Man Utd Can Derail Liverpool Bid – Defeat for Reds Unthinkable – Stan Collymore

Since Sir Alex Ferguson continued his first title at Old Trafford, the clashes between Manchester United and Liverpool have been as difficult as today.

The result of this game will have serious consequences.

In the short, medium and long term, it could be decisive for both clubs.

If Liverpool hopes to win, he could then lead them to the Premier League title.

I do not say that, because I would always be in favor of Manchester City, but the confidence they would take would certainly propel them in the right direction.

And if they finally ended up waiting, I could see my old club build a new long-term boom and say, "We're back here and we will not let the same thing happen like last time."

If United wins, they will hammer Liverpool's title hopes. It would be very, very difficult – whatever they may say in public – for Jurgen Klopp's men to mentally rebound with so few games to play.

The weight of expectation is already against them given the many slippages of securities in recent years.

And they simply do not have the comfort that United, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, even Leicester and Blackburn have, to know which feeling feels like raising the Premier League trophy.

I would like to say that it would not be possible for Liverpool to win the championship if United beat them today, but I really would not imagine their chances.

For United, it would be a triple blow because it would probably Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to the position of manager.

This would give players the badurance of qualifying for the Champions League by placing in the top four.

And that would give the whole club the conviction that in record time, they can move from the desperation of Jose Mourinho's period to a real claim next season.

In a nutshell, it would speed up the healing process and bring them back to rude health.

They would again be in the running for the major trophies over the next two or three years and would not have to rely on players committed for crazy sums – or giving them new great offers – to remind the rest of the world. football world that they are always a force.

I am still confident that Pep Guardiola's City will win the title again this season, followed by Liverpool in second place, and I have been saying this since the beginning of the campaign.

City just looks in a better place with regards to the way they play and their body language compared to Klopp's men.

If you ask someone who has played professional football and who has run after silverware at this point in the season, he will tell you how difficult it is.

You face fatigue, all sorts of problems and the last seven or eight games of the campaign look like a purgatory.

You simply do not have that mental or physical freshness. The team that deals with these challenges is the one that shines best.

On a season of 38 games, things could even be ruined, but in football, there are moments that put pressure.

David Beckham's goal from the center line against Wimbledon in 1996 is an example …

I mean, if he did not score like that with a Manchester United jersey, 21, would he have had all the success he had?

We will never know, of course. But what we do know is that it shot him a shot – everyone started to recognize him, he married a Spice Girl who nicknamed him Goldenballs and the rest belongs to the history.

As in the movie Sliding Doors, when taking or missing a tube train completely transforms lives, just one moment can decide everything.

And for United and Liverpool, that moment has arrived.