Liverpool legend Graeme Souness doesn't believe Manchester United's performance against Liverpool was as positive as first thought.
The Sky Sports pundit has admitted to being 'confused' as to why the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford has been met with so much positivity.
Marcus Rashford put United 1-0 up in the first half before substitute Adam Lallana rescued a point for the Reds late on. Souness told Virgin Media Sport that statistics from the game suggest the assured reaction to the performance from the United camp may have been misplaced.
"You are at home and have 32 per-cent possession of the ball - is that saying you had a really good day?" he questioned. "They were up against a very good team, but United are where they are at this moment in time. They are not anywhere near where they have been at that club.
"What they did to Liverpool in the first hour of the game was work their socks off and stopped them playing, stopped the two full-backs getting involved, but I was at the game and I said they wouldn't be able to do that for 90 minutes and they couldn't.
"In the second half, Liverpool took command of the game and dominated, so they have not come up with a blueprint to stop Liverpool. Man United are getting good reviews for it and I'm not sure why.
"They can only play like that against two teams in England at Old Trafford, which is Manchester City and Liverpool, because they are so far ahead of everyone else. I think United being United and their history have to open up and have a real go at teams.
"They got a goal that shouldn't have stood because it was a blatant foul on (Divock) Origi, but it didn't overly worry me from a Liverpool perspective.”
The Scot admitted that he wants to be talking about United in a good light but is struggling to find the angle to start from.
He explained: "Believe it or not, I'm wanting to say nice things (about United), but there is a lack of goals, a lack of creativity in their team and we are not quite sure what their strongest back four is.”
"Their goalkeeper is not at his best right, so they are going to continue to have some good results and some indifferent results."