Gary Neville said that the current Liverpool team reminds him of how his all-conquering Manchester United sides of old used to play.

The Reds underlined their title credentials on Sunday, scoring six times against Tottenham to ensure they will spend Christmas Day with a four-point lead at the top of the table.

Arne Slot's men recorded a 6-3 win over Tottenham after a predictably frantic game in North London on Sunday, and Neville praised the Reds' game management — despite the two goals they conceded after the 70-minute mark which gave Ange Postecoglou's men a glimmer of hope heading into the closing stages of the match.

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"They remind me a little bit of us (the United teams Neville played in)," Neville said on Sky Sports. "We would play high tempo for 15 minutes then we'd sit back and play deep on the counter, then sometimes we'd slow it down and try and control the game if we were one or two goals up.

"So all different ways of playing in the moment that the game needs. I thought that may have gone. There's been an element of talking about players being robots in the last two or three years: 'I will do what my coach tells me to', at which point this Liverpool team seems to still have that sort of independent thinking within them to know what time and moment the game is in and then they'll play that particular way, so that's the bit that reminds me a little bit of us, and they are a lot better than I ever thought they would be this season."

Meanwhile, Liverpool head coach Arne Slot was not totally satisfied with his team's performance as he questioned his players for allowing Spurs to score twice in the second half. "For 60 minutes we did everything we had to do, we were comfortable and good with the ball. The main thing is we worked very, very hard," Slot told Match of the Day.

"But then the same players with the same quality thought that 10 or 15 minutes of not working as hard was good enough. Tottenham have enough quality to score goals if you give them chances. You have to be on top of your game for the whole game and we didn't do that."