The Soccer Blog: Matchday: Liverpool v. Arsenal

By: Ed | April 17th, 2011
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Kickoff from the Emirates at 1600 GMT, 11:00am EST.

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Match live on Sky Sports 1 in England and Fox Soccer Channel in the US.

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Liverpool:

Reina
Flanagan Carragher Skrtel Aurelio
Kuyt Lucas Spearing Meireles
Carroll Suarez

Bench: Gulacsi, Cole, Kyrgiakos, Shelvey, Ngog, Maxi, Robinson

Same as Monday, and probably Liverpool’s best chance at taking the match to Arsenal. As others have rightfully pointed out, it’s a much different prospect than City at Anfield—partly because you know Arsenal will actually give a shit, but partly because there’s quality in their front line and midfield that won’t be so prone to getting overrun. You have to be excited for John Flanagan; the start in front of the Kop on Monday was special in its own right, and now making the eleven away to one of the marquee venues against the second-place team in league. Not much time for sentimentalism, though, so let’s hope he’s up to the task again. On the whole, I’d guess we’re all just hoping for, at the very least, a repeat of Monday’s approach. The result wouldn’t hurt, either.

Arsenal:

Szczesny
Eboue Koscielny Djourou Clichy
Diaby Wilshere
Walcott Fabregas Nasri
Van Persie

Bench: Lehmann, Gibbs, Squillaci, Arshavin, Song, Chamakh, Bendtner

Some Related Liverpool Posts:Match Preview: Liverpool v. Arsenal, 04.17.11Match Preview: Liverpool v. Sunderland, 03.20.11Match Preview: Liverpool v. Manchester City, 04.11.11Matchday: Liverpool v. BlackburnMatch Preview: Liverpool v. Everton, 01.16.11

Category: Matchday Posts, Miscellaneous, Premier League

Tags: Andy Carroll, Dirk Kuyt, Fabio Aurelio, Jamie Carragher, Jay Spearing, John Flanagan, Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool v. Arsenal, Lucas, Luis Suarez, Martin Škrtel, Matchday Posts, Miscellaneous, Pepe Reina, Premier League, Raúl Meireles
Tweet « Match Preview: Liverpool v. Arsenal, 04.17.11 | Home | Liverpool 1, Arsenal 1: Just an Average Draw »Georgedb1Good game fellas - hard earned point, unfortunately only getting you minimally closer to Europe. Injury-wise it was a little costly, I think though. United win in the end. Cheers and see you next season.

-AFCjohnno re: All of you saying you wish we'd have lost. What kind of shit attitude is that? I'm not conflicted in any way. We drew in spectacular fashion, we harried the shit out of that normally smooth gooner team, and so what if manure wins the title? A point won. Next year is our year, we'll be back on level terms with manfucku. My only concern is for Jamie. I hope he's okay.

stop whining.
YNWAKC"But the drama was still not over. Ten minutes into stoppage time Andre Marriner again pointed to the penalty spot - this time after a handball from Eboue."

Wait did I see wrong? I thought it was a foul on Lucas not a handball. Not that I'm complaining but I missed that completely.NoelHalf of Liverpool's injured to start the match. Other half goes off injured during the match. On the road, at the Emirates, with Arsenal supposedly going for the title. Lucas and Spearing outnumbered and largely left to cover Arsenal's midfield three all match.

And the best you can fucking do is have a go at Dalglish? Great work, Wenger.mattnormally i like wenger just for his philosophy but today he disappointed me. kind of a whiny little "pansy" for lack of a better term. kenny is hilarious telling him to f*** off, thoroughly deserved.alabamabobIf I was a Frenchie, I'd act like that too.EdKenny Dalglish owns Arsene Wenger.alabamabobSoft at best. Soft at best. Kenny telling Wenger to f*ck off was priceless.Justin BonebrakeI missed it! What happened?paulWenger went over the the Liverpool area complaining the foul on Lucas wasn't a penalty, KK said it was, Wenger claimed to have bionic vision or something so KK told him where to go. Funny that their pen was equally just a soft.Lishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v...NoelFabregas dives to get Arsenal the win so Lucas goes and earns a pair of dubious penalties in the 100th odd minute for Kuyt to convert to a draw after in the 92nd minute I would have been mildly disappointed with a draw that helps nobody one bit but now I just don't fucking know and screw commas they're overrated.ChrisLFCThe Wenger/Dalglish confrontation was most excellent.LucasLeiva21According to my roommate and his lip-reading ability, Dalglish apparently told Wenger to "piss off." So, long live the King!

Mr Wenger: another Frenchman conducting himself with classEdWhat the fuck just happenedChrisLFCNo clue....but I think I liked it.
KCI'm conflicted. Liverpool deserve that point for working so hard but Arsenal's lost has severely dented their hopes for the title and I'd much rather them then anyone else in the Top 4 to win.

But I can't say I wasn't beaming with happiness when Kuyt got that penalty in :DRussellRmy feelings exactly... i never want to see 'pool lose but with the pk at the end id almost rather have arsenal have picked up the points and won the title. too bad they couldnt have beaten blackpool or sunderland or something. sooo conflicted. oh well though, props for the young lads (minus spearing at the end of course) doing so well todayRed2deathWow. How does Fergie write these scripts?LisThe football gods had to make up for yesterday.LucasLeiva21this is mildly absurdalabamabobPepe = Legend.LucasLeiva21Reina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please don't leave me.KCIf Pepe leaves I think I will actually cry and be devastatedLucasLeiva21If Pepe leaves, I'm going to grow female genitalia, collapse on a couch sobbing over a gallon of Vanilla ice cream, and develop a curious addiction for "Sex and the City." So in other words, that can't happenEdAbout those banks of four...NoelBringing on Bendtner seems to have done wonders for Liverpool.alabamabobThe Enigma wrapped inside a conundrum that is Bendtner. The man is talented, but if he had half the work rate of Dirk Kuyt or even Suarez and he would lead the EPL in scoring.alabamabobSo Carroll off tactically or just precautionary?NoelWould've preferred Maxi for Carroll to let Meireles move inside and take some of the pressure off Lucas and Spearing, who've run themselves into the ground, but another midfielder's probably for the best in any case.alabamabobThe only way to say it was Carra got knocked the f*ck out. He was certainly unconscious before he hit the deck. Likely he doesn't know what day it is nor where he is. Hopefully he'll be alright in a few hours.
NoelCarragher's injured... let's show shots of Mister Ferguson in the crowd.

Also, that looked unpleasant.EdMy god this match is unforgiving. Carragher out cold, Carroll only just back on after looking like he seriously messed up his leg parts.alabamabobI think carroll is ok, just tweaked the knee a bit. I suspect he's fine.LucasLeiva21Dammit, Andy.alabamabobFirst half thoughts from Alabama:
1) Nice day.
2) Aurelio made it one game + 20 minutes... typical. I'm fine with using Robinson and Flanno for the rest of the season, or at least until Johsnon/kelly are fit. But even still they're not playing poorly. Robinson is about 1/4 step behind Walcott and thats nothing to be ashamed of.
3) Arsenal maintain control very well, and the way to break their stranglehold on the game is with the counterattack. We're not playing well with that in mind.
4) Passing... oh. my. ever-lovin-god. If we could complete a pass we would have some better chances.
5) Suarez/Carroll must not get frustrated. It's happening all ready, and needs to stop

I do enjoy that King Kenny threw his arm around Robinson and said "go get 'em tiger". Some small words from the King would certainly inspire me.kylemaxi looked to be warming up, do you think they ll bring him in at the half to see if he can get something going....I was thinking he might come on for spearing, sliding meireles back and letting suarez play in the hole behind carroll?mattreal excited to attack towards the other linesman in the 2nd half. the one at our attacking end has been truly magical in his decisionsMikeyCDid Suarez skip training when they went over passing this week?!

This first half seems ominous at best...LucasLeiva21Mr Daglish, a polite suggestion:

-------------Carroll-----
Suarez------Meireles--------Kuyt
--------Spearing-----Lucas---------
Young guy---Skrtel--old guy-----young guy

Can't be worse.EdThat's about what they've shifted to, and it's apparently thrown off Suarez's equilibrium.mattquite the officiating crew today. hard to find anyone with less credibility than andre marriner. he even sucks in football managerCAPoetAs much as i like Aurelio.....he get's injured FAAAAR toooo often. Should probably sell him for something that isn't made of glass.NoelWell, fuck it, might as well play a fullback at fullback and see what happens.mattgod dammit.mattflanno and robinson are both still in the "awkward stage" smack dab in the middle of puberty. europa is still pretty far down the yellow brick road so it's nice to see what we have in the youngsters. that being said, noel and ed have you thought about creating a donation page on the site? the "fabio coentrao fund" would be much appreciatedEdWho had Aurelio at 20'?

Fuck.mattya that might be fun to have sort of a like a superbowl bracket with numbers. anyone who gets above the 30 min mark is screwed but even stillChrisLFCYou missed the 20 min call for Fabio by one game.NoelAurelio. Down. Son of a diddley.EdBright enough start, getting forward in numbers, not completely withdrawn.EdI take it back.Noel"Bright enough start." Right, about that...ChrisLFCWe're living on the edge here...and not in a good way.Jay WrightHopefully Meireles is actually playing through the middle and Kuyt is playing further up the pitch in a three man front line, to actually put pressure on Clichy (or Sagna) rather than to just track the opposition full back into our own third...

Arsenal don't play with width up top anyway - matching up with them through the midfield is more important than maintaining two banks of four imomatti hope we go more 4-2-3-1 than 4-2-2-2. arsenal are soft but at home with more numbers in the center of the park they could pass it around us just like they like. here's hoping to meireles in the center!StiffLet's fuck shit up.AdamEd nailed the team sheetblog comments powered by Disqus