Arsenal v Liverpool mnf 8pm sky sports 1

SlickRic

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Excellent work from Arsenal to keep the news so quiet. Rodgers brought the bus to be parked. There is no way he would have played that team if he had have known.

Liverpool should probably sacrifice Can or Lucas, tell them to get "injured" in the warm up and throw on an attacking player.

Are you insane?

That is the Liverpool team that should be on the pitch every week. Lucas sitting and 2 MFs either side who can run and support.

Henderson in for Can would be my only change for our best team (and Sakho for Lovren).

glued

Really interesting to see how Coutinho and Firmino get on together. Have Rodgers played them both centrally for Liverpool so far? Both are excellent attacking mids and to accommodate them both would be an interesting set up. If either play out wide it's a bit of a waste.

cson

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Excellent work from Arsenal to keep the news so quiet. Rodgers brought the bus to be parked. There is no way he would have played that team if he had have known.

Liverpool should probably sacrifice Can or Lucas, tell them to get "injured" in the warm up and throw on an attacking player.

Phenomenal work to keep that so quiet.

But worrying nonetheless to have to use both your 3rd and 4th choice centre halves in a game like this. Big test of the depth of the squad tbh.

Hidalgo

Happy to see 3 in midfield for Liverpool as opposed just a duo in the opening 2 games.
The injuries to Arsenal ups Liverpool's chances.

Still take a draw though

AdamD

Gonna be watching this behind the couch. I rate both Gabriel and Chambers but they've never played together before and are inexperienced in the PL.

Osmosis Jones

Excited to see Can play in a position where he won't have as many defensive responsibilities. Between him and Milner they should be able to put enough pressure on the opposition too.

Wasn't confident about this game but after seeing both line-ups I think we have a chance.

Washington Irving

Captain Jimmy to lead Liverpool to a historic 2-0 victory.

cson

batistuta9 wrote: »

wasn't record i was going on. thought walcott could've got a start against a side who'll not sit back the whole game.
giroud's in though

They were never going to attack us though - although that might change after the CB news.

Btw looking at your graphic there; our bench has 154 international caps! Be even more if Arteta was from any other country than Spain. Been a while since we've had anything like that to call on.

I would take a draw right now.

Going to be watching this behind the couch...

tayto lover

AdamD wrote: »

Gonna be watching this behind the couch. I rate both Gabriel and Chambers but they've never played together before and are inexperienced in the PL.

Debuchy has played well for us at CB before.
Why is he not in there tonight. Doesn't make sense.

Rayne Wooney

Fascinating insight on Sky of the Curious Case of why Arsene Wenger lost his Mojo

Think I heard net spend at one point

Ajfunky

Why no Monreal or Debuchy for chambers? Gibbs can clearly cover left back, monreal could cover cb as shown well last year. This is a nervy one, but the only consolation is hopefully gabriel and chambers have been the 'B' team pairing so have played a bit with each other.

Gabriel, just tie your shoelaces to Benteke's when yous shake hands, should be grand.

Quazzie

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Fascinating insight on Sky of the Curious Case of why Arsene Wenger lost his Mojo

Think I heard net spend at one point

Do you not think the restricted net spend was a factor in why Arsenal haven't challenged for a title in so long?

quarryman

Liverpool's lucky results to end tonight...

3-1 to Arsenal.

GreNoLi

4-1 to Arse, they have by far and away the better first team and squad and I expect them to start putting a substantial winning run together.

Oranage2

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Fascinating insight on Sky of the Curious Case of why Arsene Wenger lost his Mojo

Think I heard net spend at one point

Fascinating, insight and Sky are three words that just don't go together.

Harry Palmr

quarryman wrote: »

Liverpool's lucky results to end tonight...

3-1 to Arsenal.

Ah look who it is! How are Leeds doing?

Rayne Wooney

Henry making no sense at all

5starpool

I wonder will Liverpool play 2 up top with a diamond behind? Probably not the game for it, but I'd like to see them do it.

AdamD

Nevilles very irritating tonight

marklazarcovic

mother of fcuk but henry is hopeless at the tv stuff

Rayne Wooney

Quazzie wrote: »

Do you not think the restricted net spend was a factor in why Arsenal haven't challenged for a title in so long?

Yes I do

Grayditch

quarryman wrote: »

Liverpool's lucky results to end tonight...

Gonna be tough when that streak of 1 lucky win ends, alright.

Johner

Henry talks some amount of shite.

Turtwig

marklazarcovic wrote: »

mother of fcuk but henry is hopeless at the tv stuff

Neville's not helping. Words to thierry mean slightly different to him because english is not his first language. Arrogance is much more negative thing to him than it is to Neville. Thierry is ideological and believes in the importance of a philosophy he's just not expressing that all too well. In part, because Neville isn't actually fleshing out the concept with him. They're just disagreeing. Pity as it was super interesting up to the point of the midfielder pairs.

wandatowell

That injury news from Arsenal is a disaster.

(wasn't too confident over the first choice partnership)

Chambers to be ripped up and thrown aside.

Hollister11

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Henry making no sense at all

He is getting paid 5k for this.

Nib

"Why did that Arsenal team not become a dynasty?"

Henry: "I think the stadium."

He's as comical as Rodgers when there's a TV camera in front of him.

That_Guy

Hollister11 wrote: »

He is getting paid 5k for this.

Is it not 5m?

Washington Irving

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Ah look who it is! How are Leeds doing?

Thought he might have been more sympathetic given one of their own is captaining tonight, but alas..

Trond

Really hope Henry on this is a one off, hes brutal.

mrsoundie

I wonder will M!ck^ be around this evening, might need cheering up.

SlickRic

Oranage2 wrote: »

Fascinating, insight and Sky are three words that just don't go together.

This is just clichéd at this stage.

It's cool to slag off Sky, I get that, but honestly, the likes of the MNF discussions are often fascinating and insightful. Neville and Carragher aren't two-bob talking heads. They do know their shít more often than not.

Idioteque

In fairness...it's better than if they spent the whole time agreeing with each other

Harry Palmr

Nib wrote: »

"Why did that Arsenal team not become a dynasty?"

Henry: "I think the stadium."

He's as comical as Rodgers when there's a TV camera in front of him.

I reckon he might have been referring to the costs and restrictions of the move to Ashburton Grove.

quarryman

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Ah look who it is! How are Leeds doing?

Unbeaten in the league mate.

Thanks for asking.

That_Guy

Ed Chamberlain starting for Arsenal in midfield. :pac:

Osmosis Jones

Having a front 3 of 9, 10 and 11 is really satisfying.

Rayne Wooney

Not sure if Henry is completely useless or if he's got a problem explaining what he thinks because of inexperience or whatever

If it's the latter Gary and Jamie cross examining him at times probably isn't helping

blueser

"Brendan Rodgers talking about dominating space rather than possession; what's he talking about Jamie?"
"I don't know!"

LuckyLloyd

Lucas in? Firminho and Coutinho to float around behind Beneteke? Arsenal with a few injuries?

This almost feels like...hope?

Professional Griefer

2-1 to Liverpool, benteke to lurk out.

batistuta9

cson wrote: »

They were never going to attack us though - although that might change after the CB news.

Btw looking at your graphic there; our bench has 154 international caps! Be even more if Arteta was from any other country than Spain. Been a while since we've had anything like that to call on.

they'd have played a bit, not a shut up shop job. girouds got a good record coming off the bench too. walcott would've tired them out as well, similar to sanogo did in fa cup games before being sub for giroud.

Turtwig

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Not sure if Henry is completely useless or if he's got a problem explaining what he thinks because of inexperience or whatever

If it's the latter Gary and Jamie cross examining him at times probably isn't helping

I think he needs more coaching in English, particularly colloquialisms and concepts. He seems to misunderstand some concepts at times and unfortunately for him people don't really clarify that to him either. When it's clear he understood the concept, he's not actually that bad. Rather decent actually.

Garry's such a pragmatist though. No time for apparent bullsh1t and tbh, you can't really fault him too much. It's the people who signed Henry to the contract should ensure that he's well versed in everyday English for more technical and tactical conversations.

Think Jamie's coming off the best tonight. Gary sometimes overdoes his criticism of other's ideas.

5starpool

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Lucas in? Firminho and Coutinho to float around behind Beneteke? Arsenal with a few injuries?

This almost feels like...hope?

Ah don't worry. We'll defend naively and lose by a few. That'll get your knives sharpened again Lloyd.

Jesus Wept

hope the team put in a great effort as a tribute to mario

brevity

https://twitter.com/laurencekinlan/status/635886480586604544

Harry Palmr

Do it to annoy Piers Morgan.

5starpool

Benteke might well be able to dominate the Arsenal CB's, but we have to get the ball to him properly first, and I think that'll prove to be a problem.

LuckyLloyd

5starpool wrote: »

Ah don't worry. We'll defend naively and lose by a few. That'll get your knives sharpened again Lloyd.

I'd rather we win tbh