Mourinho must stop Salah to keep Liverpool at bay

Joined manager Jose Mourinho has the extreme undertaking of keeping Liverpool's Mohamed Salah tranquil as Jurgen Klopp's performers move into town at the end of the week - with second place in the Premier League the prize on offer. 

With Pep Guardiola's Manchester City basically guaranteed of the title, northwest adversaries United and Liverpool - the two best clubs in the English amusement - are left battling for the pieces. 

Joined's noteworthy fightback from 2-0 down on Monday to beat Crystal Palace 3-2 kept up their slim two-point lead over Liverpool in the fight for the sprinters up spot behind runaway pioneers City. 

Nemanja Matic rescued Mourinho's men with a staggering stoppage-time strike in London yet another three focuses papered over the breaks in the most recent in a progression of unconvincing exhibitions from United. 

"We must be straightforward, we need to play better," Matic conceded once the rapture of his initially United objective faded away. 

"We need to accomplish increasingly on the off chance that we need to win as Liverpool is a group with awesome quality." 

The onus will be on Mourinho to take the diversion to the guests at Old Trafford on Saturday however the Portuguese director, censured for keeping his variety of aggressors immovably on the rope, is probably not going to chance pulling out all the stops. 

Liverpool had scored 20 objectives in their past seven diversions previously a much-changed side drew 0-0 with Porto in midweek, an outcome that fixed a place in the Champions League quarter-finals without precedent for a long time. 

With January marking Virgil van Dijk settling in well at the back and Loris Karius inspiring in objective, the pieces are becoming all-good for Klopp's group, who have lost only once in 20 Premier League diversions. 

In any case, it is their advances, drove by the irrepressible Salah nearby Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane, who have scored a consolidated 68 objectives this season, will give Mourinho restless evenings. 

There was an unmistakable sensation around Anfield on Tuesday that Liverpool minds were at that point concentrated on United, with the free-scoring front three all refreshed at various spells of the amusement. 

- United v Liverpool 'uncommon' - 

The match against Liverpool is the first of three recreations in eight days for United at Old Trafford that will characterize their season. 

Sevilla visit in the last-16 of the Champions League on Tuesday with the tie carefully adjusted at 0-0 after the primary leg, before in-frame Brighton travel north for a FA Cup quarter-last. 

Mourinho yielded as of late "to play Liverpool has an uncommon signifying" for United, so saving his stars' energies for midweek is impossible. 

In any case, he has a significant choice to make about whether to persevere with Alexis Sanchez on the left half of United's assault, with any semblance of Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford in his arsenal. 

The Chilean has scored only once since moving from Arsenal in January. 

Somewhere else, Chelsea need to bob once again from four thrashings in five association diversions on the off chance that they are to hold any reasonable any desire for a main four complete when they have battling Palace and Tottenham must lift themselves up subsequent to being dumped out of the Champions League by Juventus at Bournemouth. 

An intensely pivoted City side were likewise beaten for simply the fourth time this season by Basel in Europe in midweek, yet at the same time advanced to the quarter-finals and can move to inside three wins of numerically fixing the title when they visit Stoke on Monday. 

Arms stockpile, trailing fourth-set Spurs by 13 focuses, hope to have blown their desires of fitting the bill for next season's Champions League yet Arsene Wenger will be edgy to switch a disturbing droop when Watford visit the Emirates. 

Installations (1500 GMT unless expressed) 

Saturday 

Manchester United v Liverpool (1230 GMT), Newcastle v Southampton, West Brom v Leicester, West Ham v Burnley, Everton v Brighton, Huddersfield v Swansea, Chelsea v Crystal Palace (1730 GMT) 

Sunday 

Stockpile v Watford (1330 GMT), Bournemouth v Tottenham (1600 GMT) 

Monday 

Stir v Manchester City (2000 GMT)