Whatever the result, my biggest hope is that the game isn't all about the referees - which I'm afraid it will be.
After all that has been said about standards, penalties, after recent interviews it would be some display of arrogance for the PGMOL to once again do their inept and biased thing - which they so obviously will.
These games have always been about pressure on the officials - from the managers, the players, and the crowds.
The thing is - this season should have been the season that all that changed - without 50,000 fans in the stadiums, all the pressure on decision making changes - there's no longer a home/away influence (other than the ground itself), there's no pressure from the shouting/booing/general abuse when a big call needs to be made, and there's no time pressures in terms of keeping 50,000 fans waiting, and therefore the decisions can take a little longer if needed (which many have, but are still somehow wrong...).
There has never been a better time to make stone cold, unbiased, logical decisions, based on a simple set of clear rules that will be unchallenged. The fact that the FA have still managed to fuck it up highlights how utterly inept they are.
What gives me hope is that I think these things do even themselves out - even if not completely. I don't believe in conspiracy theories and obviously no other team is going to get both their best centre backs crocked for the 2nd half of the season, but I do think over time a teams luck can certainly change. Officials will feel the pressure indirectly via the managers and media to show greater impartiality and more consistent decision making, and sooner or later they will need to sort out VAR which has been an embarrassment for a country that invented the game and has always prided itself on sporting integrity and fairness.
In the last few weeks alone, we've had Moutinho and Klopp calling out Utd on their penalties and decisions, video of Pogba telling Shaw to dive more, and Rashford openly admitting he's been coached to go down (a bizarre statement after all the positive things he's said and done this year). I think all of that will be in the minds of some of the officials (well, those from outside of the Manchester postcodes), and Klopp has also been planting seeds in his interviews for a few months now about bad decisions, and the FA will know that his words - more than most other managers - resonate around the football world.