An injury-depleted backline of Jurgen Klopp’s side would make it more heartening for Manchester United to impose trouble on the hosts when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s table-toppers visit Anfield on Sunday for the high-billed top-flight clash.
Liverpool FC would be missing Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez for the Anfield showdown, with Joel Matip’s availability subject to a late call on the Cameroonian defender’s match fitness.
Manchester United’s in-form frontline of Bruno Fernandes, Marcus Rashford and Edinson Cavani are bound to cause mayhem when squaring up against the Merseysiders over the coming weekend, believes Aldridge, who added that the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold and Rhys Williams would be targeted by the Red Devils to play their long-ball game.
“I think it’ll be a pretty open game and they’ll sense our weaknesses in trying to hit long balls between young Rhys Williams or Nat Phillips and Trent Alexander-Arnold,” said Aldridge while speaking to the Liverpool Echo.
“That’s what teams do, they pinpoint that area because our full backs get forward and take up advanced positions, so then we struggle.
“We struggled against Villa with the goal, we struggled against West Brom at times down the channels.
“The left channel is not too bad, because Fabinho looks up and sees it but for the young lads – as well as they’re doing and they are doing superbly – it’s really hard.
“Teams have a lot of quality and players who can put the ball in difficult areas with people chasing them – the likes of which [Marcus] Rashford will do.”
Klopp’s men are due to face their arch-foes United a second time following their Premier League meeting as Monday’s FA Cup draw pitted the English heavyweights against each other in the fourth-round fixture list.
