Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

[Saint Domingo]

Arsenal just need to keep it at 1 because they’ll get chances against this defence. Knowing them though they’ll concede from a set piece immediately after half time.

Klopp’s Liverpool is Stoke on steroids. Set pieces and a billion crosses every game with some kick and rush and loads of fouling in between.

 

[navidson]

I just imagine the halitosis, reckon his breath would smell like scotch egg and ribena. A sickly sweet masking the musk of death and decay.

Painting pictures with words here

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

I’m convinced Fabinho gets 4 free fouls before refs even think of giving him a yellow card. The amount he gets away with every game is ridiculous. Last season there was a period where Allan just got booked for the first tackle he made in the game.

Yeah, exactly that. I think Fernandinho at City gets away with similar, but it's such a huge advantage if every one of your players can clatter their opponents two or three times for free, then know they've got at least one more before any chance of getting a red.

 

[Kurt.]

I just imagine the halitosis, reckon his breath would smell like scotch egg and ribena. A sickly sweet masking the musk of death and decay.

Breath like a starving Labrador

 

[hirons11]

Have Arsenal ever showed up in a big game under Arteta?

He’s fecking useless.

Think they won an FA Cup final

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

Painting pictures with words here

I've put more thought into what Klopp's breath would smell like than parenting my kids or my job. I plan to write the definitive account of it at some point in the future.

 

[marsh]

World Class Ramsdale apparently

 

[abcdef]

Arsenal just need to keep it at 1 because they’ll get chances against this defence. Knowing them though they’ll concede from a set piece immediately after half time.

Klopp’s Liverpool is Stoke on steroids. Set pieces and a billion crosses every game with some kick and rush and loads of fouling in between.

The openings are there, they really are. This is a really poor performance by Arsenal - timid, cautious and error-strewn. That said, 2-3 years ago they'd have been out of the game by now as Liverpool would have scored more than just one. That was not a vintage half of Premier League football.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

The openings are there, they really are. This is a really poor performance by Arsenal - timid, cautious and error-strewn. That said, 2-3 years ago they'd have been out of the game by now as Liverpool would have scored more than just one. That was not a vintage half of Premier League football.

The best entertainment was on the touchline.

Think Arteta and Klopp should just find a room together and work it out.

 

[Saint Domingo]

The openings are there, they really are. This is a really poor performance by Arsenal - timid, cautious and error-strewn. That said, 2-3 years ago they'd have been out of the game by now as Liverpool would have scored more than just one. That was not a vintage half of Premier League football.

it’s just annoying because Liverpool are a bit low on form at the moment and Arsenal are flying high but you just get the feeling they’re too scared of Anfield to play like they have been. A team with one of the best defences in the league recently just allowing one of the smallest players on the pitch to score a header as the supposed best keeper in the league throws one in his net. It’s just a classic Liverpool game just when they need it. Instead of Arsenal turning a stumbling block into a crisis they’re currently just gifting Liverpool a shot in the arm just when they need it. If they just played the same way they had in recent games they’d be a lot better off here but it’s the same old sloppy timid opposition team making uncharacteristic errors at Anfield.

 

[tommye]

Breath like a starving Labrador

Reminds me, how is your mother today mate?

 

[Tubey]

To put into perspective, here are the results the last three years at Anfield.

2020 3-1 Liverpool
2019 5-1 Liverpool
2018 4-0 Liverpool

It's not whether Liverpool win; it's about how many they win by.

 

[TheBigIguana]

To put into perspective, here are the results the last three years at Anfield.

2020 3-1 Liverpool
2019 5-1 Liverpool
2018 4-0 Liverpool

It's not whether Liverpool win; it's about how many they win by.

A top side playing a clearly inferior team at home. It is hardly surprising.

 

[tommytowne]

According to the beeb. "the Gerrard era is up and running"
I hate Villa now.

BBC and Sky's league table will now extend down to wherever Villa are positioned.

 

[maccavennie]

Yeah, exactly that. I think Fernandinho at City gets away with similar, but it's such a huge advantage if every one of your players can clatter their opponents two or three times for free, then know they've got at least one more before any chance of getting a red.

Yep, basically you know you can start at a high tempo and be aggressive as there is very rarely any consequences