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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Liverpool 4-4 Arsenal

What have they done to deserve this?! It's a job undone!

It was all a matter of luck in the first half. How Arsenal managed to get a goal from the ONE defensive mistake we made against their double-figures is just baffling! Fabianski was close to being hopeless and his defence offered him little cover. The mistake from Masch aside, we were doing everything right!

Second half came and we managed to hit back with two goals. Belief starts flooding in. Arsenal's defence was still a disgrace and their midfield kept losing possession. All seems fair till Arshavin managed another TWO. Just like that! I couldn't believe it, the players couldn't believe it, and that Russian himself couldn't believe it! You have to feel for Reina cause I think it all seems so absurd! The first goal was a mistake from our defensive midfielder, then the right back, then the left back and then....Torres then came to the rescue once again! 3-3.

The last five minutes of the game was quite hard to watch actually. I felt like we were pulling a Villa where we seemed to have lost quite a lot of focus. Every time Arsenal broke for a counter-attack, I was screaming for a foul to be conceded but nope, no tackles came in as usual. Alonso kept backing off (why?!?!) and the ball was cut to the left and in ran Arshavin to blast in another goal. BAM! 3-4. Oh lordy. And yet, the fans still sung You'll Never Walk Alone.

As if that wasn't dramatic enough, Benayoun made it 4-4 right before the end of the game. Gebus. This is the part I'm most afraid about the Never Say Die spirit. The hope that really hurts.

A point does not suffice and as much as I would have loved to post about how brilliant a job we did coming back with those 4 goals, I can't. Liverpool shouldn't have conceded the first goal, they should NOT have conceded the second, the third NOR the fourth. This isn't Chelsea. This was a pretty shiteous Arsenal side with Arshavin the four-goal Almighty. I am extremely upset with this game.

I hope Sammy Lee gives our defence a good smack in the head. You know he can! And throw in a couple of Spanish lectures at Arbie as well. We'll also have to convince Lady Luck to come back to our side.

Watch out. Rawr.