Was a good game to watch, even for a non-neutral.Liverpool just really well organised, midfield giving little space and forcing us to play around them. Defence equally solid until the very end. In my view the problem Liverpool have is that going forward they have real problems keeping possession, there's a lot of long balls and misplaced passes leading to little danger.
Vorinin and Kuyt just two midfielders playing out of position, unwilling to shoot and not going to be regular goalscorers over an entire season. Crouch came on and was very dangerous, working Almunia and causing further unrest at set pieces.
Arsenal's midfield just wasn't up to much today. Rosicky and Eboue just looked a little lost first half, and it didn't improve. Cesc muted by Masch, and only Flamini managing to calm things down and start a passing move. We defended fine, but weren't really troubled all that much, only really long range efforts and set pieces until Gallas's block at the end.
Ade was poor, he was looking to be more of a catalyst of moves instead of just disrupting the defence and letting others make things happen.
I'm expecting an identical formation against Utd, hopefully we can look at today's game and work out some of the problems. Getting the wide players passing to Arsenal players would be a big improvement.
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