Pretty exciting game for a neutral...ya, i agree Ireland was offside, we reallllllllllllly need video technology la.

i wonder when will Rafa finally realized that his defending-set-pieces tactic this season is a scheisse! .. zonal marking... no player guarded the posts... try to quickly set up offside trap after second ball... and some other annoying things.. it's not about individual error but the system itself. well enaf complaining...
it took 4 years for Rafa to change his rotation policy, hopefully it won't take that long for this..

come on la win the game laaaaaaa. sigh..

What goes around comes around...For all the taunting and laughing in this thread from Arsenal fans, what a night for them...

skrtel..skrtel...what happen to u?, maybe he need to grow his hair back..

This post has been edited by ELm_ELm: Nov 22 2009, 01:10 AM

Kuyt played badly today..

Kuyt looks tired in the last 2-3 games... moral and confidence of the players are very low rite now....

I don't think so. He was one of the few players working really hard. Yea, I admit his work rate yesterday was somewhat lower than his usual standard, but he didn't play badly.

This just sums up my analysis for the game.
Different fans have different views about who played badly or good last night.
And now im in confusion already on who played good or not.

for the last night game.. our two goal conceded because mistake by Skrtel..

14 Minutes extended highlights

HERE

I can see the lads did try but once again, it is not our day... we really need to start winning again.. these draws are not helping us much

I really dont understand why rafa wont bring Aquaman in..
he looks really dissapointed ... he's good imo ..
maybe rafa didnt watch his skills in youtube yet..

Well, at least I watched the highlights and I think Liverpool played pretty well. Arsenal played like sh*t yesterday, and some fans even put blamed on a player who didn't have anything to do with it. About Aquaman, maybe next week....

since when did rafa change his 'rotation policy'? Do you think Rafa's the only one rotating? lol

Maybe with all the injuries the team is facing now you might think Rafa rotated less.

are we in a twilight zone? seems almost everybody injured.. lucas missed an oppoturnity to become a hero last nite..

One thing about Arsenal, did we swap roles this season lol?

I thought Mascherano and Lucas did ok as a pairing. He stood up against the likes De Jong/Barry/Ireland pretty well for the most part of the game.

The chemistry between the front 4 wasn't good. Gerrard isn't match-fit (For instance, what was he trying to do getting in the way of Babel?), Babel was pretty threatening in the first few minutes but was replaced by Benayoun who isn't match fit either. And Kuyt, one minute he's doing ok, the other he gives the ball away cheaply. If we have everybody fit, I really hope Benayoun takes his place - as hardworking as Kuyt and twice as threatening as Kuyt - on the right, but we all know that won't happen.

But the main culprit last night was *surprise surprise* our defense. The less said about our set-piece defending the better.
That, and Rafa's substitution. I'm ok with bringing Aurelio out, not at the expense of Benayoun! You could see City's confidence was wrecked after our equalizer and they were content to sit back. Take out Kuyt or even Insua, not a player who is mostly likely to get you the winner.

He has been playing at that level consistently since the start of the season. Rafa has persisted with him in almost every single match and even after he flew all the way back from a friendly in Australia.

this season seems only few players r performing well, reina,LUCAS,torres,ben,jonhson...maybe insua as well, but he had his up n down performance...

the defence generally has been awful, it save to say now n then, in every coming matches we will conceded goal, unless rafa fix this soon or this problem will be his main reason for his sacking..

defence and attacking are equally important...if we get clean sheet but no goal..its nothing also...

Liverpool defence is really the problem now, only 1 clean sheet over 10 games, leaking goal like for fun and mostly from set-piece, corner like that.

Tell me about it. Man to man or Zonal. Either we still suck.