It will feel like a lifetime ago since Manchester United travelled to Anfield and returned with a cloud hanging above them. Most fans, then, would have been grateful at the timing of the international break, giving them an opportunity to lick their wounds and prepare themselves for the final push of the season.
No one should be more relieved about the break from club action, and the potential it has to reinvigorate the team, than the club itself. The infamous 7-0 defeat at old rivals Liverpool was the sort of result that will be remembered long after the campaign finishes, but it’s one that the United's players can’t afford to dwell on.
It has the power to completely derail a season that looked promising not too long ago, or to inspire the team to never have a repeat performance of that humiliation.
