Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer expects the atmosphere for their clash with Liverpool to be white hot.

Solskjaer acknowledges that Old Trafford will be a cauldron of emotion for Sunday's showdown but will be stressing to his team that they need to keep their heads.

"I have played a few of these myself and I know the magnitude of it, for the fans, for everyone who works here," he said.

"There have been comments, 'this is the big one', 'onto this one' - but then it is our job to be focusing and channelling all that energy into performance-mode when we start the game on Sunday.

"It's not about emotions. I understand that emotion can be brought into it, but we have to stay focused and controlled, but with some fight in us as well."