Arsenal have hit a decent run of form and sit only a place and 2 points behind us. But you’d have to think that the response from a wounded Liverpool team will be ferocious and bloody.
Lots of doubt about players being available but good to see Mane back in proper training and Henderson and Milner doing light training. I live in London and these arsenal fans are getting very mouthy again, time to put them in their place.
A Becker (best in the world version)
Trent Matip Virgil Tsmikas
Henderson Fabinho Thiago
Salah Mane Jota
3 - 0 to Liverpool, all goals come in a whirlwind first half, Jurgen demanding the heavy metal angry but fair intensity, meaning the players and fans can coast a nice chilled 2nd half
Arsenal building up a bit of momentum. We are a level above them, but we have stuttered too much and dropped silly points in the league. Time to assert our dominance.
I think we will be at it, and will win by three. Even with a few injuries.
Can’t wait for the real action to start, after watching a self-congratulatory England team revel in its achievements. International football is a joke for throwing up those fixtures and disrupting proper football for it, but that’s another story…
I have a mad feeling about this one that we could make a statement.
Arsenal touted as turned the corner under Arteta (which they have in 100% fairness for he bloke) and after us not turning up at West Ham I fully expect us to be chomping at the bit.
You know what, I’ve missed facing an Arsenal side in a bit of form, it’s been a while. Looking forward to it.
Depending on our midfield situation, I could see us having the double-pivot in mind also, of Fabinho and Thiago. It’s more tricky to play it without Bobby, but we have other options. Looking forward to see Thiago get a run of games at LCM, hopefully he’s worked on his fitness during the break.
Par example if Ox (currently on paper the obvious choice to start, but hopefully we can have Hendo/Millie fit, especially Hendo of course) is struggling to put together a clean performance in CM, we can change the structure.
I’m more concerned about if we will shoot ourselves in both feet again like at have several times this season, than anything arsenal throw at us. We need to go on a winning run, we’ve dropped a lot of points already through carelessness.