Suarez back to deepen Man U gloom

LONDON-NAMPA/AFP Buoyed by Luis Suarez's return, Liverpool will visit Manchester United in the League Cup tonight eager to inflict more misery on a team reeling from a brutal derby defeat. Sunday's 4-1 loss at Manchester City completed United's worst start to a season in nine years and prompted renewed scrutiny of new manager David Moyes's methods. Since succeeding Alex Ferguson, Moyes has seen his side beaten by Liverpool and City and held to a 0-0 draw by Chelsea, leaving the defending champions five points off the pace in the Premier League. Another loss to arch rivals Liverpool would only add weight to the steadily creeping doubts about his aptitude for the job, but striker Wayne Rooney believes tonight's game has arrived at just the right time. "We have all grown up, whether it is Manchester, Liverpool or somewhere else, having local derbies," Rooney told United's in-house television channel, MUTV. "It is not nice when you lose one. I have been there as a fan and now as a player. Thankfully we have another massive game against Liverpool. "It is the ideal game for us... We have to try and get the victory so we can put this defeat to the back of our minds." Rooney appears to have put an unsettled close-season to the back of his mind, scoring four goals in his last three games, and Liverpool will hope that Suarez is able to draw a line beneath his own recent trials and tribulations. The Uruguayan will be playing in his first official club game since April 21, having now completed a 10-game ban for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic last season. Suarez tried to force through a move to Arsenal during the close season, even accusing Liverpool of breaking promises made to him, but manager Brendan Rodgers is confident that he will be forgiven by the club's fans. Referencing Liverpool's backing of Suarez after he was banned for racially abusing United left-back Patrice Evra in 2011, Rodgers said: "This club has given every single player here everything in the time I've been here, and none more so than Luis. "He will show that and demonstrate that in his performances and that is what the players and people want to see."