Liverpool vs Man United

5 January 2025 · Premier League · 2024/25 · Referee Michael Oliver

Full time 2 – 2

Half-time: 0–0

Cody Gakpo 59’
Mohamed Salah 70’ (pen)

Lisandro Martínez 52’
Amad Diallo Traore 80’

Match summary

Liverpool and Man United drew 2-2. It was goalless at half-time.

Lisandro Martínez put Man United ahead in the 52nd minute, set up by Bruno Fernandes, Cody Gakpo equalised in the 59th minute, set up by Alexis Mac Allister, Mohamed Salah put Liverpool in front from the penalty spot in the 70th minute, and Amad Diallo Traore equalised in the 80th minute.

Liverpool had the better of the chances, with 2.86 expected goals (xG) from 19 shots to Man United's 1.69 from 13.

Match stats

19 Shots 13

6 Shots on Target 4

6 Corners 9

2 Yellow Cards 4

0 Red Cards 0

2.86 xG 1.67

2.10 Non-penalty xG 1.67

7 Deep Completions 7

Key events

Liverpool Man United

Kick-off

Half-time0-0

52’

Lisandro Martínez
Assist: Bruno Fernandes

0-1

Cody Gakpo
Assist: Alexis Mac Allister

1-1

59’

Mohamed Salah
Penalty

2-1

70’

80’

Amad Diallo Traore

2-2

Full-time2-2

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Liverpool

Trent Alexander-Arnold
Darwin Núñez

Man United

Matthijs de Ligt
Harry Maguire
Diogo Dalot
Amad Diallo Traore

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Liverpool 2.86 xGMan United 1.69 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Man United attacking Liverpool attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alisson	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Trent Alexander-Arnold	DEF	88			1	0.05	0.10	1
Ibrahima Konaté	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Virgil van Dijk	DEF	90			2	0.40	0.01	1
Andrew Robertson	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.09	2
Alexis Mac Allister	MID	90		1	4	0.45	0.43	2
Ryan Gravenberch	MID	90			2	0.12	0.46	2
Mohamed Salah	MID	90	1		4	1.01	0.40	2
Curtis Jones	MID	63			0	0.00	0.00	0
Cody Gakpo	MID	88	1		2	0.49	0.00	0
Luis Díaz	FWD	62			1	0.10	0.11	1
Darwin Núñez	Sub	28			0	0.00	0.00	0
Diogo Jota	Sub	27			2	0.17	0.00	0
Harvey Elliott	Sub	2			0	0.00	0.05	1
Conor Bradley	Sub	2			1	0.07	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
André Onana	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Lisandro Martínez	DEF	90	1		1	0.12	0.28	1
Harry Maguire	DEF	90			1	0.47	0.01	1
Matthijs de Ligt	DEF	85			1	0.06	0.00	0
Noussair Mazraoui	MID	90			1	0.05	0.00	0
Diogo Dalot	MID	90			2	0.03	0.00	0
Manuel Ugarte	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Kobbie Mainoo	MID	74			1	0.06	0.00	0
Bruno Fernandes	MID	90		1	2	0.07	0.25	4
Amad Diallo Traore	MID	90	1		2	0.50	0.00	0
Rasmus Højlund	FWD	89			1	0.28	0.00	0
Alejandro Garnacho	Sub	16			1	0.05	0.03	1
Leny Yoro	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0
Joshua Zirkzee	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.47	1

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Liverpool win 70% Avg odds 1.36

Draw 18% Avg odds 5.42

Man United win 12% Avg odds 7.90

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Liverpool D D W W W

Man United L W L L L

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Man United 0-3 Liverpool, 01 Sep 24 Next meeting: Liverpool 1-2 Man United, 19 Oct 25 All Liverpool vs Man United meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.