PODCAST: Arsenal 0 Liverpool 2 - Match Reaction

[tlw content]

No Van Dijk, no Salah, no problem. The Reds advanced to the next round after a smash and grab win against a profligate Arsenal side who should have been out of sight by half time, but if you let Klopp's mentality monsters stay in the game then this is what happens. 

 

TLW Editor Dave Usher is joined by Paul Natton and Julian Richards to revel in one of the more satisfying wins of the season so far, and to look ahead to the midweek semi final against Fulham.

 

 

 

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[Dan Vito Corleone]

Agree that Mr Brooks was generally very good yesterday. 

[lifetime fan]

If Ben White spent as much time on improving his game as he does sunbeds then he wouldn’t be called Ben Shite. 

[Pete]

Ironic White is his surname really.  

[UnwelcomeinPeru]

A great listen for the dog walk, as usual, regarding Arsenal's keepers, is Raya on loan at Arsenal? I thought he might be (for some reason, maybe a FFP thing)?

[deiseach]

Any time I see/hear a discussion of Ten Jarg's fate at Man Utd, I always think on how there is only one man out there who could whip that dysfunctional club into shape. You can add Arsenal's goalkeeping woes to that discussion. I'm sure Dave was pretty phlegmatic about Liverpool's goalkeeping situation before Alisson on the basis that there wasn't any superstar out there who could transform the fortunes of the Reds. Well, there was and he has. Good luck to Arsenal finding anyone in the same class.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

24 minutes ago, UnwelcomeinPeru said:

A great listen for the dog walk, as usual, regarding Arsenal's keepers, is Raya on loan at Arsenal? I thought he might be (for some reason, maybe a FFP thing)?

 

Yeah it's currently a loan - I think they've agreed a future fee. 

[Code]

My mate who support Blackburn say its a only a loan the first year, that way part of the fee wont end up at Blackburn. 

[Paul]

Heard on another pod before that Arsenal paid a £3m loan fee and are basically obliged to pay another £27m to buy him in the summer. 

[Chris]

Pepe Reina gets off really lightly when it comes to our bad goalie discussions. There was 2-year spell before he left where he just didn't save a fucking thing. He might have been the actual worst goalie I've seen for us in that respect.

[KMD7]

25 minutes ago, Chris said:

Pepe Reina gets off really lightly when it comes to our bad goalie discussions. There was 2-year spell before he left where he just didn't save a fucking thing. He might have been the actual worst goalie I've seen for us in that respect.

 

 

[stringvest]

Got to be more like 

 

[stringvest]

1 minute ago, stringvest said:

Got to be more like 

 

 

TLW’s own Pine Superhero relaxing in the sauna.

[Code]

1 hour ago, Chris said:

Pepe Reina gets off really lightly when it comes to our bad goalie discussions. There was 2-year spell before he left where he just didn't save a fucking thing. He might have been the actual worst goalie I've seen for us in that respect.

Thats a crazy take, as Ive shows on here before.

 

Not bothering picking it apart one more time, its too long ago now. 

[razor]

Great listen again - thank you!

 

Just one point.  I think I would have been a bit annoyed if we hadn't have scored the second goal.  The performance would have definitely come under the "smash and grab" category at 0-1, but that hilarious second probably elevated it to "professional" performance.

 

I say hilarious because I haven't laughed more than I've cheered a goal as much since Bobby's seventh last March.

[Josef Svejk]

Pickdale is rubbish. The amount of media coverage over him being dropped would almost suggest that he's an England international... 

[Chris]

44 minutes ago, Code said:

Thats a crazy take, as Ive shows on here before.

 

Not bothering picking it apart one more time, its too long ago now. 

 

I'm not really fussed whether you do or not. Bloke was fat and garbage in the last years of his contract. A total fucking loser.

[Josef Svejk]

7 minutes ago, Chris said:

 

I'm not really fussed whether you do or not. Bloke was fat and garbage in the last years of his contract. A total fucking loser.

 

Was he not outspoken about Cancer and Aids? 

 

Unlike certain local heroes? 

[Creator Supreme]

2 hours ago, Chris said:

Pepe Reina gets off really lightly when it comes to our bad goalie discussions. There was 2-year spell before he left where he just didn't save a fucking thing. He might have been the actual worst goalie I've seen for us in that respect.

Yep, fucker went down in instalments in his last couple of years, the fact that when we signed him Mignolet was an improvement says it all.

 

12 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

 

Was he not outspoken about Cancer and Aids? 

 

Unlike certain local heroes? 

And then he went and spoiled it all,

By saying something stupid,

Like 'I'm a fascist'.

[Code]

1 hour ago, Chris said:

 

I'm not really fussed whether you do or not. Bloke was fat and garbage in the last years of his contract. A total fucking loser.

Yes obviously.

 

In fact he was so poor that the members of TLW, YNWA, 6CM, Est1892, Scouser Tommy and Irish Kop had him down as number 4 in the player of the season game for 12/13 that Morse had going on several different forums back in those days.

 

The majority  could obviously have overestimated his performances all season, or they knew that 17 clean sheets did not come by themselves and judged him on his actual performances instead of some fucked up myth.

 

[Code]

1 hour ago, Creator Supreme said:

Yep, fucker went down in instalments in his last couple of years, the fact that when we signed him Mignolet was an improvement says it all.

 

Mignolet would hardly be an improvement on a fucking training cone. 

[Red Shift]

Great pod guys. Proper daylight robbery. Ali on the ropes and all that.

 

hehehe

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ducsoccer/permalink/1409611403282709/?

[dave u]

Agree with Chris. Reina was fucking shit towards the end. Tacked on too much mass, sacrificed flexibility.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

14 hours ago, Chris said:

Pepe Reina gets off really lightly when it comes to our bad goalie discussions. There was 2-year spell before he left where he just didn't save a fucking thing. He might have been the actual worst goalie I've seen for us in that respect.

 

He was a very good goalkeeper for 4 or 5 years. At one point he was probably the best in the league in fact. But he then fell off a cliff, aided and abetted by some weight gain. But in terms of worst goalkeepers, he's not in the same league as Westerveld (I know I won't get universal agreement here) and that David James dipshit. 

 

And seeing as his name has come up - Mignolet was what Mignolet was. He was a good goalkeeper who was a level below what we required and was ill fitting because he was not the best with his feet and football had very much become about goalkeepers using the ball. However, he's not even close to the conversation for worst. Given that we signed him to do a job that he wasn't particularly well set up to do, I think history should judge Mignolet reasonably kindly. 

[No2]

Great Pod lads. Interesting numbers I heard elsewhere that may allay some fears over 4 competitionls, Arsenal have 8 players that have played more minutes than any of our players. On average their starting 11 have 21% more minutes in the legs than our equivalent. Despite all the games we're actually better placed than previous years, the europa league has been huge in this respect.