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Hello everyone and welcome into our ESPN FC studios for the latest edition of the show. I'm Alexis Younes alongside Xhaka Hislop. We're going to kick things off in the Premier League because on Thursday it was an enticing matchup with the league leaders Arsenal facing off against the Premier League champions Liverpool but it ended in a nil-nil stalemate. This is a look at what the English papers had to say. Sigh of the storm. Ooh, the battle of the guns did not turn out to be the blockbuster we expected. This is how it affected the table. Not that much. Arsenal still flying clear at the top of the table, six points ahead of Manchester City and Aston Villa. Let's welcome in our Julien Laurons for this one.
Jules, we know how close you are with Arsenal after the nil-nil draw with Liverpool. Are you cool with that result?
I was at the game, Alexis, and to be fair, I agree with some of the headlines that we've just showed. It was not the most entertaining game. Usually on the show, we say it was very tactical, which it was. It was cagey. You have to look at the Liverpool game plan, obviously, going into this game. And the fact that with Wirtz as a force number nine, Gakpo on the left, Frimpong on the right, and that midfield very narrow out of possession with Gravenberg and McAllister and Sobozlai and Wirtz, They basically nullify the creativity from an Arsenal point of view. They let the ball to Gabriel and Saliba, who, by the way, are the two Arsenal players with the most passes in the last third of the pitch on Thursday night, which is crazy because if you're Arsenal, you don't want Gabriel and Saliba to have the ball in the last third of the pitch and try to find the creativity with them.
So the plan from a Liverpool point of view to give nothing to Arsenal attacking-wise worked perfectly. The problem, if you do that when you're Liverpool, is that yourself... don't have much creativity. And that's the problem. For the first time, I think, in over 10 years, Liverpool had zero shot on target in a Premier League game, which, again, is so rare that it was very significant.
Shaka, your thoughts on the game as well? Because on paper it read to be a blockbuster, but were you left unimpressed as well? I thought it read for an Arsenal win, in all honesty. Listen, we saw these two meet at Anfield very early on in the season. It's almost like Screamer was the difference then.
How did Arsenal and Liverpool's match affect the Premier League standings?
But I thought Arsenal have grown since that game, and you can make the argument that Liverpool have regressed. And now, in London, I thought this was Arsenal's game to win. Especially when you see... earlier in the weekend, both City draw and Aston Villa draw, you think that this is an opportunity for Arsenal. So to see the game kind of play out as dully as it did, and to Juju's point, you kind of understand or you want to sympathise with Liverpool's approach in that I don't think Liverpool are anywhere near as good a football team as Arsenal. I would have loved to see more from Arsenal in that regard, given everything at stake. Had they won three points... I think we'd all be kind of declaring the title race over.
No, it still feels as though there's an opportunity. Arsenal still asked us to lose, but it feels as though there's an opportunity for City and quite possibly still for Villa. So that for me was a little bit of a disappointment. Had it played out differently, had Arsenal drawn on Friday night, let's say, and then you see City and Villa draw later on in the weekend, it feels a whole lot differently than it does right now. I just feel it's... a real opportunity dropped by Arsenal. And psychologically, that would have been a tough pill for Arteta to swallow.
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