Liverpool Vs Arsenal

tis the clash if the Titans!

Both teams are unbeaten, Arsenal are top of the table and are playing pretty good football, Liverpool are struggling a bit but are still unbeaten and the win over Everton will install confidence into the players.

Arsenal generally don't do that wonderful at Anfield in the league, last season this game ended 4-1 to Liverpool if I remember correctly.

I think it will be a good, open game with a few goals, I'm more confident about this than I was about Everton for some reason, but I'm not going to predict the score yet!!

How do people see the game going?

Crouch hat trick. 3-0.

1-1.

Fabregas (og) and Adeboyor for Arsenal after a Gerrard back pass gone wrong.

Parks lives wrote:1-1.

Fabregas (og) and Adeboyor for Arsenal after a Gerrard back pass gone wrong.

It will be interesting to see if he has the same understanding with Adebayor that he had with Henry.

We rarely play well at Anfield in the league. If we get a result we will probably need luck on our side. Being a bit pessimistic I think Liverpool will win 2-1, but hopefully we can get at least a draw.

0-0 or 0-1 to Arsenal is my guess. Another classic top 4 encounter.

2-1 to Le'Arse.

Rosicky to score

Adebayor to make Hyypia/Carragher his bitch,

Fabragas to run rings round Gerrard for 90 mins, who will then score a late screamer as a consolation - earning him an 8/10 rating and a description that "He drove Liverpool back into the game".

1-1

Arsenal to take an early lead through Adebayor. Rafa to sub Gerrard on 70 minutes, Liverpool boss the last 20 minutes in midfield and Kuyt gets the equaliser around 5 minutes from time.

S4P wrote:1-1

Arsenal to take an early lead through Adebayor. Rafa to sub Gerrard on 70 minutes, Liverpool boss the last 20 minutes in midfield and Kuyt gets the equaliser around 5 minutes from time.

Football Genius wrote:

S4P wrote:1-1

Arsenal to take an early lead through Adebayor. Rafa to sub Gerrard on 70 minutes, Liverpool boss the last 20 minutes in midfield and Kuyt gets the equaliser around 5 minutes from time.

tell him who bossed the midfield in the chelsea game at anfield earlier in the season FG

I don't need to, he already knows

Torres should return for this game, Alonso may even play:

...................Reina....................

.....Finnan.......Carra........Arbeloa..........Aurellio.............

.......Pennant.......Gerrard......Alonso/Masch........Riise...........

............................Kuyt..............Torres...............................

That's what I'd like to see

Agger *may* also be fit, although hes doubtful.

If Agger starts, i'd be a lot more confident.

Doubt Agger will feature at all, I think Arbeloa might have a slight injury, hopefully he can play though, I don't like the idea of Hyypia against Adabayor, Fabregas and co

Luis wrote:
Arsenal are top of the table and are playing pretty good football.

I think your readng too much into the media hype - yeah that's right, an Arsenal fan telling people not to believe the hype. We haven't really been playing that well recently and we're actually grinding out these results with some moments of magic for the goals and highlights shows.

6-3 to the Arsenal kids

COTR wrote:

Football Genius wrote:

S4P wrote:1-1

Arsenal to take an early lead through Adebayor. Rafa to sub Gerrard on 70 minutes, Liverpool boss the last 20 minutes in midfield and Kuyt gets the equaliser around 5 minutes from time.

tell him who bossed the midfield in the chelsea game at anfield earlier in the season FG

For all the supposed 'bossing' that he did, how many chances did he actually create?

If by bossing you mean playing at a high intensity and making tackles/fouls, then yes he did boss the game. However if you mean bossing the midfield to be like Kaka in the 1st half of the 2005 CL final (where they're creating endless chances for the strikers and making everyone else look very average), he wasn't close to 'bossing' the midfield.

Oops... I forgot, this is Gerrard. There is an unwritten law amongst Liverpool fans that you cannot criticise Gerrard under any circumstances.

S4P wrote:

COTR wrote:

Football Genius wrote:

S4P wrote:1-1

Arsenal to take an early lead through Adebayor. Rafa to sub Gerrard on 70 minutes, Liverpool boss the last 20 minutes in midfield and Kuyt gets the equaliser around 5 minutes from time.

tell him who bossed the midfield in the chelsea game at anfield earlier in the season FG

For all the supposed 'bossing' that he did, how many chances did he actually create?

If by bossing you mean playing at a high intensity and making tackles/fouls, then yes he did boss the game. However if you mean bossing the midfield to be like Kaka in the 1st half of the 2005 CL final (where they're creating endless chances for the strikers and making everyone else look very average), he wasn't close to 'bossing' the midfield.

SP you have it bad mate

I mean bossing as in dominating the game, controlling the game, forcing chelsea to barely have a shot, setting up torres with a brilliant pass Etc fucking etc

funny how people keep mentioning the CL.. a game he came away from as most people's MOTM afterwards.. no wait sorry.. the euroboard version of events places the comeback entirely on hamman. f@ck creating the goals, hamman did all the work

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING OVER THE SAME OLD $h!t

COTR wrote:

S4P wrote:

COTR wrote:

Football Genius wrote:

S4P wrote:1-1

Arsenal to take an early lead through Adebayor. Rafa to sub Gerrard on 70 minutes, Liverpool boss the last 20 minutes in midfield and Kuyt gets the equaliser around 5 minutes from time.

tell him who bossed the midfield in the chelsea game at anfield earlier in the season FG

For all the supposed 'bossing' that he did, how many chances did he actually create?

If by bossing you mean playing at a high intensity and making tackles/fouls, then yes he did boss the game. However if you mean bossing the midfield to be like Kaka in the 1st half of the 2005 CL final (where they're creating endless chances for the strikers and making everyone else look very average), he wasn't close to 'bossing' the midfield.

SP you have it bad mate

I mean bossing as in dominating the game, controlling the game, forcing chelsea to barely have a shot, setting up torres with a brilliant pass Etc fucking etc

funny how people keep mentioning the CL.. a game he came away from as most people's MOTM afterwards.. no wait sorry.. the euroboard version of events places the comeback entirely on hamman. f@ck creating the goals, hamman did all the work

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING OVER THE SAME OLD $h!t

I sense someone is getting riled up.

For all his supposed 'bossing', you didn't exactly win the game, did you?

First half Gerrard was playing as a CM and was getting pissed all over by Kaka. No offence but Milan had it so easy that it looked like it could end up 5/6-0. Rafa brings on a CM who can actually defend at half time (i.e. Hamann), who actually stopped Kaka and allowed Liverpool to get on the front foot. Gerrard went into a free role and suddenly you were laughing. Good first goal, great strike for the second goal and a clever dive for the third. Gerrard will take most MOTM awards because he scored one and "assisted" another, but without Hamann on the field, Kaka was having a wonderful game.

We should of won both that and we did beat you this season so you cant really criticise!

Luis wrote:We should of won both that and we did beat you this season so you cant really criticise!

Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea

Styles apolagised meaning it was 1-0 really!!

Luis wrote:Styles apolagised meaning it was 1-0 really!!

By this logic can we conclude the following:

AC Milan 3-2 Liverpool

Everton 1-0 Liverpool

?

SP what you are really doing here is criticising rafa for not starting with the right tactics to stop kaka

when he changed the formation to stop kaka at halftime it worked and gerrard then was the major contributor to one of the greatest comebacks in football history

so you are right. it was all rafa's fault in the first half for getting outwitted by ancellotti

S4P wrote:

COTR wrote:

S4P wrote:

COTR wrote:

Football Genius wrote:

S4P wrote:1-1

Arsenal to take an early lead through Adebayor. Rafa to sub Gerrard on 70 minutes, Liverpool boss the last 20 minutes in midfield and Kuyt gets the equaliser around 5 minutes from time.

tell him who bossed the midfield in the chelsea game at anfield earlier in the season FG

For all the supposed 'bossing' that he did, how many chances did he actually create?

If by bossing you mean playing at a high intensity and making tackles/fouls, then yes he did boss the game. However if you mean bossing the midfield to be like Kaka in the 1st half of the 2005 CL final (where they're creating endless chances for the strikers and making everyone else look very average), he wasn't close to 'bossing' the midfield.

SP you have it bad mate

I mean bossing as in dominating the game, controlling the game, forcing chelsea to barely have a shot, setting up torres with a brilliant pass Etc fucking etc

funny how people keep mentioning the CL.. a game he came away from as most people's MOTM afterwards.. no wait sorry.. the euroboard version of events places the comeback entirely on hamman. f@ck creating the goals, hamman did all the work

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING OVER THE SAME OLD $h!t

I sense someone is getting riled up.

For all his supposed 'bossing', you didn't exactly win the game, did you?

First half Gerrard was playing as a CM and was getting pissed all over by Kaka. No offence but Milan had it so easy that it looked like it could end up 5/6-0. Rafa brings on a CM who can actually defend at half time (i.e. Hamann), who actually stopped Kaka and allowed Liverpool to get on the front foot. Gerrard went into a free role and suddenly you were laughing. Good first goal, great strike for the second goal and a clever dive for the third. Gerrard will take most MOTM awards because he scored one and "assisted" another, but without Hamann on the field, Kaka was having a wonderful game.

I have a dream of England bossing a game in the World Cup with Gerrard in the team.

S4P wrote:

Luis wrote:Styles apolagised meaning it was 1-0 really!!

By this logic can we conclude the following:

AC Milan 3-2 Liverpool

Everton 1-0 Liverpool

?

all the decisions were correct bar the Kuyt one and the last minute Lescott therefore it should have been 4-2 to us because voronin and babel should have scored anyway!!

COTR wrote:SP what you are really doing here is criticising rafa for not starting with the right tactics to stop kaka

when he changed the formation to stop kaka at halftime it worked and gerrard then was the major contributor to one of the greatest comebacks in football history

so you are right. it was all rafa's fault in the first half for getting outwitted by ancellotti

S4P wrote:

COTR wrote:SP what you are really doing here is criticising rafa for not starting with the right tactics to stop kaka

when he changed the formation to stop kaka at halftime it worked and gerrard then was the major contributor to one of the greatest comebacks in football history

so you are right. it was all rafa's fault in the first half for getting outwitted by ancellotti

glad you agree

Luis wrote:

S4P wrote:

Luis wrote:Styles apolagised meaning it was 1-0 really!!

By this logic can we conclude the following:

AC Milan 3-2 Liverpool

Everton 1-0 Liverpool

?

all the decisions were correct bar the Kuyt one and the last minute Lescott therefore it should have been 4-2 to us because voronin and babel should have scored anyway!!

So a dive outside the box = a penalty + a red card (2 game changing decisions).

The 2nd pen is fair enough, but you may not have got it had you not got the first one (silly logic I know, but you're saying that we may not have drawn had we not got the Malouda 'pen').

The 2 Everton pens were also pens too.

As for the bold comment, I can give you 100 examples last year of moments where we should've scored.

It was a red card though, pen or not, last man!

Luis wrote:It was a red card though, pen or not, last man!

I thought the debate was over whether it was a foul. I thought it was a dive personally.