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Wow! Arsenal 3 Tottenham 2.. Lacazette scores in slow motion

Bellerin just pressed a self destruct button there and got lucky, what was he thinking? Trying to give Son an assist.

keryj:
I pray not so

2-2 nice finish by Aubameyang, I guess I'm wrong already

Double substitution for Arsenal, Lacazette and Ramsey but why Ramsey? Seriously Mr Emery? That's your game plan? Arsenal are so not winning this match.

keryj:
Congrates in advance to your seeing

I hope I'm wrong though.

helinues:
Dean is still fair inside this game so far. Nobody is perfect

Mike Dean is a clueless referee just like most of his English referee mates, that's why FIFA didn't bother to select any of them for the world cup in Russia.

keryj:
1:2 now

I actually see this match ending 1-3 in favour of Tottenham because none of the Arsenal players are ready to score today. That aside I hate the referee Mike Dean, I hope he retires after this season.

[quote author=Yusfunoble post=73489980][/quote]What do you have to say now? The first team to score in a North London derby doesn't always end up being d winner and Arsenal hasn't yet led at half time in the Premier league this season.

keryj:
I pray not so

it's 1-1, poor defending and goalkeeping led to that goal, although I don't even think that was a free kick, Son just dived once Sokratis came close to him

keryj:
I want to swear for iwobi

I want to swear for iwobi

I want to swear for iwobi

Yeah Iwobi has good football skills but he has no football sense and composure.

Arsenal are playing so well but they are gonna pay for all these missed chances

Rubiesangel:
A lot of people have their various phone eeds and preferences. yours maybe higher but it doesn't invalidate other user'd preferences.

Nigerians are only buying these transsion products because that's what's available in our stores but not because they are affordable or value for money. There are cheaper and better like the Xiaomi redmi brands, Oppo Realme and etc. It's just that they don't have distributors and service centers in Nigeria.

Another overpriced and overhyped piece of crap by tecno, they are seriously trying to copy the looks of the Huawei Honor 8x. Why use this low end mediatek SoC on the Tecno camon 11 when snapdragon 660 and 636 is available and much better.

Religious Stupidity!

This road has been bad for over a decade now, it's not just the fault of APC alone, the road was bad during PDP's tenure, I remember having to ply on one side of the expressway because the other side was so bad or under construction, that's around 2007 to 2010, I even had to take the old road sometimes, all nigerian politicians are greedy, selfish and wicked no matter the party.

Things will only change when the right caliber of people start joining our political parties, these current set of politicians won't take Nigeria anywhere. They are all the same.

Chelsea's unbeaten run is over, I don't like Tottenham but they thoroughly deserved this win.

Boring Super Eagles!

Hahahaha it's now become a miracle for Nigeria to qualify for the AFCON. I don't bother watching the super eagles these days, they've been a very boring team to watch for years now, haven't qualified for the nations cup since they won in 2013 so I guess it's a big miracle for them to qualify this time around in a tough group which has the mighty Seychelles, the modern slave masters Libya and the xenophobic South Africa . I wish them success at the AFCON when it comes around next year.

oloriLFC:
Arsenal were lucky. Wolves could have taken the game in the final minutes

Yeah that's right but Wolves got those chances because in d end Arsenal was going for all 3 points and comttited almost all their players to attack which left a huge gap in defence for the very quick Traore to get in behind easily. I believe if Arsenal scored first in the match, they would have comfortably won the game because Wolves would have been forced to come out thereby leaving gaps in their defence.

Arsenal dominated the match in terms of 72 percent ball possession but Arsenal was very poor today, very slow movement, too many sideways passess, overhit long balls and too many unnecessary flicks made Wolverhampton's defence look good, Arsenal in fact got very lucky in the end, Wolves could have easily won this match 2-1 late in the match through very quick counterattacks if they had better strikers.

It's now 1 win in 5 matches for Arsenal in all competitions but still unbeaten in 16 matches. The usual November slump is well and truly here which is normally the worst month for Arsenal in terms of results. Arsenal has to stop starting these matches slowly and try to win their games within the 1st 30mins instead of waiting for the 2nd half to turn it on.

crazygod:
This time last year, Liverpool were playing rubbish. Salah never even score up to 6 goals. But in the second half of the league, the started firing on all cylinders. If Liverpool can still be playing like this, by December/January when ox comes back, can u imagine the deadly midfield of ox, keita and gini? I still maintain what I said, this league is still extremely wide open for the three teams.

Nope I don't think this Liverpool team is as good as last year's Liverpool which didn't even finish up to 2nd in the league, they might be better off defensively but they are worse in attack this season, in the coming months they will drop a lot of points that will damage their title chances before the end of March next year.

crazygod:
I still think the league is between City, Chelsea and Liverpool

From what I've seen so far, the English Premier League is a one team league, it's Manchester City's league to loose, sadly there's no team good enough right now to challenge them, by the end of the season, Liverpool and Chelsea will all finish more than 10 points behind Manchester City.

There's no easy 3 points in the Premier league unless you are Manchester City, even Barcelona is not guaranteed 3 points any more, they are currently losing at home 2-0 to Real Betis.

Chelsea has started so well this season and will certainly finish in the top 4 but if this match ends in a draw against Everton it's not a good result for a team hoping on challenging Man City for the title.

openmine:
Kai this emotional trauma of not winning this match is really affecting arsenal fans even on Sunday

My elder I didn't know you watched matches during the 50s which now makes you think you know better than the stats available for all to see!
What you made emphasis on is simply ball possession;in other words,arsenal had more of the ball than Liverpool which is practically expected from a home side!
And besides,same arsenal had the same dominance against man city but we all know the result!

While I give arsenal credit for dominating which is expected from a home team,you can't say for sure that such dominance will result into goals....
Even the stats prove my point about both teams....arsenal clearly had the dominance in terms of possession but Liverpool had the attempts "minimally ".....
Like I explained ab initio,Goal attempts are based on two criterion;Shots off target and shots on target!

Arsenal and Liverpool had 4 shots on target each....
Arsenal had 5 shots off target while Liverpool had 6 shots off
target...
Based on that analogy,Liverpool edged arsenal out 'minimally' in terms of goal attempts which I earlier explained indicating that the game was highly competitive between both teams!

Lastly,saying arsenal would have won by 6-2 is just preposterous,laughable and also proof that you watch matches based on your emotions which is very typical of most arsenal fanatics!
if indeed your team could have won by six,why wasn't this reflected in the shots on target?


What I can say for now is to take a chill pill!
There will be a second half on December 29 at anfield!
Then your team can enact what wasn't done at emirates!
Though I will advise that you go to a viewing centre that is very close to a pharmacist or clinic just in case!

Your comments have already proved that you didn't watch the game, only looked at the football stats or at most watched the 3 mins highlights.....Anyway I will be looking forward to the return game away at Anfield. I hope you will watch the full game this time around and not look at match stats and football websites while the live match is going on.

openmine:
In my opinion,I would first say arsenal were actually the ones who escaped with a draw!
Arsenal were on the verge of losing less than 9 minutes to the end of the game....Hence,they were actually chasing the game!

Secondly,You might have all the dominance but the real graft is on the goal "attempts" made and Liverpool edged arsenal in that respect!

finally,you can say both sides played well...however,on the context of goal attempts, Liverpool marginally edged arsenal who,being the home team,were expected to have not just dominance but more goal attempts than the visiting team!

From your comments, you sound like these whatsapp generation kids and coupon fans who never watch a live football game but follow the game through football news websites, twitter and football stats.

Arsenal and Liverpool might have had the same 4 shots on target during the game according to the stats but Arsenal totally dominated that 1st and 2nd half, there's some kind of match domination that doesn't show up on basic football stats, Arsenal in that first half alone had like very good 7 or 8 half chances which was either deflected or blocked by the Liverpool defense which in the end won't register as shots on target or off target. Arsenal also made numerous attacking incursions into Liverpool's defense and in the midfield Liverpool couldn't recover the ball quickly enough when they lost possession that's one of the reasons they ended up having only 39% ball possession in the whole match.

Arsenal coming from behind to draw doesn't mean that they couldn't have won it, I wasn't necessarily happy with Ramsey coming on for Aubameyang when Arsenal was still 1-0 down but even with the 2 glorious chances missed by Van Dyke for Liverpool, Arsenal could have easily won this game 6-2 if things went their way that's how dominant Arsenal was on Saturday evening.

teelaw4life:
Okay bro. For the sake of argument, I'll agree and say what you've written up there has got some merit. How about this verdict from former premier league referee, Peter Walton?

The thing is you haven't explained why Mane was offside or at what point he was offside. (Not that all of these matters but you're claiming only officials know the letter of the law and as such are the only ones able to interprete the offside rule. This statement alone compromises the merit of any argument you might have. It's not a first, we know how bad English officials are, Andre Marinner sending off the wrong player, Mike Dean not giving clear penalties, Deliberate handballs ignored and what not. They're all humans, that's why VAR is being introduced to help pick out these errors as events happen super fast in real-time that officials aren't able to pick certain actions up.

Now, I'll explain why Mane wasn't offside:

When the initial ball from Salah came in, Mane was in an offside position but he never made a move toward the ball or interfere with play. Instead, it was Firmino, who was onside, who went for it, got the ball under control and attempted a shot on target which hit the bar. At this point, Mane had already moved behind Firmino, before the latter even played the shot -and by the letter of the law, there was no way he could be offside. The Linesman perhaps, had the first phase of play in mind, when Mane was offside, forgetting that he was not interferring with play and Firmino's touch and control had nullified that. I could go on bro...but a simple google search of what the experts are saying on this matter will point you in the right direction.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1040475/Liverpool-news-Did-you-see-Sadio-Mane-s-goal-WRONGLY-ruled-out-for-offside-at-Arsenal

Shalom.

Hahahaha nice write up and you made some good points. In that first action of play Mane did go for the ball though but Firminho who was very close and directly in front of him from the side at which the cross came in got to the ball first so Mane was interfering with play that's the point, his close proximity with Firminho when the cross came in blocked off the movement of Mustafi who couldn't come across to properly challenge Firminho who was onside.

teelaw4life:
Not correct bro. Read this excerpt from the bbc website and you'll see that you're wrong.

When has BBC become Fifa or a Fifa referee ? BBC is not always right. BBC that has biased reporters, it's the same with other sports reporters and pundits on Sky too. It's their reporters that posted that on the website, they are not perfect in sports journalism or always have an accurate and unbiased sports report.

Last week I wonder why this same BBC in their sports report didn't even mention a crucial decision which happened in Arsenal's last week's game against Crystal Palace when Jordan Ayew tore Rob Holding's shirt by pulling it which was a clear yellow card according FIFA rules, he should have been sent off because that would have been a 2nd yellow but yet no foul was given and a corner was given instead and from that resulting action Arsenal conceded a penalty. BBC never mentioned that Ayew foul in their sports report which I felt was a very critical event in d game.

So my friend BBC is not the moral compass or the custodians of Fifa rules, their reporters just gave their own subjective opinion based on what they think it's the correct decision. It's only a licensed Fifa referee who knows the Fifa offside rules that can review the replay action and determine whether it's offside or not but not a biased BBC reporter or sports analyst.

All these people whom doesn't know anything about football rules including the clueless sports pundits on TV saying that Mane's goal should have stood, maybe they don't know about the new revised offside rule yet. The linesmen today was spot on, got all the offsides right including the ones that went against Arsenal.

CoolAmbience:
U sabi football?

Nope but at least I sabi football pass u, which one u sabi? cricket or rugby?

Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1, Arsenal was the better team, should have won this game because Liverpool wasn't good today, other top 4 sides could have taken 3 points from this game if Liverpool played this badly, Arsenal did well though to come from a goal behind to draw the game but please next time Ramsey should stay on the bench for d full 90 mins and only play Carabao cup and Europa league matches.

Ramsey for Aubameyang when u are a goal down, Arsenal has lost this match with that substitution, Emery u got this one wrong.

A good first half by Arsenal although they got a bit lucky with those 2 Van Dyke chances especially the one at the end of the 1st half which hit d bar and was cleared for a corner. Arsenal can still win this match if they don't make any silly mistakes and the attack becomes more composed when taking their chances.