did he not mention we play on Monday evening as well?

And we played a Liverpool (once again) at their best.

Sorry Rich, but that wasn't Liverpool at their best. Mo Salah is probably the best player in the world. He was on the bench. Jota and Diaz didn't have good games. Robertson said after the game that they knew at half time that they needed to play better, which they did in the second half.

Sorry Rich, but that wasn't Liverpool at their best. Mo Salah is probably the best player in the world. He was on the bench. Jota and Diaz didn't have good games. Robertson said after the game that they knew at half time that they needed to play better, which they did in the second half.

Of course they weren't at their very best in this specific game (part of that is probably us making it very difficult for them) but overall they're absolutely flying at the moment with 14 wins and a loss in their last 15 games. Not like when we faced them in the second leg of the EFL Cup and they had two draws and a loss in their last five.

These comments seem to do us a disservice. At the end of the day it took them a goalkeeping mistake to get them playing. Until then they were not much kop and they should have been one down.

At anfield in the first half they didn’t do much again until Rob Holding forgot to mark someone at a set piece.

They just have way more firepower than us in the final third. That to me seems the difference

Did anyone say project? Get to work, agent Ødegaard

And absolutely ruthless and clinical with their finishing and almost perfect in their defending. Any criticism of Liverpool’s performance is down to how we played them not because they were poor.

And I never said they were poor, but you said they were at their best. Both Souness and Carragher praised Arsenal at half time but also said Liverpool would need to up their performance and Robertson said the same after the game.

And I never said they were poor, but you said they were at their best. Both Souness and Carragher praised Arsenal at half time but also said Liverpool would need to up their performance and Robertson said the same after the game.

That West Ham win last night isn’t helpful. If they win the Europa League then they take one of the Champions League places.

I dont think it does. There would be 5 in the CL but 4th place in the league would have to go in the qualifying round.

The bigger threat was the potential for Man U to win the CL and West Ham win EL and both finish outside top 4. Then 4th place would not get CL.

You’re right Rich. I posted a report the other day that a maximum of five clubs are allowed in the Champions League from any one country.

So Arsenal would not get in it by finishing fourth behind Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea if both West Ham won the Europa League and Manchester United win the Champions League as winning the European trophies comes above finishing fourth in the Premier League as a criterion for Champions League qualification.

Gladly Manchester United were knocked out a couple of days ago, meaning they can’t win the Champions League. Hence even if West Ham win the Europa League, fourth place will still get us in it.

I dont think it does. There would be 5 in the CL but 4th place in the league would have to go in the qualifying round.

The bigger threat was the potential for Man U to win the CL and West Ham win EL and both finish outside top 4. Then 4th place would not get CL.

I suppose the only permutation now would be Chelsea finishing 5th, Arsenal 4th and West Ham 6th but both Chelsea and West Ham winning in europe, then we’d be out of CL

I just disagree with the notion that Liverpool were below par then blew us away when they finally felt up to it like it was their decision.

If Ramsdale had a stronger hand and saka actually cleared his lines would we be saying Liverpool stepped up.

Conte just a bit upset over Mikel's fixture congestion complaints.

Conte just a bit upset over Mikel's fixture congestion complaints.

If we wanted a response on fairness in football it probably shouldn’t come from a manager who was given a 10 month ban as part of the biggest match fixing scandal to hit Italy for decades

I’d quite forgotten that.

The Conte match fixing I'd even forgotten about. Think that was that one episode in that Bad Sport series on Netflix. The episode called Soccergate. Seems Conte forgot about it as well. In all due fairness...

Only a few days rest, must win game, and Villa are a tough nut to crack ( at ltg....lol), but if we play anywhere close to what we did in the Liverpool game, we should win. A draw is probably a fair result on paper if you look at everything I would guess. But, we must do it.

I'm hoping West Ham takes points if not a win but a win will be tough. I like them this season. Proud of how consistently tough they are to play. I'd hate to lose out to 4th but West Ham is the only one of the three (sperz, Man Utd), I wouldn't begrudge.

Let's do it!

I think this will be a tough game.

Honestly I would mix it up and bring in Lokonga, Emile Smith Rowe and Pépé but I bet we don’t. The concern is around disrupting the front 3 would be why we won’t change it.


I don’t think a point would be bad but it wouldn’t be good. 6 points thought from the 3 fixtures this week would be superb and any of us would have took that at the start of the week.

I’ve been to villa park before and it’s a tough place to go. I still have nightmares about a nil nil league cup semi there once when we had David Hillier in midfield and we went out on away goals.

Remember that time when we were 2-0 at half time. Then a parachutist got it horribly wrong (he ended up losing a leg). The second half was delayed and we then lost 2-3.

I think this will be a tough game.

Honestly I would mix it up and bring in Lokonga, Emile Smith Rowe and Pépé but I bet we don’t. The concern is around disrupting the front 3 would be why we won’t change it.


I don’t think a point would be bad but it wouldn’t be good. 6 points thought from the 3 fixtures this week would be superb and any of us would have took that at the start of the week.

I’ve been to villa park before and it’s a tough place to go. I still have nightmares about a nil nil league cup semi there once when we had David Hillier in midfield and we went out on away goals.

If we wanted a response on fairness in football it probably shouldn’t come from a manager who was given a 10 month ban as part of the biggest match fixing scandal to hit Italy for decades