United\u2019s victory ensured they did the league double over Liverpool for the first time since 2015-16 and secured Champions League football with three games to spare as boss Michael Carrick furthered his case for the long-term role.<\/p>\n
Alex Ferguson was unable to watch Sunday\u2019s match having felt unwell before kick-off and being taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
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\n Alex Ferguson was unable to watch Sunday\u2019s match PA<\/p>\n
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United fans chanted his name towards the end of a first half that their side began at breakneck pace.<\/p>\n
Cunha, back in the side after a hip complaint, saw an initial effort from a half-cleared corner blocked but managed to get another away, striking into the ground and off Alexis Mac Allister to spark bedlam in the sixth minute.<\/p>\n
Carrick\u2019s side kept up the pressure and Freddie Woodman got his fingertips to a 14th minute prod on goal by Sesko, but Liverpool\u2019s third-choice goalkeeper could not deny him for long.<\/p>\n
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\n Manchester United\u2019s Matheus Cunha (right) set the ball rolling. PA<\/p>\n
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United kept the move alive and Luke Shaw\u2019s cross was headed back across goal by Bruno Fernandes, with Woodman only able to push into the bundling striker.<\/p>\n
Sesko wheeled off in celebration and further cheers greeted the award of the goal following a lengthy VAR check into a potential handball by the Slovenia striker.<\/p>\n
Liverpool showed some fight, from Ibrahima Konate knocking Sesko into the advertising hoardings to Gakpo slamming narrowly wide, but Slot\u2019s side still looked disjointed.<\/p>\n
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\n Manchester United\u2019s Benjamin Sesko, right, doubled the lead. PA<\/p>\n
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Skipper Fernandes fired just wide as United pushed for another before a break that limping Sesko did not return from.<\/p>\n
Amad replaced him and saw a lax pass cut out by Szoboszlai just inside his own half inside two minutes of the restart, with the Liverpool midfielder confidently running at Harry Maguire before cutting away and scoring a low left-footed shot.<\/p>\n
The United defender headed narrowly wide as they sought to restore their two-goal cushion, while Bryan Mbeumo saw a superb flicked from Fernandes\u2019 pass hit the foot of a post before offside was called.<\/p>\n
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\n Liverpool\u2019s Dominik Szoboszlai, left, reduced the arrears. Martin Rickett \/ PA<\/p>\n
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Liverpool showed weakness but were handed a 56th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n
Mac Allister read normally dependable Lammens\u2019 woeful pass out from the back, with the midfielder playing for Szoboszlai to play a quick ball for Gakpo to score.<\/p>\n
Play swung from end to end as fans traded chants, some more unsavoury than others, with Lammens forced to clear off the line before Casemiro planted a free header from a free-kick straight at Woodman.<\/p>\n
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\n Liverpool\u2019s Cody Gakpo, centre, levelled. PA<\/p>\n
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The next goal felt like it would be decisive and arrived in the 77th minute in front of an elated Stretford End.<\/p>\n
Liverpool failed to effectively clear a cross and Mainoo ran onto the loose ball on the edge of the box, avoiding sliding Szoboszlai\u2019s challenge to slam into the bottom left-hand corner.<\/p>\n
Substitute Rio Ngumoha looked lively and whistled a shot narrowly wide, with Lammens dealing with a deflected cross as United held out for the win.<\/p>\n
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Earlier in the Premier League, Bournemouth boosted their European hopes with a thumping 3-0 win over woeful Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n
A calamitous own goal from former Cherries midfielder Jefferson Lerma and Junior Kroupi\u2019s 32nd-minute penalty set the in-form hosts on course to climb to sixth place in the table.<\/p>\n
Brazilian winger Rayan completed the scoring 13 minutes from time as Andoni Iraola\u2019s side stretched their remarkable unbeaten run to 15 top-flight games in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n