In the past four seasons, Liverpool have played seven games under three managers against Manchester United in the league. Four have been Liverpool victories, two have been won by United, and one has been a draw. And with match number eight coming up on the weekend, it seemed like a good time to look back at some of the statistics beyond the final score from the seven previous games to see if any kind of pattern or omen for Saturday's match appears.

Manchester United vs Liverpool
11 February 2012
12.45 GMT
Old Trafford

History:
Total: 184
Liverpool Wins: 62
Manchester United Wins: 71
Draws: 51

Last Premier League Meeting: 15 October 2011 – Liverpool 1-1 Manchester United (Gerrard)

Form:
Liverpool: While the Reds have been unstoppable in the cups, their league form has been questionable.

With the transfer window about to open plenty of gossip will be doing the rounds. As ever I will only post news that appears in other media.
The biggest news is of course Noh Alam Shah becoming a free agent after leaving Arema IPL. Tampines Rovers have said they will take him back in the blink of an eye; it's no secret NAS and the chairman of the Stags are very close.

Well, what a difference a day makes.

Emotionally we've gone from disappointed and disillusioned to euphoric over the result of one game. Beating Blackburn 7-1 was the sort of result we needed to awaken our supporters.

Arsenal played the sort of football that we all love to watch and for once the end result substantiated the level of our overall performance.

Monsef Zerka may be the closest the New England Revolution has come to replacing the consistency of Steve Ralston on the wings, but the Moroccan won't be returning to the team in 2012. New England Soccer Today has learned the 30-year-old winger is not in the team's plans this season.

Monsef Zerka tallied two goals and an assist in seven games for the Revs in 2011.

In all the hoopla surrounding the Seattle Sounders offseason moves, there has been one player that seems to have flown under the radar more than any other: Servando Carrasco. During the midfielder's rookie season, he became better known for the person he was dating than anything he did on the field.

Former Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann believes winning the Carling Cup would represent a major step forward for the club and put the Reds "back on the map".
Kenny Dalglish's team takes a 1-0 lead into Wednesday's semi-final second leg at Anfield against Manchester City, another of the ex-Germany international's sides.

Granada have hired former Atletico Madrid coach Abel Resino to replace the sacked Fabriciano Gonzalez and try to save the La Liga strugglers from making an immediate return to the second division.

"Granada CF announces the hiring of Abel Resino as the red and whites' new coach until next June 30," the club said in a statement on their website.

Adin Brown, who starred in goal for the Revolution from 2002-04, is without a team heading into the 2012 season.(Photo by Art Donahue/artdonahue.com)

"The Bear" and "Man Mountain" are just a couple of the nicknames former New England Revolution goalkeeper Adin Brown earned due to his imposing presence in goal.

Swansea 3 (Sinclair pen 16, Dyer 57, Graham 70) Arsenal 2 (Van Persie 5, Walcott 69)
(Premiership)

Two weeks ago, the Arsenal fanbase was pretty content. A win over QPR had lifted us back amongst the top four at the turn of the year, a remarkable turnaround given the position we were in after seven games.

Marco Terminesi had a goal and an assist for his first points of the season, and Nick Perera and Ian Bennett also added three points apiece Friday night as the Milwaukee Wave bounced back from their first loss by beating the Missouri Comets 11-7 in a Major Indoor Soccer League match watched by 3,549 at U.

For transitional fossil Kenny Dalglish, it is surely time to evolve.
Last nights racist abuse of Tom Adeyemi is purely the fault of the Liverpool Football Club.
Dalglish and his players are heroes to some very very stupid people.
These neuronically moronic pick up mass hysterias that allow them to shroud their inate fear and weaknesses with the misplaced sense of hyper-power that is racism.

Jamie Redknapp has called on some of Liverpool's goal-shy players to step up and fill the void left by Luis Suarez.
The Uruguayan - Liverpool's top scorer this season with eight goals - will miss the club's next seven games after they chose not to appeal against his suspension for racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra.

Ooh, that feels better doesn't it? After seven games of drawing blanks it took a mere 5 minutes for Tuds to latch onto a throughball from Reidy and score. Before half time it was 2-0 courtesy of another lovely finish, this time courtesy of Garath McCleary. An unsaveable penalty kept the nerves jangling (as did some fragile looking defending) but t'was Tudgay again who restored our two goal cushion with a delicious headed goal [.

Jürgen Klinsmann trying too hard to Europeanize U.S. team - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Thursday was the five-month anniversary of Jürgen Klinsmann's appointment as head coach of the United States men's national team. In that short time, he has presided over seven games and has a paltry 2-1-4 record.

IT'S A BOXING DAY WRAP!

Nothing like receiving a brand new Cabbage Patch doll under your tree, eh Ashley Cole?! Jokes aside (or not, depending on who you support!), Boxing Day might as well have named itself 'The Day Of Draws' because five out of seven games ended in dead heat.

Newcastle got their first win in seven games this afternoon at the Reebok Stadium, when goals from Ben Arfa and Demba Ba (who else?) within a two minute spell in the second half, gave Newcastle all 3 points. And with Man City, Chelsea and Liverpool all drawing their games today, Newcastle have gained two points on those three teams [.

The Milwaukee Wave are the Major Indoor Soccer League's lone unbeaten team and have the league's top offense.

And they're about to get even better.

Forward Marco Terminesi, the team's leading scorer last season, was cleared to play and added to the active roster Wednesday. The 27-year-old, who finished second in the MISL with 25 goals and 72 points in the 2010-11 season, missed Milwaukee's first seven games with an undisclosed injury.

An anemic New England Revolution offense started to turn around towards the end of the 2011 season thanks to some late additions, but new head coach Jay Heaps might not get the chance to build upon that improvement in 2012.

Jay Heaps may have to replace Rajko Lekic and other key players from the 2011 squad.

So Luis Suarez is working himself into a nice little pattern of nabbing ginormous suspensions in the meaty part of the domestic season. Before his move to Liverpool last year, he picked up seven games for his primal attempts at a mid-game snack while playing for Ajax. This year, it's eight games to sit in the corner and think about what he did.

Leading up to the Clasico this past weekend between Real Madrid and Barcelona, Paul Kennedy of Soccer America reported on what Jose Mourinho left his players with as their 10 secrets of success heading into this massive rivalry of world football super powers.
What will it take for Real Madrid to beat Barcelona in their much-awaited Clasico on Saturday at the Bernabeu Stadium?

It seems like ages since I tickled the malnourished belly of the SPL with a wildly inaccurate prediction post.
I think the last time I Nostradamus-ed the weekend action Rangers had won the title and Motherwell were about to take the Champion's League by storm.
What a difference an eight point swing makes.

A day after the Revolution declined the options on seven players, the team opened its wallet for long-tenured goalkeeper Matt Reis by signing him to deal that will keep in Foxboro for his 10th consecutive season. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, per MLS policy.

In 2011, Reis made 27 starts, recorded five shutouts and posted a 1.

Add Milton Caraglio, Rajko Lekic, Monsef Zerka and Franco Coria to the long list of members of the 2011 New England Revolution who may not be back next year. According to a tweet from Boston Herald reporter Kyle McCarthy, the Revs declined an option to purchase Caraglio and contract options on Lekic and Zerka.

With the 2011 Nike International Friendlies about to kick off in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., the U.S. opens play against a rather familiar opponent in France.
The U.S. U-17s are playing this tournament coming off a three-week trip to Spain and France in October, during which they had seven games, including one against France.

Now Craig Foster and the like can ooze over Harry's nice touch, his nice pass - so can I - but come on Australia - how many has there been?
Is the Emperor wearing any clothes?
We all want Harry to do Harry stuff - but Carlos is outperforming him. If you want skill, touch and goals look to Carlos Hernandez.

The past few months have been a roller-coaster for Arsenal fans. After only seven games of the current campaign they had notched a mere two wins and had been on the back of some truly embarrassing results. When you look at the league table and see Arsenal lurking outside the relegation places it is obvious something is wrong and of course the fans look for someone to blame.

The Philadelphia Union picked up midfielder Nizar Khalfan in the MLS Waiver Draft after Vancouver Whitecaps FC waived him earlier today.

The Union have waived goalkeeper Thorne Holder and defender Juan Diego Gonzalez.

A native of Tanzania, Khalfan played in 22 Major League Soccer regular season matches with Vancouver, scoring one goal and four assists.

I was watching SkySports' Soccer Saturday and when they talked ahead of the game yesterday, Paul Merson said he "worried for Chelsea" and "they are in a battle to finish in the top four this season". Of course his comments at the time had me ranting at the telly claiming that Merse' didn't know what he was talking about.

In a couple of hours from now Chelsea take on Liverpool at Stamford Bridge in a game we simply cannot afford to lose or even drop points!. With City, United and the Arsenal all winning yesterday, Spurs playing tomorrow and with a game in hand afterwards, Chelsea need to pick up an all important three points to kick start a massive seven games coming up.

Well it sounds like you can rule another team out of the running for Omar Bravo's services during the MLS offseason. Previously Atlas had ruled it out due to lack of funds. Although Bravo moving there was unlikely due to his history with their main rival Chivas. But today from ESPN Deportes comes word that Estudiantes Tecos is now out of the running as well.

Chelsea's André Villas-Boas says Fernando Torres still worth £50m

• Villas-Boas insists Torres is performing well for Chelsea • 'He's one of our best suppliers of assists,' says manager André Villas-Boas has insisted that Fernando Torres has been worth the British-record £50m fee paid to Liverpool to secure his services last January and believes he can still rediscover the goalscoring form of his early days in the Premier League.

U.S. Men's National Soccer Team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann finally opted to start a formation with two strikers in Slovenia on Tuesday and it paid off with the most impressive offensive performance seen in Klinsmann's tenure.

Clint Dempsey tied Joe-Max Moore's mark of 24 U.S. goals and moved into 4th on the all-time list.

Blackpool boss Ian Holloway believes a new role behind the strikers is bringing out the best of loanee Jonjo Shelvey.
The Liverpool midfielder is on loan with the Seasiders until the end of December and has so far netted five goals in seven games.
This included a hat-trick against Leeds United while playing in a more advanced role.

By Tony Edwards - San Jose, CA (Nov 10, 2011) US Soccer Players -- In this edition, Tony asks the obvious question about the Red Bulls, looks at the MLS Cup coaching match-up, and has a bracket prediction for the knockout stage of the CONCACAF Champions League. What international calendar for 2011 were the Red Bulls looking at?

Ledley King has been speaking to the press this week about his own future and the expectations of his club for the 2011-12 season. King hopes that it will be Spurs that mount the biggest threat to the Manchester sides this campaign.

"I hope we can become the biggest challenger to the Manchester teams," King said in the Evening Standard.

Sunday's 3-1 victory over QPR at White Hart Lane could kick start a bright future for Tottenham Hotspur. With the form and style of a top team, Spurs absolutely dominated the first 45 minutes and should have gone in at the break with at least double the two goals scored by Gareth Bale and Rafael Van der Vaart.

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish has admitted he was encouraged by his side's team spirit as they disposed of West Brom 2-0 to extend their unbeaten run to seven games.
Dalglish spent the summer remoulding the core of his side, making seven signings as he attempts to put together a team capable of challenging for qualification to the Champions League.

This season's Serie A campaign has saw a number of different teams fighting for dominance, as perennial challengers Inter and Milan have started slowly. Juventus sit on top of the pile after seven games, but their newfound confidence will be tested with tricky away fixtures in Milan and Naples.

Not surprised to see the announcement that New England Revolution have fired head coach Steve Nicol. At the press conference after the Columbus game, Nicol had the look of a coach who knew his time was up.

Nicol leaves the Revolution after 10 seasons, a league record for tenure with a single club.