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Ruben Amorim walks off after Manchester United’s draw with Wolves(Image: 2025 Manchester United FC)<\/p>\nLiverpool has taken 14 points from its last six Premier League games, and a win over Leeds will further boost the Reds’ chances of a top-four finishRuben Amorim walks off after Manchester United’s draw with Wolves(Image: 2025 Manchester United FC)<\/p>\n
Liverpool can boost its chances of Champions League qualification with a win over Leeds on New Year’s Day after Manchester United and Chelsea both slipped up in what looked like very winnable home games.<\/p>\n
Wolves, rooted to the bottom of the the table and destined for the Championship, avoided defeat for the first time in 13 games to claim a point with a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Bournemouth<\/a>, also in torrid form, clinched a point at Chelsea<\/a>, leaving the Stamford Bridge club with just one win in seven top-flight games.<\/p>\n Those results mean that Liverpool can solidify its position in the table with a win over Leeds: a victory will see the Reds move onto 35 points \u2013 five clear of Chelsea and United in fifth and sixth respectively.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Arsenal sends frightening warning to Liverpool and Premier League title rivals<\/a>READ MORE: John Aldridge tells Liverpool to make January transfer – but there’s a problem<\/a><\/p>\n Explaining why United found it so difficult against Leeds, head coach Ruben Amorim said: “Strange game. We knew it would be a different game to Newcastle.<\/p>\n “We needed more imagination today to create chances. We struggled in the first half trying to steal the ball. They put a lot of men in the midfield. We tried but the quality was not there. We need to recover to the next one.”<\/p>\n Referencing the absentees who are at AFCON, like Bryan Mbeumo and Amad, Amorim said: “We tried to overload one side but in Premier League you need one v one and you need that and we didn’t have it today. We don’t have the guys that play outside – we tried to overload the middle but today was not our day.<\/p>\n “Even against Everton it was three points lost, West Ham was two points lost. Always frustrating. Football is like that. If you focus on the performance, we struggled today.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Enzo Maresca neglected to conduct his media duties after Chelsea’s game due to illness, with assistant boss Willy Caballero speaking to the press instead.<\/p>\n “Yes, he is not feeling well,” Caballero said. “He did not feel well the last two days, but he made the decision [to manage tonight]. I don’t know how he found the strength to do it because we saw him working and he was suffering with a temperature and other stuff.<\/p>\n “Today he asked me to come to replace him because he did not feel well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool has taken 14 points from its last six Premier League games, and a win over Leeds will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,6274,393,4884,179,763,423,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-663854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chelsea-fc","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-fc","14":"tag-manchester-united-fc","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115812080245296980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}