The Game

I will not lie to you, dear friends, we got lucky.

Liverpool should have killed us off in the first half, a shocking, depressing and negative first 45 minutes after which I told all those in the chat room that only luck could have helped us out of trouble, and luck accepted my invitation to put us level. And if luck was required to get back in the game, magic was needed to go in front, and Arshavin provided just that.

Andrey Arshavin, Liverpool vs Arsenal

We’re 100% back in the title race of course but problems are still there and they may come back to haunt us, starting from Wednesday.

Below are the ratings. Easy are not this time as considering how different they were, I could have easily given the players two ratings, one for the first half and one for the second.

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Player Ratings

Almunia: 3 – So, so insecure. When high balls are thrown in the penalty area, he always makes a step forward and one backwards, no idea why.

Traore: 6,5 – A very, very solid performance, he’s clearly improving game after game.

Gallas: 7 – Considering all that was thrown at him in the dying minutes, he coped well.

Vermaelen: 8 – Immense performance, especially in the final part of the game.

Sagna: 6,5 – Not the best of games for Bacary, especially when going forward where he failed to provide what we needed in the first half. He did however provided security at the back, as he always does after all.

Denilson: 4,5 – Misplaced passes, attempted penalty, attempted red card, oh boy, when you think he can’t be more shocking, he comes up with those first 45 minutes. He did recompose in the second half when luckily it wasn’t too late.

Song: 6 – Like Denilson he raised his game in the second half, but in the first half he was very poor, keeping the ball in his feet way too much.

Fabregas: 6 – A very anonymous game from the captain, who failed to stand up for the test, especially in the first half, like the rest after all.

Nasri: 6,5 – Considering all, it wasn’t easy for the wingers to create something today and he in fact saw very little of the ball, but was very active on both wings.

Walcott: 4 – I think he still needs two, maybe three games to be back Theo. He timed his runs well but when he had the ball, he failed to make an impact.

Arshavin: 8 – I don’t care that he was totally anonymous before the goal, these are the sort of goals that win matches and win leagues.

(Subs)
Diaby: No Vote – Very little involved, made mistakes when he did.

Silvestre and Ramsey: No Vote – Too little for both of them.

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