Mohamed Salah had a hand in all three goals as he sparkled again at Old Trafford. Re-live the game with the best facts and Opta stats in our Man Utd vs Liverpool stats page.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Manchester United vs Liverpool stats from their Premier League meeting at Old Trafford.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own post-match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Manchester United vs Liverpool: Post-Match Facts
- Arne Slot is the first Liverpool manager to win his first meeting with Manchester United since Bob Paisley in November 1975, and just the second to do so away from home after George Kay in November 1936.
- Manchester United have lost three of their last five Premier League home games against Liverpool (W1 D1), as many defeats as across their previous such 18 matches (W12 D3).
- Liverpool have won each of their opening three Premier League games without conceding for the first time since 2018-19, when they finished as runners-up to Manchester City on 97 points.
- Manchester United have lost two of their opening three matches of a Premier League campaign for the third time in the last five seasons (also 2020-21 and 2022-23), with Erik ten Hag the only manager to suffer that fate twice with the club in the competition.
- Arne Slot became just the third manager to win each of his first three Premier League games without conceding, after Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2007 and José Mourinho in 2004.
- Erik ten Hag is the only Manchester United manager to lose three Premier League home games by 3+ goals in the space of a year, also suffering 3-0 defeats to Manchester City in October 2023 and Bournemouth in December 2023.
- Luis Diaz has scored more Premier League goals against Manchester United than any other opponent (4), whilst he was the first player to net twice at Old Trafford in the opening 45 minutes of a league game since Pascal Groß for Brighton in August 2022.
- Mohamed Salah has either scored (12) or assisted (6) 17 of Liverpool’s last 23 Premier League goals against Manchester United – the Egyptian has more goal involvements versus the Red Devils (18) than any other player in the competition.
- Mohamed Salah has scored 10 goals in nine appearances at Old Trafford for Liverpool in all competitions. He is only the second player to score 10+ goals at a single away ground for Premier League clubs since 1992-93, after Alan Shearer (10 at Elland Road).
- Mohamed Salah is the first player to score in five straight away appearances against Manchester United in the Premier League; Dion Dublin (v Tottenham), Alan Shearer (v Leeds United), Ruud van Nistelrooy (v Newcastle), Robert Pires (v Tottenham) and Jamie Vardy (v West Brom) are the only other players to net in as many consecutive away trips to the same opponent in the competition.
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