Szoboszlai’s average of 1.67 fouls per 90 minutes tells you all you need to know and it’s a real surprise he’s been priced as generously as this to sin just once.

Across his 17 league appearances this season, Szoboszlai has committed at least one foul in 15, only failing to do so against Fulham and against Arsenal when he played just 28 minutes off the bench. To put that into perspective, those 15 games include 4 other substitute appearances summing under 2 hours of game time in which he’s committed 5 fouls, including at least 1 in each.

Bruno Fernandes will be his likely counterpart which is also significant given the United skipper averages 1.28 fouls drawn per 90.

Although Salah has justifiably taken the headlines this season, Luis Diaz has quietly had an exceptional season and has demonstrated a clinical killer instinct we perhaps hadn’t seen in previous seasons.

He’s averaged 1.44 shots on target per 90 minutes in the league this season, although has seemingly taken this up a notch in recent times, testing the keeper 7 times across his last 2 matches and beating him on 3 occasions.

Man United are averaging comfortably over 4 shots on target conceded per game and having lost 5 of their last 6, conceding 2+ goals in each loss, Liverpool’s forwards will be licking their lips at the prospect of the chances which could await them.

As impressive as Liverpool have been, their defence hasn’t been impenetrable and Alisson has been far from left to his own devices.

The Liverpool keeper has been forced into making an average of 2.63 saves, preventing at least 2 attempts from finding the back of the net in 21 out of 27 clashes across all competitions, and 14 out of 19 league games to date.

Man United have averaged 4.53 shots on target per game, forcing at least 2 saves in 15 of their 19 league matches this season. Additionally, in heated fixtures like these between age-old rivals, it’s not uncommon to see form and sometimes tactics, thrown out the window. It wouldn’t be a huge surprise to see an open game in which both teams create multiple chances.

Lisandro Martinez has been a consistent contender in the fouls department, sinning at least once in 11 of his 16 league appearances.

There seems to be a correlation between the likelihood of him fouling, and the difficulty of the game. The 5 matches in which he avoided sinning came against Southampton, Brentford, West Ham, Leicester, and Nottingham Forest, meanwhile, he sinned once against both Liverpool and City, twice against Tottenham and Newcastle, and 3 times against Chelsea. Interestingly, he was also cautioned in 4 of those 5 games.

It’s not a stretch to suggest that a large portion of this comes from issues with temperament rather than skill, which could be problematic in a game as heated as this.

Mac Allister has been a regular in the fouls market for some time, averaging 2.2 per 90 minutes this season and once more representing strong value ahead of a contentious affair.

He’s sinned at least once in 14 of his 15 league starts this season, and at least twice in 8 of those games, despite only lasting the full 90 on 8 occasions to date. He’s slipped up at least twice in each of his last 4 league starts, being penalised a total of 13 times across the period.

Fernandes will be his likely counterpart on Sunday with the Portuguese international averaging 1.28 fouls drawn per 90

Salah has been in remarkable form this season, surely unrivalled by any other player across Europe. He’s scored 17 goals in his 18 league games, topping the Golden Boot race by some distance and will surely have his eyes set on extending that 3-goal gap to Haaland before the Norweigan returns to form.

He’s found the back of the net in 14 league games this season, including in 10 of his most recent 11 appearances for Liverpool.

Man United have conceded 2 or more goals in 5 of their last 6 league games and look incredibly vulnerable, owing to a combination of their initial setup and individual mistakes. Having already bagged against all 5 other teams constituting the ‘big 6’, Salah will come into this clash with confidence and most likely leave it having found a way onto the scoresheet.

No doubt, Liverpool have been proficient in winning corners but even they have only surpassed the 7 mark on 7 occasions. None of these came against top sides, in fact, 5 of them sit in the bottom 6 of the league and Brighton were their only opponents who rest in the top half.

They managed just 2 corners in the reverse fixture at Old Trafford, despite thrashing them 3-0, which implies that this selection by no means has to coincide with a subpar Liverpool performance.

United have averaged just 4.47 corners conceded per game this season although over 15% of these came in one match as Arsenal won a remarkable 13. Excluding this anomaly, their average falls even further to 4.00.

Liverpool have racked up 40 cards this season, averaging over 2 per game which bodes well given the intensities that this clash is expected to reach. It’s also worth mentioning that their average of 11.7 fouls per match ranks 7th in the league.

The Reds have had at least 2 players penalised in 4 of their last 5 league clashes, picking up 13 cautions in total over the period.

Man United’s opponents have averaged 2.37 yellow cards per game, meanwhile, Michael Oliver who has been handed refereeing responsibilities, has awarded an average of 4.35 cards per 90 this season.