to resolve it positionally , so it’s either his decision to play that way or the players just aren’t interested in maintaining the shape he is trying to implement. Which one is it

Liverpool strikers were all thinking "this is the goal that wins the league" every time they got near the goal and shit the bed time and time again. The game was too big for quansah which is fair enough given his experience. You could see that pretty early on from his passing

James, Man United fans are fully aware how much of a shambles their team is at the moment. Their current frustration with content creators and the mainstream media is because the likes of Chelsea and Newcastle aren’t coming under similar fire in spite of similar performances.

Those gaps in the midfield were there from the opening game v Wolves, and highlighted by pundits and analysts that evening. Imagine telling them back then that this would STILL be the case as we head towards the end of the season. Shocking

Does anyone know what software James uses in his analysis??

Only goes to prove just how shockingly poor the premier league is that Liverpool have been unable to beat us after 3 attempts this season.

Not now Jim, not now

When u talk about united there are things that should be discussed about the squad , the attitude of some players are disgusting. -Bruno always looks for a hollywood pass and does not keep the ball. - Rashford without goals is useless - Ageing backline and it's injury concerns -Casemiro almost lost his intensity - Wingers not looking for the striker. - Is it worth keeping McTominay for his goals or sell him for a proper midfielder. - Ten Hag's shocking substitutions and overdependence on flair players to somehow win the game. Unless there is a proper clear out this summer no manager can save this team.

United being pretty awful is not new news. But taking a ad of screen grabs and drawing lines on them is ridiculously

if you see the video it's 100% not a penalty. you cant judge that of a still frame

Liverpool stopped themselves with giving away a goal and not finishing their chances more than United stopped them, but I like the analysis. And you're right, as a Liverpool fan, it was incredibly frustrating to watch that game when we were so much better and just failed to be effective and clinical.

Love the JLA tactics board ❤

liverpool are their own worst enemy this season, United didn't do shit, this was a bottlejob 💀💀💀

Totally agree with you about the tactical structure of this United team. We're constantly caught between a pressing front 5 and a low defensive block and it leaves massive gaps for opponents to counter into. However, I disagree with you that we're the luckiest team in the league. Injuries have decimated this squad, as I know it has for many other teams this season as well. Agree with the Cruyff quote but I also agree with the statement 'at the end of the season, the league table never lies'. This United team have won a lot of points this season from moments of individual quality. This doesn't make us lucky in my opinion but does mean we're unable to push on and create a sustainable way of winning games. We have got to do better.

Great analysis James, love the videos. I won't echo the sentiment of the comments because you've read it enough times. Really can't wrap my head around what Man Utd actually try to do in games. Will they ever escape having to counter attack the other big teams?

Honestly, united could've gone 3-1 up around the 70th to 80th minute if casemiro was a better passer

This was a football manager game where you stare at your computer screen and wonder how you didnt win

another thing, i think fans should begin to see how this type of play affect our injury problems, forwards pressing without a trigger, which is always running ☠️, defenders always having to be put in 3v3s and 4v4s where opposing attackers are running at them

No matter how good u are if u don't score u don't win games

The amount of times I saw MacAllister pass the ball into the midfield with no United player in sight or Szoboszlai dribble centrally with no opposition at all was insane. How do Man Utd fans watch this every week and not go mad??

They didn't stop us. We've got to the top of the table by being purely ruthless but in the past few games, since Jota got injured, we've lost that ruthlessness. Its a worry especially if Jota isnt back by the very next game

Just wanna say about the 'attitude' thing about players not tracking back, I think they are knackered due to Ten Hag's system asking them to cover such distances. The system is killing the players, and that's the first time I've said that post-Fergie.

It's crazy how Ten Hag hasn't been able to see this problem and fix it. Its been the same this whole season. Wolves in the first game exposed it. And nothing has changed at all. It doesn't matter who has played. It's clearly his tactics and they are shit

Liverpool is shit 😭

I don’t understand why Quansah didn’t just pass to Kelleher, rather than the riskier pass to van dijk, with GK off his line and 1-0 up

Liverpool had 90+ agaisnt utd in 3 games and scored 5 man utd scored 6… liverpool inability to finish has come back to haunt them dearly and I love it 😂😂

This match was a basketball game masquerading as a football match, which Liverpool were more comfortable operating in due to talent gap between the two clubs but Liverpool were playing with their food

United can’t play a high line with maguire so they just mix it together

Liverpool fans whinging again… shock

I love how everyone always talks about eth's plan being awful when Klopps plan was much much worse this game 😂

I think the penalty looks like Elliot is trying to initiate contact. But the problem is I don’t see where else he could have planted his foot without standing on wan bissaka

No need for over analysis, it was literally simply a case of Liverpool forwards not finishing their dinner.

Unfortunately despite all united short comings there is only 1 team in the league capable of stopping liverpool, and that is Liverpool themselves. Our own biggest enemy time and time again sadly

Curtis Jones infuriates me at times. Last 10 + OT especially. He can NOT pass a ball, he hugs it until someone takes it off him, which usually don’t take long. And he does this WAY too often. Havey was much more of a gamechanger. You can’t come into this game when we’re down and try to be fancy. Pass the ball!

Utd didn't stop Liverpool. They just didn't finish their chances.

James, I dont think ANY ManUtd fan would disagree with anything you said. Its so bloody obvious.

How does a team that wants to win PL and UEL, don't win against that?

Our 20 year old third choice defender made a terrible mistake, our most clinical finisher was injured, and our other forwards were wasteful, there i fixed it for you.

The problem with United is they're caught in two minds. They want to play pressing high up the Field football controlling the game but they don't have the player's to pull it off they have forwards who don't get back defender's who are to slow and midfield who can't control the game or don't work hard enough. Poor recruitment is ten haags biggest down fall.

Mainoo was told to stay defensive in the first half and the shackles were taken off in the second.

From 2-3 match ago, I just kinda feel that Liverpool is running on fighting spirit alone... Just on wanting to make a good last season for Klopp...

Are you watching the South African stream? I see the Discovery and Castle Lite ads 😂

Bravo to UTD for scraping a draw out of a game but I did talk to my son about this game saying UTD know how to play chaotic and individually. They play as 11 individuals. hard to plan a game and execute that plan when they play like this....they bring their A game to us because of the 7-0 and 5-0 games previously. They won't play this good for the remainder of the season

Huleman up top for United is an absolute menace

Cancel me if you want, but the Nunez experience is not effective. Firmino would either make the right pass of finish the attack. Move him on and get a lethal number 9. Scoring goals mitigates a lot of the stress on other areas.

I’m starting to think there is a conspiracy. 15mins here, 10mins of Carra on MNF…just pointing at the hole in MF but not the man who causes it, Harry Maguire. With Harry in the back line the defence cannot step up. But ‘this is Man United’ so we aren’t allowed to sit in a low block owners, fans and definitely the loudest voices in the punditry and internet tacticos such as yourself (see analysis and punditry after 0-0 @ Anfield). Apart from United fans, only Loz is willing to point this out, why? In the summer just gone, Maguire accepts a pay cut to join West Ham (fee had been agreed), ETH can get a back up CB who fits the system, more in the mould of Martinez. There just wouldn’t be this nonsense narrative that a world class coach can’t coach.

We need a rebuild or our entire attack onlt Diaz & Jota worth keeping

Manchester United won’t play well but they will bring a team down to their level then try beat them. I couldn’t believe how end to end it was but annoyed that Liverpool even got a point from a clear dive. What is VAR even there for made awful errors yet again this weekend

James, are we in a process to a new style of play with players who can’t play it? Physically, mentally and with accuracy. It’s drastically different to Ole, Mourinho. With better players this would still have issues but they would likely be more energetic, so they close down the issues with this style

Its about as blatant a pen as u can get. There is literally 2 moments of contact before elliot goes down not to mention what happens after...

Man U have quality players who can bury chances. They're setup poorly and have played crap all season but they bury their handful of chances, they've done it all season. They're a very dangerous team to play against, you give them a chance and there is a good possibility they take it. That's the only reason they are 6th.

The midfield is a mess for utd. Mainoo needs another baller next to him to pass between. But casemiro and bruno both gave the ball away almost every time they touched it

Won’t go down well with your friends at scouse sports news for their narrative will it!

60 injuries (most in prem history) 31 different back lines used 1st team used for 60 mins only But everyone is blaming eth for not beating everyone. Last 3 games we were leading goign into extra time. Yet the shit mentality and low iq from the player he has to play who are all backups make stupid mistakes. ETH is defo not immune to criticism but people have been on hos neck since day 2 with G nev and cara interrogating him after brentford in year 1. Ever since then the screaming has never stopped. I trust eth. Rather him then all the other managers available. The amount of players who have had their best season under eth is crazy. Rashford, wan bissaka, dalot, maguire, luke shaw all have had their best united season under ETH. Not only that he has been perfect with our youth. Bedding in garnacho for his nearly 40th consecutive start, mainoo killing it and kambwala looking really good. I mean ffs 4 of our players in the 1st team were under 21 and 3 players on the bench were under 21. He is great with the youth. More james united hating. This isnt ETH fault. Its the same shit every year for the last 6. No structure and the midfield does what it wants.

Hjurman? Hjulmen? Juulman? Human?

Consistently the best analysis on the KZfaq.

Love the tactical analysis from James but this was at best 10% on United and 90% on p*ss poor chance conversion and bad last passes in the Box. Liverpool stopped Liverpool yesterday... Mainoo has massive potential, though

Liverpool seem to panic against the big clubs, theyre bottom of the big 6 mini league, not the mentality monster they were once thought as

United using the chaos strategy against the big teams 😂 so it becomes a 50/50

This liverpool side is reminding me of arsenal at the december era. So wasteful in term of finishing chances and so bad at conceding silly goals

i want mainoo at arsenal - partey replacement, mainoo, rice & odegaard

Bad decision-making cost us the 3 points. Boz had 2 great chances, Nunez and Salah too. Another day, we'd be 6 up at half time. Funny ol'game! Stil plenty of football to go...

Peak example of "only have ourselves to blame"