Time to switch focus to Swansea, where it looks wet and wild. A freezing December afternoon, and time for Spurs to show they can charge up the table? Perhaps.

You woke up at half one Daniel?

Injured Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge:, external "Absolutely gutted for everyone. Woke up and watched the game and it hurts. I'm optimistic though and I hope everyone else feels the same. Just know I'm working hard to ensure I'm back healthy. I miss everything about the game. I can't wait to help us be successful."

Former Wales international John Hartson
BBC Radio 5 live at the Liberty Stadium

"There are some players who are brilliant in training but don't perform on the pitch. Moussa Dembele can drift past players, he can strike it with either foot, he's strong, but you get maybe one good game in three out of him. Tottenham signed Dembele on the back of his wonderful form at Fulham, but he hasn't quite taken it on at Spurs, and he is out of the picture at the minute."

Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata, speaking to BBC Sport: "No game against Liverpool is easy but it was massive for us today. We knew it was massive for our supporters - we pressed hard and scored goals so we did well. We are scoring a lot and not conceding and we just need to keep going and carry on. In the second half, we played really well and it is a good confidence boost for December. It's a busy month so we have to keep focused, we don't have much time to enjoy the wins."

Paul, Manchester: If I was a team playing Manchester United I would be worried. How is it that a team can play so badly, have such a shoddy defence but still manage to win? As an opposition player I would be thinking, it doesn't matter what we do they're still going to win!

Alastair, Wakefield: How have the better team lost? Liverpool may have had composure on the ball and moved it well, but United took their chances so they clearly were the better team and the score shows that.

Jack M, Manchester: Yes Liverpool created chances but United equally could have had six. Your goalkeeper is there to do a job and David De Gea did his brilliantly today but so did the forwards. More credit please!

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers tells BBC Sport he "does not feel any additional pressure" despite his side's poor run of form.

"We had huge changes in the summer and that has taken time for us to find our way," says Rodgers.

"The most important thing for me today was we looked like scoring. Over the course of the season we haven't been creative enough. Raheem Sterling was outstanding, his movement was great, he was just unfortunate not to get a goal.

"I didn't think it was a 3-0 game. I thought we were the better team in the first half but we gave away disappointing goals today. I think it tells you everything that their goalkeeper was man of the match. Our creativity was good today, probably the best all season."

Swansea: Tremmel, Rangel, Bartley, Williams, Taylor, Britton, Ki, Routledge, Sigurdsson, Montero, Bony. Subs: Amat, Shelvey, Emnes, Dyer, Cornell, Gomis, Richards.

Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Walker, Fazio, Vertonghen, Davies, Mason, Bentaleb, Lamela, Kane, Eriksen, Soldado. Subs: Rose, Chiriches, Vorm, Townsend, Dembele, Chadli, Stambouli.

Referee: Robert Madley (West Yorkshire)

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Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal, speaking to BBC Sport: "I'm proud we have a clean sheet but that is also because David De Gea has superb reactions. We scored fantastic goals - one-touch - and I'm very pleased with that.

"The last training session gave me a new injury with Marcos Rojo and it was unfortunate to change my line-up again. We gave unnecessary balls away today, that's not good. I will ask the players tomorrow why. I'm very happy but the next match at Aston Villa is important. We have had difficulty in away matches."

Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown
Football Focus

"When Mauricio Pochettino came in and named Younes Kaboul as captain, I think that put Jan Vertonghen's nose out of joint. Kaboul was somebody he was tussling for a place with, and there has been an inconsistency in his play since then. I would have gone with Vertonghen as captain personally.

"Harry Kane has been excellent for Tottenham too. He is the fan on the pitch, the one who plays with real heart - you need those players."

John Hartson
BBC Radio 5 live at the Liberty Stadium

"Swansea are as strong as they can be. They are without their first choice goalkeeper but Gerhard Tremmel has come in and he played a few games last season. Neil Taylor is back as well, but Swansea conceded three at West Ham last week - they will have to perform far better. They have pace out wide with Jefferson Montero and Wayne Routledge, the clever passing and goalscoring threat of Gylfi Sigurdsson in midfield, and he links up really well with Wilfried Bony."

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Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal on Sky Sports: "I think we have scored wonderful goals. We also kept the shape very good. In spite of the goals we gave a lot of chances away. That was every time we gave unnecessary passes away and that is how we have to improve.

You can always say that some players are the most influential in a game and of course David De Gea has a big influence. He did it very well but I can mention others who were also very good and had a big influence.

"You can single out as many players as you want. Yes, Michael Carrick did well in defence. I said it was an all-English defence today but then Jonny Evans corrected me and told me his is from Northern Ireland. So a British defence."

Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown
Football Focus

"Sometimes statistics can cloud things but that's not true of Gylfi Sigurdsson. They tell me at Reading that he is the best ever player to come out of there, and that he is an intelligent guy as well - he did his A-levels while he was there.

"For me, Tottenham missed a trick in letting Sigurdsson go. It's great to see him developing, and you wonder if Swansea are going to struggle to hold on to him again if he keeps on rising like this."

Former Manchester United defender Phil Neville
Football Focus

"It's a great partnership between Gylfi Sigurdsson and Wilfried Bony. Swansea have scored 20 goals this season and they have been involved in most of them. Swansea have quality, particularly in the final third. They struggle away from home but they can be formidable when they're at home."

More reaction to come from Old Trafford, but our second game of the day is about to start in Wales. Will Gylfi Sigurdsson and Wilfried Bony be the key duo?

Chris Hussey: That's six on the bounce for Manchester United now. Imagine what'll happen when we play well?!

Some Body: Edit out the goals and play it back and anyone would think the winners had to be Liverpool. Tactics OK, finishing not.

Joel Salmon: Plaudits should go to Antonio Valencia. Hasn't played well for two years but ripped Liverpool apart today. And strong defensively.

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Louis van Gaal praises his side for scoring 'wonderful goals' but is also unhappy about his side's poor passing again.

Former Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina,, external now at Bayern Munich: "Liverpool would not have lost the game if not for David De Gea. Four one-on-one saves! Harsh result though. Very unfair I'd say."

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, speaking to Sky Sports: "I thought we had done enough to win the game, it epitomised our season really. We created so many chances today and David De Gea was man of the match. He's had four or five games like that this season. David's a top class goalkeeper and his ability to make saves is outstanding but his distribution is also excellent, he knows when to go short and when to go long.

"We also made defensive mistakes and that cost us today. We've just got to keep working, we know what the solutions are and hopefully the confidence will return. We came here last season and it was the reverse scoreline, today we were the better side in the first half but you can't concede the goals we did. We nearly went in front and they went up the other end and scored because we lost our runner from the midfield area.

"Today, we created opportunities which we haven't been doing. I'll keep searching for the solutions. It's been difficult this year but that's the way it works. It's clear we haven't scored or created enough goals."

Is it acceptable for a manager to keep saying that he knows what the problems are and they are the same problems he's had all season? Or does he need to have solutions?