This week was all about preparing for the weekend. After winning the previous week momentum seemed to great in the Liverpool camp with confidence in all of the players. Our opponent this week was Arsenal who of course are a very tough opponent being one of the best teams in the league placing 4th in current standings.

Going into this week we were sitting at the top of the table with Manchester City and things are looking good. Especially not having any other games during the mid week all of our efforts are solely on trying our best to beat our opponents, Arsenal.

Injury wise going into the week the only problem is with our centre midfielder Henderson as he is still out with injury which of course is a big loss but at the same time we have great depth in our squad and we can replace him with big talent. Being away this weekend playing at Arsenal’s home ground ‘The Emirates’ in London their will be the disadvantage of the crowd. This always plays a huge factor in games, especially in soccer because the crowds get behind teams even more so than in other sports, their are chants, songs and just pure noise like no other. With a big match up like Arsenal and Liverpool their is a lot of history and no love lost with the battles they face. You can bet the fans of Arsenal are looking forward to this one.

So game day comes and Klopp announces that his squad are fit and ready to go. Both teams start off the match relatively poor with not many chances as it goes into half time scoreless at 0-0. After the half the level of play doesn’t get that much better but we manage to score a goal from our machine in the middle James Milner. This really silenced the crowd and I thought we were going to go on and score a few more from momentum but for some reason the players didn’t react in the way they should have making silly mistakes and getting completely outplayed by Arsenal. They were dominating us. They eventually tie the game in the 82nd minute and the game eventually ends as a tie. Now, if you gave me this result a few years ago I would be delighted as we weren’t as good as we are right now. So I think Liverpool fans should not expect so much right now and be happy with the result especially being away from home.

I can see why fans are disappointed though as this means we have fallen into 3rd place for the first time this season being behind Manchester City and Chelsea. But we still are undefeated which is a great positive. Bring on next week.