Cast your minds back a little over five years. At about 13:33 on a Sunday lunchtime in early September 2013, Daniel Sturridge did this.

We might have suspected how bad David Moyes’ tenure at United was going to be, but at that point it was too soon to say for sure. Liverpool won the return fixture 3-0 the following March, but they’ve won none of the eight league meetings since. Bear in mind that between the start of 2014/15 and today, the sides have almost identical records across the 168 league matches which they’ve played.

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