But nothing changed when the changes were made City weren’t exactly hanging on.
It’s about conveying the intent. Arteta with that lineup is basically saying that he’s happy with a draw.
Didn’t we get beat 3-1 there last season?
I know we had won the title then like.
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It was the game after the title win.
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But we beat them at home early in the season - and they probably played the best football a visiting side played at Anfield last season (yeah, that includes the defeat against Forest).
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We’ve made lots of fun of Arsenal in the last two years but truth is they really struggled if certain players were injured.With the squad they have now I don’t think they have many players who are irreplaceable
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BTW, happy to see that you still have your record collection.
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If you take away the relegation fodder they have 2 goals from 3 games and 6 shots on goal.
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Not hard to replace Gyorekes. There are plenty of championship level strikers.
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Oh no doubt I just don’t often see the correlation.
Though it will be tough as it follows the away tie in Turkey.
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Early days, but our firepower fills me with hope. We haven’t clicked yet but we can still score the goals and get the points on the board. As we improve we will start to add routine victories, and we need to do that, both for energy levels and the fact that you can’t count on winning by fine margins all the time.
I don’t see anyone else who is better placed than us for the title, but we have to earn it.
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LFC is the biggest winner in this gameweek with zero injuries, zero suspensions, and 3 points while playing shit for a huge swathe of the game. Long may it continue!
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The last line tickled me ; “Liverpool can’t keep winning by one goal every week, we hear. This is true. They’re quite likely to start winning by three or four.”
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I think the City Arsenal game yesterday highlighted how far back City are. Arsenal in many ways face the same challenge as we do - i.e. in getting the new recruits to adapt to their new environment. Getting Wirtz and Isak firing by Christmas will be key.
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Perhaps. I personally don’t think they have bought the quality to match. Add that to the fact they play with the handbrake on and the imagination setting set to zero and I think they’ll struggle enough to score goals when it matters that it will hurt them when competing for the highest honours.
We’ll see how yesterdays result affects them. It can’t be viewed as a bad one but City are there for the taking and they were at home. It’s just the momentum shift in pulling one out the fire that might give them a bit of a change in mentality. How that plays out after years of being a rich man’s Stoke with those tactics ingrained? We’ll see.
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We were at home to Arsenal and we sneaked it. I think the margins are not as wide as some think. I agree that we bought premium but compliancy or a couple of injuries are the danger - beyond not having our team singing from the same karaoke screen.
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They’ve brought the quality. But doesn’t matter who they buy if Arteta persists in playing 3 DM’s in midfield. Especially when he had Nwaneri and Eze in the bench.
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Bring back Wenger 
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Arsenal are on course to finish the league with at best 76 points.
We are on course for 114
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