Liverpool v Arsenal Post Match

[Phoenix07]

We looked tired and lethargic today. Really sloppy and I still don't get why we play Borini out wide. We needed that ball to stick up front, but we lost it most of the time.

Gerrard was wasteful and slow. You can understand Benitez' thinking in saying Gerrard should be more advanced in his latter years on the pitch.

Not a great week at all, and we've got two weeks to drown in this.

Sterling and Shelvey continue to impress. Lost for words with Reina.

[Kenneth]

With the amount of twisty turny players we have, why aren't we playing it tight in the penalty area. Surely we would be able to get a number of penalties?

I'm quite the optimist but I'm feeling down about our lack of thrust. Perhaps we can put Assaidi on the left and show Sterling some Messi DVDs and tell him to keep doing that.

Not with Howard Webb in charge. Suarez was clearly pulled back and they should have been down to 10 men at 1-1.

[Gibbo]

It's also blatantly obvious that Allen is the only player to have played in a passing team before.

He's magic by the way, excellent close control, good short and long rang passing. Brilliant signing.

[john316]

We clearly weren't

They absolutely smashed us in midfield - it was a Rafa-eque effort from a few years ago. Super solid in defence and excellent on the break. They ran the entire game at their tempo. You don't need to play like Barcelona to dominate a game.

[Lecter]

would have been nice to see assaidi today.

Why wasnt he in the squad???

[Fosterbloke]

I think that Rodgers has underestimated the size of the job facing him.

Perhaps he hasn't and will insist this is a 3 season project.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Does anyone know what the deal with him is?

There is a possibility he's been poor in training? Maybe they're trying to toughen him up as well.

[vlahka]

I gave up going out for a ****ing steak dinner so I could stay home and watch that pile. A huge awesome steak dinner. Hour and a half of bull**** arsenal singing.

[Imy]

We clearly weren't

They were tactically superior. they may not have had waves of attacks or clear cut chances, but their pressing was far better, passing, tackling and desire.

[Mattshark]

They absolutely smashed us in midfield - it was a Rafa-eque effort from a few years ago. Super solid in defence and excellent on the break. They ran the entire game at their tempo. You don't need to play like Barcelona to dominate a game.

Rubbish, they were very good in defence and on the counter, they never controlled the midfield at all.

[McDermotX]

Does anyone know what the deal with him is?

Well he cost 3m for a club that value Downing's quality at 20m......................so ????


(only kidding)

[Suarez]

Which people? Come on, name names.

Bert, Sid, sue, bob, Judy, to name but a few

[cream]

I said i could see us with 0 points aftetr the united game so far we are on 1 with Sunderland and the mancs to go and judging by that we could be on 1 point when those games are played.

Or we could be on 7 points.

[Tee]

We clearly weren't

The stats may say otherwise, but if it was us that beat them like that I would say we dominated them.

[Kenneth]

They scored their first from a counterattack and had numerous breaks from counters early on

Even a trained chimp like me could see that a player should be sitting / holding

Lucas going out is a big miss but Kenny had to suffer that last season

I think the football will become more possession based but we will still be toothless and as such teams will exploit our flaws more readily

Cant say I'm that optimistic of much if any improvement this season

They scored because of a mistake though. And they had no dangerous breaks before that. When you concede the game changes. We were the better team at 0-0 and should have threatened their goal. But didn't because Suarez and Borini, and Gerrard, did nothing. Strikers stopped us going ahead, and if we had I'm sure Sterling would have had a field day as Arsenal pushed on.