Former Manchester United full-back and current pundit Gary Neville has claimed that the Old Trafford crowd will not be pleased with Jose Mourinho if he tried to stop Liverpool by applying negative tactics.

Jose Mourinho is famous for parking the bus against big oppositions but Neville has warned the United manager against using negative tactics at Old Trafford on Sunday.

Neville told Sky Sports: “If I remember rightly, in Jose’s first season it was a really bad game at Anfield on a Monday night. He went into the game with injuries and on the back of some bad results,

“There was a feeling that he couldn’t lose the game otherwise things would start to go wrong quickly, like it had done for David Moyes for example, so it was a really dour game.

“The game this year at Anfield, I’ve said it before, a Manchester United v Liverpool game can be a draw, there can be few shots on target because both teams are tactically aware of each other and they are focused and concentrating to win.

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“But it can never be boring and it can never lack the intent to win. The game at Anfield this season was unacceptable and bordered on games we’ve seen in recent weeks. Both teams towards the end accepted that a point was the right result, Liverpool stepped off the gas a little bit and United were bang average.

“It cannot be like that. It’s got to be better. Jose Mourinho received a lot of criticism after that game, and rightly so, and to be fair, in the big games since, he has actually changed his formation and tactics to be more attacking.”

Jose Mourinho used utterly defensive plans to stop Liverpool at Anfield last year and that performance drew a lot of criticism from fans and pundits who blamed Jose Mourinho for being anti-football.

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