Manchester United give major Marcus Rashford update in team news for Liverpool

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Marcus Rashford is a doubt for Manchester United's Premier League fixture at Liverpool on Sunday.

Rashford was omitted from four successive matchday squads by head coach Ruben Amorim but was recalled for the defeat to Newcastle on Monday night.

The 27-year-old was an unused substitute and Amorim revealed Rashford has not trained this week due to illness.

"It’s the same situation," Amorim replied when asked about Rashford, who has outlined his desire to leave the club. "At the moment, he’s ill, he’s not training so we'll see in the future but he's like a normal player, then I make a selection so it's the same.

"I think he's going to be out this week, he's not training. We'll see but I think this week he's out."

United are winless in nine matches and nine years at Anfield, their longest stretch since they first played at the ground in 1895. They have lost five and drawn four at Liverpool during that sequence, scoring one goal and conceding 18.

Premier League leaders Liverpool are in ominous form and have only lost one of their 18 league fixtures this term. However, Amorim has extracted belief from a rare six-day gap between matches for United.

"We have more time to train, two days in a row, to train with the team. I think that can help us given the environment, is a difficult moment because we are losing too many matches. We are going to face the best team this year.

"With training, we feel more the team, we prepare more the team and we want to improve the performance compared to the last game.

"In football, one game anything can happen. If you talk about the season then almost every time the best win, in the moment they are better than us but we can win any game.

"We have to focus not on the context but on the performance, what we have to do, simple things. We need to improve the simple things for these kind of games and we have the responsibility to win the game."

"Everything," Amorim replied when asked what United had focused on. "The small things, the transitions, you can see the lack of possession in the last game in the first half. The control of the game, everybody was so anxious, so nervous.

"The crosses is really important, set pieces. It’s hard to say one thing, we work on a lot of things. The possession, the way we control the tempo of the game, the understanding where you should play was the main focus this week."

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