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Topics: Football, Liverpool, Manchester United, Premier League, Cristiano Ronaldo, Roy Keane, Jamie Carragher
Ben McCrum
Topics: Football, Liverpool, Manchester United, Premier League, Cristiano Ronaldo, Roy Keane, Jamie Carragher
The shirts of two Manchester United legends are proudly displayed inside Anfield despite Liverpool's fierce rivalry with the club.
On Sunday, one of the most highly-anticipated matches of the Premier League season takes place as Liverpool welcome historic rivals Manchester United to Anfield.
Heading into the match, Liverpool boss Arne Slot will be hoping to put an end to their three game losing streak while United manager Ruben Amorim will know that a win would significantly reduce the questions regarding his future at the club.
For a game with such high stakes, players from both sides will no doubt be feeling the pressure to make a statement performance at Anfield on Sunday.
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And United players will no doubt be happy to see that, despite Liverpool's home ground being a hostile environment for them, they can take inspiration from the shirts of two club legends which are displayed in Anfield's away dressing room.
Across the decades long rivalry with Liverpool, some of United's best-ever players have travelled to Anfield for a fiery clash with the Reds.
Among them, are Roy Keane and Cristiano Ronaldo, who both have their shirts hanging from the walls of the Anfield away changing room alongside the shirts of several other footballing greats.
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The reason for this is because Liverpool, while the home changing room displays the shirts of the current first team, the away changing room shows off the shirts of some of the biggest opposition names to play at Anfield.
In the case of Keane and Ronaldo, they earned their spot in the away changing room after Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher picked them as two of the greatest players he has ever faced.
Other big names that can be seen in the changing room are Lionel Messi, Thierry Henry, Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro and several others.
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Carragher's selection of Ronaldo may come as a surprise to some given the fact he has often criticised the Portuguese striker, claiming that he is nowhere near the level of long-term rival Messi.
However, while speaking to Football365 last year, he discussed just how great the striker was: "Ronaldo became a great player at United.
“In his last two years he was the main man. But when he initially came in, United had so many great players that he wasn’t going to be one you built a team talk around. He never really gave us too many problems.
“It always fascinates me with Ronaldo – I would describe him as one of the greatest goalscorers of all time, but normally when other players fall into that category they’re goalscorers their whole life, from the first time they kick a ball.
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"Ronaldo wasn’t. He almost made himself a goalscorer. That’s down to his work ethic and his mental strength. That, for me, has always been his biggest quality."