Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has turned up the heat on Arsenal and Manchester United in their battle for a top four finish. One of Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool are set to miss out on Champions League football next season, a hammer blow to any of those huge clubs.

Rodgers claimed: "I think there is probably a big pressure on Manchester United and Arsenal from where they've been probably over the last 15 to 20 years.

"Manchester United is a club that has been synonymous with that and probably through to at least the quarter-finals of the competition. Arsene Wenger's record of getting them qualified has been outstanding. That is what you are up against. But I think it tells you the competition in this country. It's quite exciting really that you are fighting until the end."