The FA Cup This is the only title that can still be won by Erik ten Hag’s Manchester United in the current season and to make matters worse in the quarterfinals they have to face this Sunday the Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpoolcoming to Old Trafford 2nd in the Premier (but with the same points as the leader, the Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal), qualified for the quarterfinals of the Europa League (their rivals are Atalanta) and Carabao Cup champion. Meanwhile, the Manchester United It was removed from the Champions League and Europe after the first stage and in the Premier League it is 6th, 17 points from the top.
The truth is that Manchester United-Liverpool It is, historically, the greatest classic of English football. The classic of the classics, although nowadays more attention is focused Manchester City-Liverpool. United and Liverpool They are the great adversaries par excellence. Even ahead of what their respective citizen derbies could include (United with City and Liverpool with Everton).
ManUnited and Liverpool titles
MANCHESTER UNITED
LEAGUES: 20
FA CUP: 12
LEAGUE CUP / CARABAO CUP: 6
COMMUNITY SHIELD/CHARITY: twenty-one
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: 3
EUROPEAN LEAGUE/UEFA CUP: 1
COLLECT: 1
EUROPEAN SUPER CUP: 1
INTERCONTINENTAL CUP: 1
CLUBS WORLD CUP: 1
LIVERPOOL
SUSPENDERS: 19
FA CUP: 8
LEAGUE CUP / CARABAO CUP: 10
COMMUNITY SHIELD/CHARITY: 16
SUPER CUP (1986): 1
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: 6
EUROPEAN LEAGUE/UEFA CUP: 3
EUROPEAN SUPER CUP: 4
CLUBS WORLD CUP: 1
This conflict also arises due to social and economic reasons. Manchester and Liverpoolcities separated by only 56 kilometers, are the two largest cities in north-west England, rivals on an industrial and economic level, especially because the Manchester Maritime Canalthanks to which the businessmen of Manchester could stop paying high taxes in the port of Liverpool.
But also, at the sporting level, Manchester United and Liverpool They are the two English clubs with the most titles. At league level, United have the absolute record, 20, but Liverpool, second in this ranking, are just one behind what they won in 2019-20. Of the 20 Old Trafford leagues, 13 under the command of Sir Alex Ferguson.
Liverpool and Manchester United are also the most successful English clubs in Europe. At Champions level, Liverpool won 6 and Manchester United, 3.
And this rivalry also has a dark narrative: the references of the ultra fans of both clubs to the tragedies of the rival team. In particular, the songs of the Liverpool radicals about the tragedy in Munich, where on February 6, 1958, 23 members of United died in a plane crash; and the chants of United radicals, about the Hillsborough stadium tragedy in Sheffield, where on April 15, 1989, 96 Liverpool fans died in an avalanche.
Source: La Verdad
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