Pre Match - Arsenal (a) - Carabao - Thurs
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Easy night. Piss poor Arsenal team. Should give their fans a refund. Still good to stuff a London mob. Do Palace on Sundee.
Did the broadcaster seriously go with "TWO JOT TO HANDLE"?
Was there moaning in here? Glad I stayed away until 90th minute then
& We'll be signing Haaland in 10 days.
Don't say that FSG will look to sell him in the summer 😉
It's just from one person to be fair
I was very distracted watching the game but we deserved to win, stopped them from having chances, and played at least a little bit like the mentality monsters of old.
I think winning this trophy would see us go far in the CL
I think winning this trophy would see us go far in the CL
Posters like their avatars ? Oh dear.
If only posters were as considerate about @binomial
You had me at. : 'Jesus the whining in here tonight. '
Not where Jones (who had a damn good game) and Gordon (a 17 yr old) were concerned.
Don't forget Fabs (bar a couple of rash challenges) and Virge (bar the moment Fabs bailed him out). TAA was superb and so was Bobby. Robbo had a really good game holding up Saka.
Thought Milner was rash again when he came on though - just threw himself at people.
I thought our pressing game and defensive structure were the star of the game today. After the torrid first 20 minutes, we basically prevented Arsenal from settling into their patterns of play building from the back, their talented creative players were starved of the ball, didn't know how to change it and wilted. I thought Firmino was excellent as the leader of the high press, he really imposed his will on Arsenal without touching the ball, forcing them to kick it long or pass into the traps on the wings. Gordon was trying very hard to match his senior colleagues and for the most part did OK, I think Klopp will be satisfied with his defensive work. And at the base of the midfield, Fabinho won almost all his duels; this is where Arsenal missed having proper central midfielders – it was at times almost funny how easily Fabs was able to time his interventions and nick the ball, sending us on the counter every time. Firmino, Fabinho and Van Dijk were the leaders, but defensively it was a proper team performance.
With the ball, Trent obviously had a great game to atone for his horrible home performance against Arsenal. Jones doesn't get much love here, but he actually played well, mature and confident in using the ball. Paul Merson on Sky highlighted his selfless run that took away a defender for Jota's first goal. And Jota was unplayable at times and totally destroyed Tomiyasu and White. Overall, lots of positives and I loved seeing the glum-looking Arteta disappearing down the tunnel. Loki thwarted again! Chelsea will be tough because of their world-class midfield; I hope Thiago can finally be fit for a big game and hopefully we'll have Elliott as an option too.
With the ball, Trent obviously had a great game to atone for his horrible home performance against Arsenal. Jones doesn't get much love here, but he actually played well, mature and confident in using the ball. Paul Merson on Sky highlighted his selfless run that took away a defender for Jota's first goal. And Jota was unplayable at times and totally destroyed Tomiyasu and White. Overall, lots of positives and I loved seeing the glum-looking Arteta disappearing down the tunnel. Loki thwarted again! Chelsea will be tough because of their world-class midfield; I hope Thiago can finally be fit for a big game and hopefully we'll have Elliott as an option too.
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Agree with all of this.. Gordon started like a rabbit in the headlights (he wasn't alone tonight.. torrid first 20, but most of the attacks were from the side he was on). Grew into the game as the first half rolled on, easy to forget how young he is.
It was another bad miss around the 50 minute mark, you can't get away from it. The one at the weekend probably in his head still. But he's getting in the right positions to miss.
After that, he retreated into a more defensive role. You could see Trent starting to get frustrated with him ball watching in the last 5 minutes of his time on the pitch.
But a great learning experience for him.
Perhaps we should learn from this – it's hard to get your full concentration a few hours after stepping off the plane and as a result bad things can happen. If Sadio, Mo or Naby fly to Liverpool let's say on a Friday and we have a game early on Saturday, I don't think they should be involved.
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Yes he was very good.
For Keita that's probably true, for Salah he's a fucking pro and no waybwould he be distracted by anything
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