Arsenal vs Liverpool

football.london's Gunners writer Kaya Kaynak looks back on the 2-0 Premier League defeat for Mikel Arteta's men against Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium.

"Now we lost two games to [Manchester] City and Liverpool when you are there toe-to-toe and you deserve much more than we got from the results, but the reality is that we didn’t." Arteta will receive little sympathy when it comes to a packed schedule, given that Arsenal aren't in Europe this season and exited the FA Cup at the Third Round stage. "Thank you so much to the Premier League to do that," the Spaniard said of his side's packed fixture list. It is perhaps for this reason that Mikel Arteta passed up the opportunity to pour more praise on the Brazilian in his post match press conference. There was a moment late in the game where the Brazilian had an effort that was reminiscent of Thierry Henry strike with its low curling nature from the left edge of the box. Having beaten Alexander-Arnold to the byline, the 20-year-old cut the ball back blindly instead of picking out Alexandre Lacazette or Martin Odegaard. He might well point to poor movement from the pair in the middle as the reason for this but playing with his head down is a trait that blights Martinelli's game. Poor Alexander-Arnold was run ragged on the night, and after the game Klopp felt the need to leap to the defence of his right back. "I’m not happy with the goals we conceded but it’s part of the game and when you have the chances against them you have to hurt them and get something out of that." In games against both Manchester City and Liverpool this year he has truly stood out among of sea of the greatest midfielders on the planet. You can see that with the supreme confidence he has every time he walks out on to the pitch. This is the same place Liverpool were in before they signed Alisson and Virgil Van Dijk, and the same place Manchester City were in before Pep Guardiola got the full backs he wanted. Martin Odegaard was presented with an excellent opportunity to put Arsenal in front when Alexandre Lacazette seized on Thiago's misplaced backpass, but failed to convert in something of a sliding doors moment for the match.