LIKE IT’S 1999
This is a big one if you want to go all the way
OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER has backed his fab four strike force to compound Liverpool’s misery at Old Trafford tomorrow.
Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane have endured a seven-hour goal drought in the league as Liverpool’s season has gone into tailspin.
And Solskjaer says his own front men can inflict further pain on Jurgen Klopp’s men in the FA Cup – despite the evidence of last weekend’s goalless draw.
Edinson Cavani, Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood give Solskjaer a handful of aces up front.
And manager Solskjaer said: “We’ve got players there to choose from who can get us goals from any game against any opposition. I’m very pleased with the ones I’ve got and we’re working hard to get the relationships with all of them, so we can use them all in different ways.
“Sometimes maybe all four of them will play.”
Liverpool are without a goal in their past four Premier League games including last Sunday’s 0-0 draw at United.
Reflecting on that game, Solskjaer denied United had lacked ambition and put it down to over-enthusiasm by his front men.
He said: “We attacked every time we got the ball, maybe too much. We kept giving it away and we went forward too quickly.
“It’s the quality of what we did, we need to do better. We tried to press them high. It’s not easy, they played well, they played their way out of our press.
“But we didn’t go out there to drop deep and try to soak up the pressure.”
United will be under more pressure to attack tomorrow given this is the cup not the league.
And they will be buoyed by the fact that Klopp’s efforts to look for midfield solutions to his defensive injuries or bench his players back into some sort of form do not appear to be working.
Solskjaer insisted his rival’s troubles are being overplayed, adding: “We played against a top Liverpool team.
“Yeah, Virgil Van Dijk is not there but everyone’s got an injury or two here or there.”