Completing our US tour with a win 💚Liverpool always had great vibes while they are defeating Manchester United 🥳

Five talking topics as Liverpool’s pre-season game revealed Man Utd issues

The two most successful English football teams and passionate rivals squared off against each other in South Carolina: Liverpool emerged triumphant against Manchester United.

Arne Slot’s Liverpool dominated in the Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, in front of a capacity audience of 77,559, even playing one game less in pre-season than Erik ten Hag’s United.

Goals from Fabio Carvalho, Curtis Jones and Kostas Tsimikas gave Liverpool a deserved victory over United, who battled to match their opponents and suffered a chastening loss ahead of the Community Shield against Manchester City on Saturday.

From the latest US tour events for both teams, who returned right after the game, these are five talking topics.United suspect behind the rearTen Hag was compelled to leave Harry Maguire out of the Liverpool game as a precaution; it speaks everything about United’s lack of defensive options following the injury to Leny Yoro in the tour opener against Arsenal, which will keep him out for three months. Ten Hag is down to three central-backs in Maguire, Jonny Evans and Victor Lindelof, and cannot afford to lose any of them to injury without Yoro.

With poor defensive from United helping their bitter rivals with both goals, Liverpool rushed to a 2-0 lead at half-time. Ten Hag did not benefit from two of his makeshift back four, Lindelof and Aaron Wan-Bissaka, leaving for the appropriate fee while 17-year-old left-back Harry Amass, covering for Luke Shaw and Diogo Dalot, went up against a tough test in Mo Salah.