Liverpool FC Forum

bunglemark2 » Sun Oct 25, 2026 11:25 pm wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Oct 25, 2026 10:18 pm wrote:That Arsenal game next week is massive, lose it and they'll pretty much be out of sight, win it though and we'll only be 3 points behind them and with City about to have the book thrown at them we'd be in a title race.

In truth, I don't think we have enough to beat Arsenal at the moment. Midfield is overrun most games. They have very good attacking wingers and I don't think we have enough to counter them. Still, stranger things have happened...

I've not been impressed with Arsenal this season.. they play very safe predictable football doing the bare minimun to snatch a win. I think if we go at them like Brighton did then I think we could run them over.

Superb 3 points against one of the in form teams in the league. Isak continues his scoring run and is showing why we paid top dollar.

We are not settled as Arsenal and competing with them atm is too much to ask. However, given City will get docked points I'd love it if we could somehow manage to compete for the title. Otherwise Arsenal will just walk it this season, no one will compete with them.
We're making steady progress and long may it continue.

I do think we will get better as the season progresses and if we can stay close then we would have a great chance, traditionally Arsenal tail off as the season progresses.

UvS xR4GEx » Sun Oct 25, 2026 11:33 pm wrote:

bunglemark2 » Sun Oct 25, 2026 11:25 pm wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Oct 25, 2026 10:18 pm wrote:That Arsenal game next week is massive, lose it and they'll pretty much be out of sight, win it though and we'll only be 3 points behind them and with City about to have the book thrown at them we'd be in a title race.

In truth, I don't think we have enough to beat Arsenal at the moment. Midfield is overrun most games. They have very good attacking wingers and I don't think we have enough to counter them. Still, stranger things have happened...

I've not been impressed with Arsenal this season.. they play very safe predictable football doing the bare minimun to snatch a win. I think if we go at them like Brighton did then I think we could run them over.

A repeat 4-0 after 20 minutes will do me 

Look I'm not getting carried away here because although we are winning games we are far from dominating them from gun to tape, we are clearly still very much a work in progress and in the early stages of a process.
Saying that though when we first signed the likes of Flo and Alex and Hugo etc even our biggest rivals were like ugh okay just hand them the trophy for the next 5 years and be done with it, the potential we have here is frightening everyone friend or foe can see it and i honestly believe given the sheer talent in our squad even a half-cocked, spluttering, miss-firing version of us could go close to winning the title, especially with City sailing along like football's version of the Flying Dutchman, like a ghost ship there but not there if you know what i mean.
In my opinion - kind of like us when we won it under Arne - Arsenal are a good team but not a phenominal one, in fact last season we beat them at Anfield with a Dom wonder-strike and played them off the park at their place in probably one of the most one sided draws you'll ever see, even their fans acknowledged that and that was when we were sh.1t and they were flying and on their way to their first title in 2 decades.
There are a couple of other factors in play which make me believe next weekends game is huge, first given the stage we just happen to be at with a new manager just starting to get his idea's across etc logic would suggest we'll be a much better team in May than we are now, in all probability we'll get better and better every  month that goes by so we are only going to improve as the season goes on plus as we well know for whatever reason its not easy to win back to back premier league titles only top, top teams have managed it. Add to that no City, i'm telling you If we win next week its game on.
Yes in the cold light of day consistency or rather the lack of it will probably sink us and yes we still have those moments where it looks like the opposition could drive a coach and horses down the middle of the pitch through the heart of our midfield but sometimes when there's a huge prize on the line players can learn on the job, thats pretty much what happened in Arne's first season, no one expected us to win the title that season, people were even wondering if we'd finish in the top 4, once you start stringing wins together though sometimes players dont want to stop.