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Liverpool – Arsenal

It was a big day today for us Liverpool supporters. A game against Arsenal who had 6 consecutive wins before today's game. Liverpool on the other hands, has been struggling with the wins and the team just hasn't been playing the way they should if they wish to battle for the championship.

So Liverpool 11st eleven today:

Reina
Finnan - Carragher - Hyypiä - Riise
Gerrard - Mascherano - Alonso
Kuyt                                  Voronin
Torres

It didn't look too good for me, but surely some might like it. Yet just after 8 mins we got a reason to celebrate as Gerrard took a cannon freekick shot from the edge of the box, Hleb moved away just enough and the ball found its way in the back of the net! 1-0 to L'pool.

The whole match was quite nice to watch, but the Finnish commentator on Canal+ sounded more like an Arsenal every now and then criticising Liverpool's actions and defending Arsenal's good acting skills.

Just around 40mins, Torres got a knock and even though being sort of out of the game the whole 1st half, it wasn't too pleasing to watch him being substituted for the 2nd half. Peter Crouch marched in and from that point on the tactic was clear - play it long to Crouch's head. I don't support this as I know Crouch's a good player with his feet as well so unless trying to get a freekick after Crouch is fouled outside the box... this is pretty useless.

Around 80th minute, Hleb had the ball in 20 metres, played it through past Carragher to Fabregas who nicked it past Reina quite easily and the game was 1-1. Disappointment was huge! I felt I just had been raped by a group of squarrels... not saying that I know what it's like though.

So a 1-1 draw... In the end it doesn't feel that bad as we were the clear underdogs in this match and considering the past few matches' form, it's ok to get a draw against someone who's been winning the past 7-8 games in a row. But yet... It's always disappointing to lose a 1-0 lead :(