Topic: Liverpool 3 v Arsenal 1, Anfield '40 Matip'48'58 Mo '84 Torrero

[Beninger]

Watched it with a bunch of arsenal supporters. Apparently none of them agreed with Tyler and Neville.

[lukeb1981]

Watched it with a bunch of arsenal supporters. Apparently none of them agreed with Tyler and Neville.

They came into it when we made a few subs and slowed the game down a bit but you always felt we could step it up again if we needed to. But having to listen to the shite spouted on Sky you would think we got out of jail and where lucky to come away with the win. Only for some desperate blocks we would have been 5 or 6 up .When they did score you had Rat boy bang on about how it was a massive massive goal for them , then realized how fucking stupid he sounded and changed it to  a massive goal in their season? Neville and and Tyler are always going to hate us with Carra now their little lap dog, its fairly evident when we score and its practically on mute where if someone scores against us they nearly cream themselves.If they hate us fair enough but dont put them on our games where people have paid massive subscriptions to sky so they can watch us.
We really are some team these days ,no team in the league will want to play us.We really have got the fear factor back and played some absolutely devastating football today.

[Redshadow]

We're rather good, aren't we?
I can see why we wanted Pepe, and I love how VvD played him out. As mentioned by others, he sized him up, and then turned him into a young player he is, outmuscled and outperformed by an experienced player.

We've become the standard for everyone to measure that any team will be relieved not to be spanked by us. Kinda being like City, but we build the team within our own means.

[Something Worse]

We're rather good, aren't we?
I can see why we wanted Pepe, and I love how VvD played him out. As mentioned by others, he sized him up, and then turned him into a young player he is, outmuscled and outperformed by an experienced player.

We've become the standard for everyone to measure that any team will be relieved not to be spanked by us. Kinda being like City, but we build the team within our own means.

15 teams in the league are beaten before they get off the bus, which is ideal to say the least.

[PhaseOfPlay]

15 teams in the league are beaten before they get off the bus, which is ideal to say the least.

In the case of Newcastle, they're beaten before they get on it

[Something Worse]

In the case of Newcastle, they're beaten before they get on it

 

[Ghost Town]

15 teams in the league are beaten before they get off the bus,

And one team's bus is beaten-up, before they get off it and cry

[jckliew]

O happy day!

[Walk on, walk on]

Throughout the match I could only keep thinking that Arsenal was absolute gash. We weren't even barely 7/10 and had a poor last 20 minutes, and still they ran sorely out of ideas.

[lamonti]

I honesty don't know why Arsenal would turn up in their irrelevant third kit rather than their iconic yellow/navy change kit which is probably one of the few kits that haunts Anfield.

Tyler and particularly Neville absolutely absurd at this stage: trying to create a completely false impression of the game in the hopes that it will somehow impact the psyche of either Liverpool fans or players. He tried it with the Champions League ("you should chuck it!"), now he's trying it with Salah ("He'll leave this summer!"), with United ("ready to pounce when Pep leaves"), with Van Dijk ("Pépé has him worried"). Mate, you're just not that important. Absolutely deluded commentary from Neville. Fucking spoofer. Humiliating himself week on week. Stick stoking the abuse for Pogba you prick.

Salah: what a goal. Maybe the combination of all the most Salah bits of play into one goal. Control, strength, determination, lightning pace and cool-as-fuck pass into the bottom corner. He's gonna score buckets this season.

Gini: as much as he would frustrate you with his garbage shooting, that little big on the left touch line where he outpaced and outpowered their right-back, then wriggled out from between two or three players to lay the ball off... you absolutely love that for you team.

AOC: please play him in the middle, don't bring him on up front.

Lallana: what's Shaq done to deserve this?

And of course, what a team this is. 12 wins on the spin. Hopefully many more to come.

[killer-heels]

Bizarre game report in the Guardian - 'ponderous start by Liverpool', 'first goal against the run of play' etc. My comment that reporter Wilson must have spent a couple of hours in the Arkles before he got to the ground was removed. Since then about 100 people have posted something similar. The Graun has become a very strange newspaper.

Indeed. Now its a newspaper that spends its time blaming remainers for Brexit.

[Fairytale of 2005]

It all just looked so easy. I too find the Sky comms baffling, but sod them.

[88_RED]

Bossed the game..
Never out of 3rd gear really..
Arsenal were lucky it was only 3..
Bobby/Fabinho/Salah were superb..

Going by the comments glad the PL world feed doesn't have the shit sky commentary.. We had the two Jim's (proudfoot and Beglin) They were fairly reasonable and called the game as it was..

Onto Burnley next.. where another bus awaits us.. Hope Gomez is rotated in for that game, just so that he can score a massive header over Ben Fucking Mee and get some revenge for last season..

[killer-heels]

People can argue who is the best and really the conversation is out of us and City in Europe. But, at Anfield, there is no tougher team to play.

[Guz-kop]

Maybe one of the best performances under Klopp. Mostly because of the way we kept another very good team (I think they'll finish top 4) at complete arms length for the whole game. Other than the goal they had 2 chances = one a mistake from hendo and another a mad Adrian moment. Superb performance from us especially first 15 and then 20 after half time

[Qston]

I have never pretended to be some tactical guru but most of the press this morning are saying that arsenal are showing real signs of improvement and reasons for optimism. Am I missing something because I thought they were bang average and we dismissed them with ease

[killer-heels]

I have never pretended to be some tactical guru but most of the press this morning are saying that arsenal are showing real signs of improvement and reasons for optimism. Am I missing something because I thought they were bang average and we dismissed them with ease

I think that says how good we are. They appeared to be better with some more players you can hang your hat on.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

[El Lobo]

I have never pretended to be some tactical guru but most of the press this morning are saying that arsenal are showing real signs of improvement and reasons for optimism. Am I missing something because I thought they were bang average and we dismissed them with ease

I think because we normally just tear them to shreds, whereas there were times we looked a little short on ideas. Reality being they just did what small teams do at Anfield, parked up and went direct.

They need to develop what Wenger did, and blow the small teams away and hope it’s enough to finish top four.

[Fordy]

I have never pretended to be some tactical guru but most of the press this morning are saying that arsenal are showing real signs of improvement and reasons for optimism. Am I missing something because I thought they were bang average and we dismissed them with ease

Thought Arsenal were lucky that TAA and Robbo's crossing wasn't really at its best yesterday. Yes Arsenal tried and took risks but overall we controlled the game and fully deserved the win. We should of won by more.

Shame we let them score but we move on to Burnley.

[SerbianScouser]

Reality being they just did what small teams do at Anfield, parked up and went direct.

I don't think they wanted to park the bus as much as they were forced to. They wanted to pass through our press but just never managed to as we squeezed the life out of them, practically it was us who prevailed.

However in theory their game plan was spot on in sense that they defended the space within the width of the box and dared us to beat them with crosses. Other way around the damage would have been far greater. Basically they picked the less of two evils.

[Six Beardy]

Bizarre game report in the Guardian - 'ponderous start by Liverpool', 'first goal against the run of play' etc. My comment that reporter Wilson must have spent a couple of hours in the Arkles before he got to the ground was removed. Since then about 100 people have posted something similar. The Graun has become a very strange newspaper.

Haha yeah that Paul Wilson article is terrible - starts by referring to Liverpool's ponderous start then a couple of paragraphs later says we gave them a pounding in the first 15 mins. My favourite bit was where he tried to infer VAR bias towards Liverpool...

 'Liverpool were not exactly pummelling their opponents when Alexander-Arnold swung over a corner from the right that Joël Matip headed in from six yards. Replays supported Mattéo Guendouzi’s argument that Liverpool players had in effect held him in a headlock, yet there was no VAR intervention despite the fact that several minutes had been wasted at the preceding corner in checking whether an alleged Nacho Monreal offence was worthy of a red card.' 

WTF ?   

*Paul Wilson is an Evertonian.

[Fromola]

I have never pretended to be some tactical guru but most of the press this morning are saying that arsenal are showing real signs of improvement and reasons for optimism. Am I missing something because I thought they were bang average and we dismissed them with ease

I don't think Arsenal are up to much, they'll just outscore most of the bottom 14 because of the firepower they've got with their front three and then you throw Ceballos and Ozil in the mix. A bit like Liverpool in 13/14 but without the brilliance of a Suarez to make the difference in games. Pepe and Aubemeyang have to put away those chances at 0-0 but against the likes of Burnley if they miss one chance they'll get another.

Once they get Tierney and Bellerin fit they'll be a better side. They had nothing at full back yesterday.

[Fromola]

I think because we normally just tear them to shreds, whereas there were times we looked a little short on ideas. Reality being they just did what small teams do at Anfield, parked up and went direct.

Remember when the Goons used to spend most of the game shouting Hoof at us?

[Gnurglan]

At a match I've never seen so many fat fellas with tissues, mopping their fucking sweat. Is it global warming, is it because the Anfield faithful have become far more corpulent over the years or is it that fat fellas are more discerning about their sweaty appearance.

Answers on a sweaty postcard.

[kesey]

That third goal.

Unreal stuff. From defence to a goal in two passes. When Fabinio played the pass and the collective ' good ball ' from the crowd then the collective ' go on ' when Mo skinned Luiz.

Easy... fuckin boss footy.

[duvva 💅]

Haha yeah that Paul Wilson article is terrible - starts by referring to Liverpool's ponderous start then a couple of paragraphs later says we gave them a pounding in the first 15 mins. My favourite bit was where he tried to infer VAR bias towards Liverpool...

 'Liverpool were not exactly pummelling their opponents when Alexander-Arnold swung over a corner from the right that Joël Matip headed in from six yards. Replays supported Mattéo Guendouzi’s argument that Liverpool players had in effect held him in a headlock, yet there was no VAR intervention despite the fact that several minutes had been wasted at the preceding corner in checking whether an alleged Nacho Monreal offence was worthy of a red card.' 

WTF ?   

*Paul Wilson is an Evertonian.

Read that article when I got in from the game and couldn’t have misrepresented things more if he tried.

We were dominant and 3-1 flattered them massively yesterday. The only slight criticism you could have is we didn’t perhaps create enough clear cut chances, but I thought at times yesterday was some of the best football I’ve seen this team play.

I think they set up to defend the crosses and they did that well which is why it seemed like we lacked creativity but we are miles apart ability wise. They probably are better than last season but so are we and in my view we’ve moved further ahead despite what the score line suggests. Think we’re going to hand out some pretty hefty beatings this season when everything clicks.

Much to look forward to

[Hazell]

What does Luke Shaw have to do with anything?

[Theoldkopite]

Bizarre game report in the Guardian - 'ponderous start by Liverpool', 'first goal against the run of play' etc. My comment that reporter Wilson must have spent a couple of hours in the Arkles before he got to the ground was removed. Since then about 100 people have posted something similar. The Graun has become a very strange newspaper.

Paul Wilson is an Everon supporter who likes to wind us up. I have had a few email discussions with him in the past but decided a while ago to just ignore the bitter Bitter.

[TepidT2O]

Luiz blamed the third goal on the ref.

If he hadn’t given the pen and booked him then he would have just fouled amp

WTF?

Don’t rip his shirt off in the area you knob.  Totally bizarre.  The ref didn’t even need VAR, it was stonewall.

[woof]

Bizarre game report in the Guardian - 'ponderous start by Liverpool', 'first goal against the run of play' etc. My comment that reporter Wilson must have spent a couple of hours in the Arkles before he got to the ground was removed. Since then about 100 people have posted something similar. The Graun has become a very strange newspaper.

They must be watching another game in a parallel universe. Arsenal got away not having being battered 6-0 or something like that. We weren't even trying very hard

[vicar]

There really are some bizarre reports about how Arsenal looked like they are getting better.

I have just watched it back and its more one sided than I thought yesterday. Yes they have a couple of breaks, mainly down to small mistakes from us, but that first 15 minutes of the second half we destroyed them. That 5 on 2 break being an example of where we should have had another goal really. Had that gone in I think they would have crumbled.

Does anyone know what the VAR Red Card review was? The information in the ground was non-existent - but it seems sky had no idea either?

[JackWard33]

They must be watching another game in a parallel universe. Arsenal got away not having being battered 6-0 or something like that. We weren't even trying very hard

Yeah I was actually kind of disappointed we didn’t create more given how easily and how many times we took the ball off them in their final third especially in the second half after we’d adjusted .. suicidal from them and another day that is a 6-0

[disgraced cake]

We played some excellent football in the first half, against another team, or an Arsenal side over the last few years, we would have gone into half time 3 or 4 goals up, and that's without creating more than a couple of clear cut chances. The second half was like football from another planet at times, and everyone knows we could do better/play with more intensity. We are the best team in the world, by a bigger distance than people want to admit. I think a lot of our own fans don't even realise it at times, how fucking insane we are.

[Morgana]

We battered them. Didn’t even try to get a corner in the last 10-15 minutes. We even switched off and let them score a non-event goal. Should’ve been a 5-0 trumping.

[sirKennyDaggers]

They came into it when we made a few subs and slowed the game down a bit but you always felt we could step it up again if we needed to. But having to listen to the shite spouted on Sky you would think we got out of jail and where lucky to come away with the win. Only for some desperate blocks we would have been 5 or 6 up .When they did score you had Rat boy bang on about how it was a massive massive goal for them , then realized how fucking stupid he sounded and changed it to  a massive goal in their season? Neville and and Tyler are always going to hate us with Carra now their little lap dog, its fairly evident when we score and its practically on mute where if someone scores against us they nearly cream themselves.If they hate us fair enough but dont put them on our games where people have paid massive subscriptions to sky so they can watch us.
We really are some team these days ,no team in the league will want to play us.We really have got the fear factor back and played some absolutely devastating football today.

You are right about  Carragher, he is treated dismissively by Tyler whilst Neville gets the utmost respect.
Neville has lost all pretence of being impartial were Liverpool are concerned.

[Riquende]

Haha yeah that Paul Wilson article is terrible - starts by referring to Liverpool's ponderous start then a couple of paragraphs later says we gave them a pounding in the first 15 mins. My favourite bit was where he tried to infer VAR bias towards Liverpool...

 'Liverpool were not exactly pummelling their opponents when Alexander-Arnold swung over a corner from the right that Joël Matip headed in from six yards. Replays supported Mattéo Guendouzi’s argument that Liverpool players had in effect held him in a headlock, yet there was no VAR intervention despite the fact that several minutes had been wasted at the preceding corner in checking whether an alleged Nacho Monreal offence was worthy of a red card.' 

WTF ?   

*Paul Wilson is an Evertonian.

What's weird is that the same paper's minute-by-minute reporting of the match had this:

45 min: Replays of the goal show that as Trent Alexander-Arnold’s delivery was fizzing into the penalty area, Arsenal’s defenders were so worried about containing Virgil van Dijk, that they actually got in each other’s way. Grabbing the front of Dutchman’s shirt and refusing to let go, Sokratiss outstretched arm actually prevented Guendouzi from marking Matip, who jumped for a free header.

So Guendouzi was impeded, but by his own team-mate.

[JC the Messiah]

Shame Firmino was just short of knocking in that cross from Robbo after 80 seconds. Think we'd have scored half a dozen if that'd gone in.

It says something when arsenal are getting plaudits for losing 3-1. It shows that we're on another level.

Also interesting what Carragher said in the commentary. When arsenal scored, he said that it was only a consolation, and a few years back there'd be concern from the fans that we could throw away a convincing lead, but now we're a different side.

I heard a stat about Liverpool winning every time Mo scores, and it goes back quite a long way. Reminiscent of the days of Ian Rush. He scored, we won.

[AbdulMunim]

Isn't it possible to start an online petition that states that Tyler and Neville should be permanently banned from commenting in our games? I have to literally mute my stream due to them..... Seems like a funeral Everytime they are commenting.... Ruins the whole match.... Please let the higher ups at sky know that these two are unacceptable 😠😠😠😠

[na fir dearg]

we won without really playing our best stuff and I fucking love that