Match Day Arsenal v Liverpool, Friday 22nd December 19:45

[SALTIRE]

Match chat.

 

[Benji]

I think there will be several goals, but not one for Sanchez because he's bored and wants to go home.

 

[Johnnyt]

i think if both play to their best its a draw, people will expect Liverpool to win with their forwards on fire but i'll say 2-2

hope to see Salah upset Wenger though

 

[SALTIRE]

Feeling confident since we've won the last three and just now they are even worse at the back than us. 3 - 1 to the Reds

 

[Pagnell]

Tight win to us.

2-3

 

[Bilo]

I feel Wenger decides this regardless of how we line up and play. Good lineup though with the front four back together.

 

[Pagnell]

The game needed a goal, scrappy but we'll take it.

0-1 Coutinho.

 

[Jockney]

This could and probably should be a cricket score. Arsenal look like a youth side.

 

[Super_horns]

Big miss ?

 

[Pagnell]

A goal up but strangely disappointed. We should be at least a couple up, more like three. Arsenal have been shocking, but still looked likely to score on occasion.

More goals in this.

 

[Pagnell]

Fuck me, what a break.

0-2 Salah.

21 goals and counting.

 

[Pagnell]

Only Liverpool could concede against the bag of shit that is Arsenal today.

1-2

 

[Super_horns]

Never dull these games!

 

[Pagnell]

Livid. Fucking joke.

 

[Pagnell]

Ridiculous. If that shitheap of defensive errors doesn't convince Klopp we need to sort the defence out nothing will and it's a lost cause. Sort it the fuck out for fuck sake. We should have been out of sight by half time, to have actually been losing at one point is inexcusable.

 

[Bilo]

What a fucking match that was. We were good and arsenal were effective

 

[Pagnell]

We were good in an attacking sense but not much else. No team that goes from 0-2 up to 3-2 down in 5 minutes can be defined as having played good. To draw that game is completely fucking inexcusable, Arsenal were shite, particularly before their first goal.

 

[SALTIRE]

Happy enough with the result the way it went and was going when we decided to start gifting them goals (it is the season of giving I suppose! ). More questions than answers (Migs and Mane were woeful tonight), but I'll take it as it keeps us ahead of them and in the top four.

 

[Pagnell]

Tonight was another prime example of why that shitshow of a keeper shouldn't be anywhere near a team with top half ambition, never mind top 4 or title challenging.

 

[SALTIRE]

Yeah and Cech was so much better...

 

[Pagnell]

I'm not sure what the fuck Cech having an unusually off game has to do with anything. But I guess you'll say anything to defend your golden boy. He's shit and not good enough for a team of Liverpool's ambition. Everyone bar you knows it. Deal with it.

 

[SALTIRE]

And you need to get a grip. This team is not competing for the title, but no one else is apart from City, so we are where we need to be. Getting a new keeper in will not change things this season. Karius will be installed as #1 next season, and with a new CB pairing in there and maybe more cover from Keita coming in, our defense will improve. Hold your horses.

 

[Pagnell]

So because we're not competing for the title we should accept that, after the manager having four windows to replace him, we still have a shit keeper between the sticks? Don't talk bollocks. Get a grip? Give me a fucking break.

We won't move anywhere if we don't make changes to improve things. And our number one weakness, even more so than the likes of Henderson as captain and Lovren in defence, is Mignolet.

And Karius as number one? God fucking help us, I'd sooner stick with the joke we already have.

 

[SALTIRE]

Has Mignolet improved under Klopp? Yes he has. Was he shit tonight? Yes he was. Every keeper has bad games, even De Gea and (especially) your beloved Lloris, along with Cech also tonight who is supposed to be a 'top top' keeper. Migs doesn't fit our system long term and will be dropped for Karius, whom you also have a stick up your arse about; you obviously haven't been watching his improvement in the CL campaign, or how excellent he was against WBA in the league last week. Is he the finished article? No, but he is improving a lot, and I for one am not like yourself ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I remember all too well Friedel.

You say we won't move anywhere if we don't make changes? You think Klopp doesn't realise that? He is no idiot and is clearly ambitious; and I'm sure his #1 priority is to help fix out the defense in the summer (and possibly in the coming January) after sorting out our attack, and tweaking the midfield.

You act as if we are a shite side Pags, in paroxysms of emotion when we drop points. We are far from the finished article, but I'm confident we are heading in the right direction. We'd have lost that game under Rodgers. Hopefully come the end of the summer window, we'll be in a better position to try and challenge the City behemoth.

 

[Pagnell]

Really, there is nothing to be gained from arguing with someone who seriously believes either Mignolet or Karius are good enough for a team that wants to go where we want to go so I'm bowing out.

 

[Liam_SWFC]

Best game I've seen this season, but my god what a shitshow of defending! If Liverpool put together a decent defence they'd be genuine contenders because going forward they are frightening.

 

[Blitzballer]

They need a new keeper also. Mignolet is shite

 

[JimJams]

Admit you are wrong on Mignolet Salts, come on. It's time. Your support of him as a Liverpool player is nice n all that but seriously it's like idolising a celebrity even after you find out theyve been fiddling with kids.
That Xhaka shot should never beat a premier league keeper.

 

[Pagnell]

Also, I'm not sure where this bullshit of my "beloved Lloris" came from. The only comment I've made about Lloris is that he's better than Mignolet. Which is a bit like saying the smell of a freshly cut flower is more agreeable than that of dog shit.

 

[rudebwoyben]

I was at this match and the change in atmosphere among the Arsenal fans from “they’re a bunch of wankers who don’t want it” to “We love you Arsenal” was funny to behold.
Another thing that struck was me was that Liverpool played in a much more structured way than Arsenal who were basically trying to wing it.
It was a pleasure to see how good Coutinho is in the flesh, the quality of his passing and crossing comes across much more vividly.
That Xhaka goal...when it happened my first reaction was that there must have surely been a deflection on the way as how on earth could Mignolet be beaten by it?!