Man Utd are now so bad they’ve made Roy Keane sad, while Liverpool are quite simply flying – The Warm-Up

WEDNESDAY'S BIG STORIES What’s bigger than a gulf? Ad/> It wasn’t great under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer or Jose Mourinho, it was pretty mediocre under Louis van Gaal, and frankly rather woeful for almost a season under David Moyes – but this has to go down as the worst Manchester United side for 30 years, doesn’t it? United have five games left to pick up 10 Premier League points, or else – factually – it will be their worst season for three decades. Premier League‘Embarrassing, disappointing, maybe even humiliating’ – Rangnick on Liverpool mauling10 HOURS AGO Man Utd points tallies post Sir Alex 2013-14 – 64 (7th) 2014-15 – 70 (4th) 2015-16 – 66 (5th) 2016-17 – 69 (6th) 2017-18 – 81 (2nd) 2018-19 – 66 (6th) 2019-20 – 66 (3rd) 2020-21 – 74 (2nd) 2021-22 – 54 (6th) with 5 games remaining It was second versus fifth heading into last night’s match, but come full-time it was first against sixth, with the defeat to Liverpool exposing not just a gap but an almighty gulf – a gorge? a canyon? – between the Premier League’s top two and this supposed sixth-best team in England.

/> The stats were damning. And damning is being kind.

A first half without a shot, 24 per cent possession come half-time, and by full-time the Liverpool rout rounded off a 9-0 aggregate win over United in the Premier League this season. That, for United, is their worst combined defeat in the league to another side for 129 years – losing 0-11 across two meetings to Sunderland in 1892-93.