Well, it’s going to be a tough day.
Southampton didn’t do us a favour and allowed Manchester City to bring the point difference to 5 points. We are visiting Anfield, one of the worst place to play at. Klopp, in his previous game against City, benched Salah, Trent, Robertson and Gakpo; four players who are well rested and eager to prove a point today!? Worst of all, Liverpool are sitting at 8th, and are in a battle of Champions League spot. They are wounded and Klopp with all this negative press against him will be eager to prove the doubters wrong.
But hey, we have one of the best teams on the planet currently, playing some wonderful football and on any given day, we can cause trouble to any team. It’s a title race for us, much important than what Liverpool’ is playing for. Arteta and the players wouldn’t have forgotten the embarrassment from our last visit and Martinelli is going to cause havoc today. And we have Trossard, who scored a hat-trick against Liverpool with Brighton, so you never know.
Saka is back from the illness which didn’t allow him to start against Leeds last week. We still have doubts about Eddie Nketiah and William Saliba, Arteta refused to provide any specific details about their injuries, it could be either tactical or the situation hasn’t improved yet. I don’t care about the Pool’s players.
It’s going to a battle of the midfield. We were stronger defensively if Saliba was available but then VVD is doubtful too, which makes it even. Our front three is better than them, though Salah is world class and has knack of scoring against us. We have a functioning midfield in Odegaard, Partey and Xhaka and if they play to their forms today, we could come up with a point at minimum from Anfield. I want to see us winning though, we haven’t won in our last 7 visits and we need to change it. TODAY.
Right, so what are we excited for? We are top of the league. Bukayo is back and he loves to score / assist against top 6. Gabriel Jesus is back and scored couple goals. Ben White is playing some delicious football, Gabriel is a monster and Zinchenko is a nuisance for any manager. Partey is our dark horse, no non-sense football, don’t care about limelight and don’t need the praises – just let me do my work and go back to sleep. Xhaka made me eat a humble pie, I hope he makes the size of that pie a bit bigger today. Our captain is in form, Martinelli will eat Trent for breakfast. Only concern for us is Holding v Nunez. If Holding can keep it calm today, we are winning guys.
I don’t see much changes with Jesus starting at top with Martinelli and Saka on the wings. A midfield of Partey, Odegaard and Xhaka will do. Ben at RB, Gabriel and Holding pairing for CB and Zinchenko at LB.
We have a strong bench of Trossard, Vieira, Tierney, Nelson. Tired legs will be replaced but that’s all on the game progress. I see us stealing a 0-1 win today, breaking the Anfield curse and reaching a bit closer the trophy.
See you during the game. #COYG
Tony-because he’s only thinking of defensive replacements and we have no one he trusts, minus maybe Tierney
I agree with the player coming on – not player coming off.
What the fuck with Ode coming off?
holy shit that’s a concerning double-switch…I guess Xhaka’s got to throw an armband to the ground and give the supporters the bird in order to get subbed off…but whom in their right mind would ever do that???
The ref just discovered time wasting.
Fucking prick.
Feels like the mind fuckingly slowest 45 minutes of my life
Trossard’s got to take that defender on, especially considered how spread out they were and he was 1 v. 1
considering
It was always coming
Arteta can’t make a sub to save his fucking life.
Carragher saying the title’s back in City’s hands – no it’s not.
We’re going to have a good 5 or 6 minutes added on.
it was only a matter of time when you deploy such negative tactics
COME ON ARSENAL!!!
just like MA, TIerney comes on to protect the tie…no thought whatsoever about actually setting up to secure all 3…it’s all on the players to find a way in spite of the gutless manager
Fuck sake
It’s clear Arteta doesn’t trust his subs. We were being overrun all over the field and Arteta did nothing to change our play.
Arteta snatching a draw from the jaws of victory.
That aside Ramsdale was excellent. Plenty of other players very very good today.
Xhaka is and has always been a liability.
Exhausted. What a game…
Kroenke
Its not healthy.
good on Ramsdale, but it’s difficult to watch an affair where the greatest moments for us in the whole of the second half involved our Keeper’s ability to not allow Pool to score 3 unanswered goals and leave us without a point…based on what I witnessed the match turned on a dime when Xhaka showed his true colours and we were very fortunate that we weren’t on the receiving end of an embarassing 4or 5-2 comeback defeat