Paul Merson has made his prediction for Liverpool vs Manchester United and revealed one reason why Arne Slot\u2019s side \u201ccan\u2019t win\u201d the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Before the international break, Liverpool<\/strong> <\/a>suffered a poor decline as they lost three straight games against Crystal Palace, Galatasaray and Chelsea.<\/p>\n During this run, the Reds slipped from the top of the Premier League, and they are behind Arsenal in the table heading into this weekend\u2019s set of fixtures.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Liverpool\u2019s next Premier League match is a big one as they host arch-rivals Manchester United at Anfield.<\/p>\n Ahead of this game, Merson has commented on Liverpool\u2019s recent form after they comfortably were the biggest spending club in Europe in the summer.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ:\u00a0RANKED: Five Premier League managers who most desperately need a win this weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Liverpool mostly focused on reinforcing their attack in the summer as they missed out on Marc Guehi and didn\u2019t sign a new centre-midfielder, with Merson arguing that they \u201cwent too top heavy\u201d in the last window. He has also revealed why he thinks they may fail to win the league this term.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought Liverpool fully deserved to get beat by Crystal Palace and Galatasaray. They must get back on track now,\u201d Merson told Sportskeeda.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAll the three Liverpool defeats have come away from home and now they return to Anfield. We all know Liverpool are a different beast on home turf, and Manchester United haven\u2019t been great on their travels!<\/p>\n \u201cI said this before as well, Liverpool went too top heavy in the summer transfer window. People told me Alexander Isak would help Liverpool walk the league.<\/p>\n \u201cBut what it has done is, created a confusion inside Arne Slot\u2019s head! It will be at least until December when Slot knows his best team. And if you don\u2019t know your best team, you can\u2019t win the league title!\u201d<\/p>\n However, Merson has also backed one Liverpool summer signing to \u201ccause problems\u201d against Man Utd<\/p>\n \u201cI have a feeling Isak will start this game because of the transfer fee. You just can\u2019t leave him out when you pay that kind of money, can you? If you pay over \u00a3100 million for players, they have to be in the line-up for the big games and this is one of them,\u201d Merson added.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 \u201cI also think Florian Wirtz is a decent option for this game. Manchester United are not strong in midfield and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Slot deploys Wirtz in that no.10 role. I believe Wirtz can cause problems to United too.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to talk about Mohamed Salah as well, he has struggled so far this season. Without Trent Alexander-Arnold, he isn\u2019t the same player.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Liverpool had Trent, he was so good on the ball that opponents had to get close to him and always put pressure on him whenever he had the ball. Now that he\u2019s gone, teams are just doubling down on Salah on that flank and giving him no space.\u201d<\/p>\n Merson finished by backing Liverpool to beat Man Utd 2-0 this weekend, with Ruben Amorim\u2019s side to be \u201clucky\u201d to escape with anything.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think Liverpool will lose at home, they will snap out of this run,\u201d Merson continued.<\/p>\n \u201cManchester United will be lucky if they can walk away with something from Anfield.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Merson has made his prediction for Liverpool vs Manchester United and revealed one reason why Arne Slot\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1268,18,42799,794,19,17,1009,20,5,51931,795,132,5279],"class_list":{"0":"post-127185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-florian-wirtz","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-manchester-united","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-paul-merson","18":"tag-premier-league","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-uncategorized"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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