liverpool held by 10-man arsenal last night

Arsenal – Liverpool 1-1 at Emirates, leaving Liverpool still top by 2 points, but they drop to second if Chelsea beat Everton at Woodison tonight, but I think Everton will put up a stiff fight, and it wont be a certainty like what it was with West Ham last week, and look what happened.

It was funny, Liverpool were beginning to exert control, though with very little chances being created, than RVP scored a gorgeous goal, where everything also just fell perfectly for him, but the execution was absolutely flawless – an absolute perfect 10 and it had to be. Then Liverpool began to turn the screw and out of nowhere Keane equalized, and Liverpool briefly threatened to run riot. Second half, Ade was dismissed, and suddenly, we lost steam.

Key points – Liverpool are very, very strong, even without Masch, Torres, Aurelio, and Gerrard, Kuyt and Alonso looking tired. Whether they can remain contenders, the next 2-3 results are very important, the run of draws, or heaven forbid, if we lose, continues, and we’d pretty much feel deflated and look towards next year. So it’s very much a confidence level thing, I hope. Can we sustain the good 1^st half in the 2^nd half given that there have been less rotation this year, I dread the feeling, but tactically, we should remain the same. It’s just the confidence to go all out and arrogantly thrashing everyone all the time can we win that.

And having seen how Rafa operates, identify the weakness and overcome it with strategic decision making, if we fail this year, and chances are still pretty high that we wont, then, next year, watch out as we have the experience of challenging built up and the squad is retained for the coming years.