It’s Champions League night. A loss against Bournemouth was devastating and a win today will wash out a bit of that. We are playing Shakhtar Donetsk at home, and a win today will also bring us back in the top 8.
Playing XI is out. Mikel has fixed 2 of my complaints with whatever was available. Trossard makes into the midfield in place of Merino, so we are not going with three DMs today. Martinelli is back into the team with Havertz up top and Jesus in place of Saka. Sterling should be a ‘give him 15 min in a 2-0 game’ option, not a starter.
Line up looks okay to me.
European nights are always nervy. There are upsets but we should be winning against Shakhtar comfortably and I am hoping to see all 3 of our forwards scoring today. I hate to say it but a 1-0 win is not going to fix our confidence. We need the attacking football back today, we need to be in control for the whole 90 min, we need to show that we can win without making any errors.
And the seniors needs to take that responsibility. Trossard has played enough game, Jesus was brought for his huge experience and was believed to mentor the likes of Martinelli and Saka And Thomas Partey needs to keep control of that midfield. It’s Champions League night, couple years back – these same set of players were dreaming of these nights and when you got one, you need to show that with your actions.
Right, there is one more very important thing I have been talking about. We need to finish in top 8 of the group stage at any cost. I don’t want us to see playing 2 qualification games later in the stage.
It’s too early to say anything but there is some serious competition. And the fact that Bayern, Barcelona and Real Madrid are on the same points with us and are going to compete for the top is going to make our life difficult. What can we do? Win the easy ones and put fights against the best teams in Europe.
We have an easy one today. Lets go out in red and white and WIN this. Lets beat them 4-0 and get back our confidence.
See you during the match. #COYG
Ref becoming very Liverpooly.
Marc
If you are IN there, can you just shout out a c*nt to Salah. Always wanted to, never got a chance while I was in England. That bugger has scored against us in last 7 seasons.
Ask a Liverpool fan who the best player ever, they will say Salah. And he can’t fucking beat Martinelli lol…
That was a very poor first touch from Marti..
Skelly coming on for Timber.. the only thing that can force Arteta to trust a player he hasn’t bought, is injury!
Havertz cost us 3 likely goals in this match.
And Salah scored against.. wanker.
*again
Hoopah,
You didn’t get the memo? He is a versatile player who can play in midfield and as a CF.. he is doing great and is one of the most important player for Arsenal..
He can’t fucking score though…
If we can’t beat the likes of Pool and Citeh at Home, we don’t deserve the title…
Nwaneri coming in 85th minute. He has got a lot of minutes to do something…
Anthony Taylor, the bald cunt..
Did Havertz handle the ball ?
Nope, no idea why a free kick was given. The commentators were more interested in pointing out that it was given before the final shot… They didn’t have a reason as well
30 sec left, a corner is given a goal kick…
2-2.. not good for us.. we should have been won this.
A draw is a good result.
Basically Liverpool still has a heavy metal players. But A. Arnold is slowing them down. The way all players were deferring to Arnold leaving him the ball ,looks like Slot tailored around Arnold.
Everyone has their Achilles, even Pep , who perchance is more brutal.
Game has left us with a defensive quite impacted. But look like injuries have not been too bad , except Gabriel knee
a draw is a good result for them, not so much us…Slot got a couple things wrong but managed to secure the tie, whereas we needed to go all out for the winner once everything was square, but we didn’t have the required horses on the pitch
We should have won. A draw is not good enough at home when you are challenging for the title. That’s 2 point lost…
When we go to Etihad or Anfield, a draw is enough.. not at home..
positives:
(1) we showed some resilience, especially in light of our defensive personnel issues
(2) Rice was better from the set piece spot, as we could have easily scored twice
(3) we weren’t overtly defensive from the off and actually came to play, at least early on
negatives:
(1) besides Saka’s individual brilliance, we still displayed a glaring lack of quality finishing up top
(2) injuries, injuries, injuries.
(3) MA’s lack of faith in Ethan as an Ode alternative
(4) we needed all 3 and only got 1
when oh when are we going to put it altogether for a full 90+minutes this season??