Andy Robertson says Liverpool had the Old Trafford crowd ‘exactly where we wanted them’ in Sunday’s win over Manchester United.
The Reds crushed their arch-rivals 3-0 on their own turf thanks to a Luis Diaz brace set up by Mohamed Salah, who added a third in the second half.
It could have been even worse for Man Utd, with Trent Alexander-Arnold seeing a seventh-minute goal disallowed by VAR for an offside call on Salah.
However, rather than giving United fans a boost, Robertson believes it helped swing the game further in Liverpool’s direction, putting the near-74,000-strong Old Trafford crowd on edge.
“I think it did more for us than it did for them even though it got disallowed,” Robertson told Liverpool’s official website.
“I think we just thought, OK, this is it, we’ve got them kind of where we kind of want them, we know how to break them down now and it’s up to us to go and do it again. Quite quickly after it we did, obviously the goal stood and kind of after that we just controlled the game and we forced them into mistakes.
“Obviously there is a big crowd, a lot of expectations and they started getting frustrated and that’s exactly where we wanted them and then we just started playing our football, hurting them in ways we believed we could and we were clinical in front of goal, which made for a pleasing afternoon.”
Robertson revels in Liverpool Old Trafford revenge
Alexis Mac Allister, Andy Robertson and Ryan Gravenberch of Liverpool celebrates following the team’s victory in the Premier League match between Manchester United FC and Liverpool FC at Old Trafford on September 01, 2024 in Manchester, England.
Not that Liverpool ever need an extra reason to enjoy beating Man Utd, but Sunday’s victory will taste even sweeter for the Reds given their failures at Old Trafford last season.
Liverpool lost 4-3 after extra-time in the FA Cup in March, followed by a 2-2 draw in April that kick-started a run of just three wins in their final eight…
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