{"id":135960,"date":"2025-10-21T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135960\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:44:11","slug":"lfc-tv-pundit-admits-one-man-utd-player-was-fantastic-vs-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135960\/","title":{"rendered":"LFC TV pundit admits one Man Utd player was \u2018fantastic\u2019 vs Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manchester United turned up at Anfield and were deserved winners against arch-rivals Liverpool in the Premier League.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a nine-year run of miserable results on Merseyside, Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-1<\/a> on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim outclassed Arne Slot<\/a> on the sidelines, leaving the Liverpool boss seething at United\u2019s \u201clong ball\u201d tactics after full time.<\/p>\n

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It was Harry Maguire who scored the dramatic winner<\/a>, while Bryan Mbeumo etched his name on the scoresheet within two minutes.<\/p>\n

But there were dominant performances across the pitch for United, and former Liverpool defender Phil Thompson picked out a different Red Devils star to praise.<\/p>\n

\"MatheusPhoto by Ash Donelon\/Manchester United via Getty ImagesPhil Thompson raves about Man United star vs Liverpool<\/p>\n

Amorim got his tactics spot on at Anfield<\/a>, including some bold selection decisions and the game plan that ultimately exposed Liverpool on their own turf.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest decisions made was to drop Benjamin Sesko for Matheus Cunha<\/a>, but the Brazilian repaid Amorim\u2019s faith with a world-class performance.<\/p>\n

A performance so good, in fact, that even LFC TV pundit Thompson couldn\u2019t help but praise United\u2019s summer signing.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Official Liverpool FC podcast<\/a>, Thompson said: \u201cI thought Cunha played very well.<\/p>\n

\u201cMbeumo did well, and I know he got the goal, but I thought Cunha for what he did, his work rate, his positional play. That\u2019s what you can say, out of possession, he was fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matheus Cunha brings more than goals to Man United<\/p>\n

It is easy to point out that Cunha has not yet scored or assisted for United this season, and yet every supporter will agree his signing has been a major success.<\/p>\n

United have often lacked a forward who can get on the ball and carry the team up the pitch, and Cunha does that superbly.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Matheus Cunha backs Rio Ferdinand\u2019s warning to Premier League with \u2018every game\u2019 comment after Liverpool win<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When played up front, his link-up play is extraordinary, and his ability to protect the ball is invaluable for United.<\/p>\n

Cunha is silencing his haters<\/a> at United, and his confidence will only grow when his first goal for the Red Devils eventually comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United turned up at Anfield and were deserved winners against arch-rivals Liverpool in the Premier League. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,81066,5,795,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-135960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-matheus-cunha","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-premier-league","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135960","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=135960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}