After two wins to start the early Barclays Premier League season, Liverpool is looking to pull off another win, this time in a clash against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on Monday. He was only one of the four starters, apart from Skrtel, Loren and Henderson in the Liverpool side to not have a single incident of bad control during the entire match.
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The only significant signing for the Gunners so far has been Petr Cech.
RK: This will be a stroll for Swansea and if things don’t improve at Sunderland I can see Dick Advocaat walking out the door at Sunderland. They have won two games 1-0 without playing well in either of them.
Leicester City may be on a two game winning streak and, somewhat surprisingly, find themselves second on the ladder, but Claudio Ranieri is in danger of getting ahead of himself.
Two contentious decisions helped the Anfield outfit win their first home game of the season against AFC Bournemouth that saw Benteke being awarded a goal on his home debut.
“If you assess the games we’ve had against Arsenal, we’ve always had, especially at home, dominance of the ball”.
Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson fears a protracted lay-off if he dangers enjoying via the ache barrier towards Arsenal on Monday. “He is assessing very quickly that they may have been an attempt, but there’s no way Philippe Coutinho will get to the ball and you can see that, though he’s in an offside position”.
“The ball’s been crossed in and players will look to go for the ball”. Since Suarez’s sale, much has been made about the lack of game-changers in Liverpool’s side, but their brilliant Brazilian is growing ever closer in importance to the now Barcelona star.
Even if the possession battle doesn’t worry Rodgers, the resurgence of Alexis Sanchez might.
It has been another summer of a host of new players coming in at Liverpool. Morgan Schneiderlin and Memphis Depay in particular are such key figures that if they are not at top form then the team will look a little sluggish, although Memphis looked rather sensational midweek, didn’t he?
He’s been one quarter of a settled back four for Brendan Rodgers, which has yet to be breached in the Barclays Premier League.
A loss in this match could send either team into a downward spiral. He also praised Benteke’s movement and finishing before adding, strangely: “Of course if I am Eddie Howe and Bournemouth I am going to be disappointed because it was only a few weeks ago we were told that was offside and shouldn’t count”. If history holds, it will be Arsenal celebrating.
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Cy Brown writes about soccer and other stuff for Sports on Earth.
