Liverpool vs Arsenal - 9 April at 16.30

[Kevin D]

Must win game to keep our title hopes alive.

[A_S]

They've still got some PTSD to work through in this stadium.

 

They've got a cunt of a run coming up too, as if April at the top of the table isn't difficult enough! 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Watching how they play I just can't see how they don't slice us open all over the place. What a fucking switcharound this season is, Arsenal look like a genuinely great side and we are as big a shit show you can hope to see. Even our best players seem to have lost all their technical ability.

[Jairzinho]

We're shit and I imagine they'll fucking batter us.

[Anubis]

On 05/04/2023 at 11:21, RedKnight said:

They have everything we don't right now. 

Bad AIDS?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 05/04/2023 at 07:32, Pidge said:

Last time we played at anfield we won 7-0, mad that it was only six years ago.

I'd settle for 6-0 this time.

 

We need points. Nothing else matters. Just get these beat, Reds.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 05/04/2023 at 11:21, RedKnight said:

They have everything we don't right now. 

An alleged rapist in midfield?

[No2]

We have lost 1 league game in front of our fans in 6 years. Some perspective needed here.

[diamondjoe]

It's Arsenal and Arsenal are gonna Arsenal. 

Fucking sanctimonious wankers. I fucking hate these pricks with their beautiful game and cries of Hooof. Like their shit doesn't stink. Cunts. And that little inbred cunt Arshavin. What a cunt he was. 

4-0

[VladimirIlyich]

Arsenal have lost to Everton this season and been twatted by City at home. They are having a stellar season when most other clubs are having a shitty one. I wouldn't be surprised to see them blow the title either. That said,I have no idea which Liverpool team will turn up.

[Scott_M]

Back and trying to injury each other…

 

[Guest]

11 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

An alleged rapist in midfield?

You could make a case for Keita raping Liverpool FC.

[Guest]

Smash them like the last home game. 7-0 would be a good half time score.

[Scott_M]

14 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

You could make a case for Keita raping Liverpool FC.

Maybe not raped us but he’s definitely fucked us. 

[Scott_M]

[aws]

It’s an omen! 

[Scott_M]

57 minutes ago, aws said:

It’s an omen! 

 

I think we can do it, I'm unconvinced we will.

 

I'll believe when Alisson nods in the winner at Leicester.

[Trumo]

After an awful display at City last weekend followed by a somewhat fortunate goalless draw at Chelsea in midweek, we welcome the league leaders to Anfield. Arsenal have shades of Liverpool 2013/14 and Leicester 2015/16 about them this season. Players who’d previously been written off suddenly finding themselves in great form, a midfielder who has been one of the stars of the season, a South American forward who looks a real threat in every game, a young English livewire who runs like a T-Rex but is capable of making and taking chances, and an injury-prone centre forward signed from a trophy-winning team who has given them a dynamism in attack. AFTV must be boring as fuck right now as they get to enjoy a team well placed to win a surprise league title this season. It was much better when they aired their thoughts and opinions on the latest disappointment, much to the amusement of other clubs’ fans. Anyway:

 

Control. Love of the game. Urgency. Bravery. Style. Heart. Organisation. Power. Tactical flexibility. Yer ma.

 

I don’t ask for much.

 

Last season’s corresponding fixture in November 2021 saw the Reds completely dismantle the Gunners. Again. We had become accustomed to this, scoring goals for fun against one of the flakiest teams in the division. Ramsdale had had to resort to some desperate last-ditch goalkeeping to thwart Sadio and Mo early on, but he was powerless to stop Sadio from planting a free header into the far corner following a deep free kick from Trent. We were dominant but only led 1-0 at the break. Into the second half and, after initially winning the ball off Mo tight to the right touchline, Arsenal full back Tavares carried the ball out and played a loose pass across the edge of his own penalty area, right to Diogo in acres of space. He took the ball into the box, put an Arsenal defender on his arse with a neat shimmy, and then rounded the sprawling Ramsdale to roll the ball into an empty net. 2-0 and we took our cue to swarm the Arsenal goal, creating chance after chance. The third goal duly arrived and again it was a work of art. Ali’s lofted pass to Robbo near halfway was headed onwards into Diogo as Sadio began to set off down the left. Diogo’s brilliant header set the Senegal man free and he raced into the box before squaring to an unmarked Mo to volley into the net from just a few yards out. We could take our foot off the gas and see the game out, or we could look for more goals. We sort of did both, and another intricate bit of pass-and-move freed Trent who squared to an unmarked Taki at the back post. Taki had only just entered the field as a sub. It was great stuff and we were flying. 4-0 it finished.

 

 

Cast your mind back to the early-to-mid 60s. Alf Ramsey’s England would soon be hosting the World Cup in 1966, and the music scene was full of twenty-somethings making a splash on both sides of the pond. Live football was still a rarity, and the BBC looked for a new audience of football fans who could enjoy highlights far removed from the old Pathé newsreels. Even back then, football was a sure-fire way to get TV viewers. The very first Match Of The Day saw Liverpool take on Arsenal at Anfield in August 1964. Everton fans would probably claim it as a first via their usual mental gymnastics. Liverpool won the game 3-2 thanks to a goal from Sir Roger and two by Gordon Wallace. Wallace’s second was to prove the winner after Arsenal had clawed their way back into the match with goals from future Liverpool stalwart Geoff Strong and another by Joe Baker. Back then, the main camera was in the Kemlyn so the Kop is to the left of the screen.

 

 

The big film making waves in August 1964? Why it was none other than A Hard Day’s Night, starring four fellas who were fairly popular in the States at the time. It’s basically an amusing caper mixing reality with fiction, a cracking soundtrack and a blatant cash-in on the band’s immense popularity. At that point, before all the psychedelia and sound experimenting, The Beatles’ signature sound was at the forefront of ‘Merseybeat’ which was at the forefront of the British invasion on US shores. Far from being a mere commercial cash-in though, it’s actually quite a good film that masks the fact these guys couldn’t act. They only really had to be themselves. Spice World it most definitely ain’t.

 

 

There’s a genuine fear that a lot of our players have given up on this season. That’s alarming at any time, but with 10 games still to play, we can only get one more point than Arsenal’s current total, and that’s if we win all 10 games. That’s how much we have fallen away this season. Attitude and application have gone AWOL this season, but I want the players to play like this matters and show plenty of concentration, composure, creativity and clinical finishing. The shitness has to stop somewhere, so come on Reds, at least make me want to consider watching a clip or two of AFTV afterwards.

[Aventus]

Very important game. If we can get a decent win then it might light a fire under the arses of a few players which could see us through til the end of the season. Top 4 could still be on. 

 

Lose and I will have officially given up on this season and won't give a shit where we finish. 

[Baltar]

It's hard to believe that we've fallen so far behind fucking Arsenal in such a short space of time. It looks like our best available midfielder this weekend will be Harvey Elliot, and he would not even get on to Arsenal's bench. Depressing times.

[Scott_M]

Rock solid…

 

 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

[coachpotato]

Really should be along the lines of the City result, but I live in hope that out previous record against Arsenal will prevail.

If our players have any self worth, they’ll come steaming out of the blocks against these fuckers and dismantle them early on, and given they’re not Madrid, I doubt they’d come back if we got a couple of goals up.

Really never know what to expect from us these days though.

[beejay]

The earlier poster who said our remaining games are all about next season is partly right. Rather than playing like a team with nothing to play for, Klopp should have them motivated with the threat that they will be gone in the summer under his new revolution. 

 

I could put up with a few more defeats if we showed some signs of improvement in performance and a return to the team spirit and mentality of a Klopp managed side. 

 

Going from 7-0 v Man United at home to 0-1 v Bournemouth and 1-4 to Man C away is unacceptable. 

 

This season is strange because of the winter World Cup and it's not just us, there are others going through massive under achievement eg Leicester, West Ham, Chelsea. So we can give some of our lads who have served us proud before some slack, but the preparation for next season has to start now. 

[Red Phoenix]

I think this is the first game where I've given up on our chances of getting top 4. I think we can beat them though for whatever it's worth, maybe a run that gives us a chance for the Europa League or something.