I wrote before last Saturday’s 3pm kick-off against West Brom that that was a ‘must-win’ game. That not only was it a minimum requirement that Liverpool win that game, but that it was done in style to send the team and fans into a tough – if sparse – November with confidence.
But if that was a game that the Reds simply had to win then the upcoming late evening Saturday match at the Emirates is of even more importance.
I’m not going to suggest for one second that Liverpool must win this top of the table (how nice does that feel to say, eh?) clash. In many ways, I’m sure most would be content with a draw at the home of the current in-form side in the Premier League but a win could be so important that it could very well act as a shift in the fortunes of the club.
It may well sound a little over-the-top to say, but a win against Arsenal would show that we were capable of winning the big ones. Sure, we beat Manchester United early in the season but those early games are always very much up in the air in terms of the outcomes. Now that we’re steadily approaching the 10th game of the season though, the table is really starting to take shape and once a side begins to build up a head of steam these top-four clashes can really define a season.
The Gunners last two fixtures have been perhaps their least convincing since the early season blip against Villa, with a home Champions League defeat to Borussia Dortmund followed by a largely unconvincing win away at Crystal Palace. Sure, they secured the win with 10 men but Palace were easily equals for most of the match and if they’d had even just one striker worth his wages they may well have made the extra man count.
But while form can easily change between games (although, it can give us hope) it is possible that Arsenal will have a slightly weakened side for the 5:30pm game, with a few players picking up knocks.
It would be senseless to concentrate on Arsenal though, something which has been our problem in recent years, and should really only think of ourselves. Given that we have the current best strike partnership in the country, are coming into the game with only one defeat in the last 17 league games and the almost certain possibility of the man who could make our current attack complete, Philippe Coutinho.
Arsenal are a great side, at present, and the addition of Ozil, form of Ramsey and new found defensive solidity have made them a much tougher prospect than we’ve been used to in recent years so the team will need to be prepared thoroughly but Liverpool are starting to come into their own and a fully-fit, in-form squad will give Brendan Rodgers plenty of options ahead of what, in 6 months time, we may be looking back at as an early season title clash and the re-start of great things for this great football club.
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am great lfc fan we need to win dis game to send msg to de world
We are going to win hands down.mark it down lfc 4 -arsenal 1.
AMEN OOOOO
arsenal wil,neva nd shal neva b a threat to us….we’re goin down to emirate with d strong motive to win nd we shal
with total focus we will wine arsenal..sure!
Go on and send a strong message that we can win the big teams unlike last season!
We Will win d match by God’s grace ynwa up liverpoolfc, Abuja fans union one love
@gentle i see u. Correct naija boy. liverpool all d way.
somebody plz tel me if arteta iz goin 2 play against lfc coz he wz given straight red card against palace if nt dn we are 90% sure of win nd i suggest we shld start wit dsame line up dat started against albion
arteta will play
arteta won’t be playing.its a straight red card,i wish lfc a successful outing,we gave them hell last season so i hope we can still do that,
Liverpool all the way
No doubt liverpool will take the *3 point .ynwa
may God help Liverpool
If God helps Liverpool god is working against Arsenal. Why would God choose sides.
God should help the poor and hungry first!
I don’t see this as a must win game at all.
Sure it would be great but you can’t expect to go to the home of a title rival, especially not one with an excellent midfield as Arsenal’s and win, unrealistic. Hopeful sure.
It would be great to win and in the infamous words of Keegan ‘I would really love it’.
For me this is a test and with tests you get to gage just how far you have come.
We could beat Arsenal then lose to some lower team. No point. I’d rather lose against AFC, play well in the game but then continue to beat the teams we should expect to beat.
If you lose our draw your big away games, hopefully reverse that when they come to Anfield, we still have a great shout.
A few of us getting carried away, me included, this has generally been the trait of past LFC teams, beat the big ones but not the smaller.
Beat the teams you should, compete against the best and with Rodgers at the helm, when the points are added up, fingers crossed we should be top four or better.
Ntin wil stop us cum saturday…YNWA!!!
With suarez and sturridge (SAS) infront. We are going to win this game.
@Gentle Chuks, wil lik2 knw more abt d Abj. Fans uniön cos am in Abj. Dis z my facebuk user name Benjamin Nwigwe, thnx nd Godblss…YNWA!!!
This is MY suggestion.
……………………………..mignolet…………………………..
……….traore……………..skertel……………agger………..
johnson………….lucas………………..shako………….aly
……………………………gerrard………………………………
…………….suarez……………………….sturridge………….
dont worry because we can score 2 goal in every game.
1. Don`t loose with top 5 team and we can get draw. if we win.. its a bonus.
2. Now we must see.. 2 month ago i was saying 20 game (60 point ) must win to UCL.
Vs Game no 10 ( arsenal) we must win or give they presure with 2 point behind. but
we must alert with chelsea and spurs. and we have 9 game more for half seasson.
3. In 10 more game i espect liverpool must win more 5 game because now we have win
6 game already.
4. But im very dispointed with game vs N.Castle because we missed very important 2
point there.
please…
dont make loose again with bottom team. if we loose in top 5 its a normal game. but liverpool are around 300 million team value. so what a problems??
get more 3 player in january for cover striker , deffensive mid and pacy winger/wide.
Agger is tryiing to be silly and madrid are probably smoking weeds to think we are going to give suarez for benzema and 20mill pounds… If they can’t waste £85mill, then suarez should be 100mill pounds.. Madrid should keep the dreams on, hahaha.. Fools… YNWA… Those * will lose come saturday
only 3 points and nothing more. Mignolet should be careful and do not conceded more than SaS scores.
3 points