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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Manchester United legend, Mark Hughes, has predicted that his former club will knock Liverpool out of the FA Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n

An in-form Red Devils face Jurgen Klopp\u2019s men at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup.<\/p>\n

While United have climbed to the top of the Premier League table in recent weeks, Liverpool\u2019s title defence suffered another blow on Thursday evening as they were beaten at home by Burnley.<\/p>\n

Liverpool are currently six points behind Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s men in the Premier League race and Hughes believes they will face more disappointment this weekend.<\/p>\n

When asked if he believes it will be United fans celebrating come Sunday evening, Hughes told talkSPORT: \u201cI think it will be. They\u2019re just in a better run of form, their confidence is higher than Liverpool\u2019s is at the moment and I just sense that they\u2019re a team going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you talk about confidence, clearly a number of the elements within Liverpool\u2019s team are not functioning.<\/p>\n

Hughes added: \u201cYou\u2019re talking about five or six positions there that aren\u2019t at the best of their ability in terms of form. When that happens, it doesn\u2019t matter if you are Liverpool or anybody else, it\u2019s going to affect your ability to win games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve just got to get more confidence, and the problem for Liverpool this weekend is they\u2019re going up against a United side that looks like they\u2019re building confidence, while Liverpool look low on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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