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LIVERPOOL legend Kenny Dalglish admits he expects Jose Mourinho to park the bus at Anfield on Saturday – and he doesn’t blame him.
Manchester United head to Liverpool and for all the renewed swagger at Old Trafford, Dalglish has warned Mourinho his side have not been tested against any of their likely top-six rivals yet.
And King Kenny reckons free-scoring United’s licence to thrill will be revoked this weekend.
Some Liverpool fans will never forgive Mourinho for executing the arch-spoiler’s blueprint when Chelsea’s 2-0 win at Anfield denied Brendan Rodgers’s Reds the title in 2014.
The rest were bored witless with United’s tactics on their last visit a year ago.
But in a results business Mourinho boasts 11 wins and eight draws from his 25 meetings with Liverpool. And Dalglish said: “Three years ago Jose brought Chelsea up to do a job and they did it really well.
“So there’s no blame apportioned to him because Liverpool missed out on the title. He was professional, utterly clinical and you can’t criticise him for that.
“He came back to Anfield with Manchester United last year with a similar philosophy but there are no rules which say you can’t play defensively and they almost snatched it at the end when Zlatan Ibrahimovic had that chance.
“And when he comes back for this game I’m sure he will be cautious again because this is United’s first game against one of the so-called top six.
“With respect to other Premier League teams, these are the games that might decide who lifts the trophy in May. Mourinho has a knack of knowing how to win games and if he thinks his best chance is to shut up shop he’s entitled to do that.”