He Liverpool overwhelmed from beginning to end Arsenal of Arteta in Anfield to add their third consecutive victory and confirm, if necessary, that it is the best team in England by far from the rest. He Arsenal, who arrived grown up to the appointment, he left dwarfed and with touched morale, aware that he lacks a lot of rennet to be able to look into the eyes of one of the most brilliant soccer machines of recent times.
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The current champion of the Premier He had no mercy on the Gunners, lukewarm and unresponsive to the gale of play and pressure that hit him right away. In a match start to dog face, with several disputes and friction, the referee forgave the direct red to Mané in minute 2 by a very clear nudge to Tierney. It was the beginning of the end for Londoners, hopelessly subdued by the hellish pace and deployment of the reds.
The set of Arteta saw a thread of hope in the middle of the first half, when Lacazette, after a bad rejection of Robertson, made it 0-1 the only time he could go against it (25 ') in the first half. It was a mirage, because three minutes later Mané put the tie taking advantage of a shot from Salah that left dead in the small area Leno.
In the exchange of blows, Arsenal was knocked out, forced to subsist in their area with no other task than trying to get out alive. Not for those. At 2-1, Robertson ate the toast to Bellerín at the far post taking advantage of a cross from the right of Alexander-Arnold. A goal conceived by the wings, a perfect example of the almost endless offensive repertoire of the Liverpool.
Without Thiago, absent due to injury, Liverpool excelled in every game record against Arsenal in diapers. The reds moved the ball at supersonic speed, ran to the counterattack and the pitchfork, increasingly oiled, was undetectable for David Luiz and company, who trembled like flans every time they had to come out playing from behind.
The tight score was the only thing that kept Arsenal alive, better disposed at the restart and with more fang from the entrance of Ceballos, a footballer who Arteta he cannot afford to book on the bench. Lacazette had in his boots the 2-2 in two very clear heads-up but it was done at night before Alisson.
Arsenal grew timidly from the baton of Ceballos but Klopp responded to the movement of Arteta making his debut for Diogo Jota, a footballer who has fallen on his feet at Anfield. The Portuguese was a torment for Bellerín, he missed twice in 10 minutes and did not spare the third to seal the final 3-1 (88 ’). Too Liverpool for the incipient Arsenal of Arteta.
3- Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gómez, Van Dijk, Robertson; Keita (Milner, 79 '), Fabinho, Wijnaldum; Salah, Firmino (Minamino, 90 ') and Mané (Diogo Jota, 80').
one- Arsenal: Leno; Bellerín, Holding, David Luiz, Tierney, Maitland-Niles; Elneny, Xhaka (Ceballos, 60 '); Willian (Pepe, 68 '), Lacazette (Nketiah, 73') and Aubameyang.
Goals: 0-1, Lacazette (25 '); 1-1, Mané (28 '); 2-1, Robertson (34 '); 3-1, Diogo Jota (88 ').
Referee: Craig Pawson. Yellows: Mané (3 '), Alexander-Arnold (49'), Bellerín (68 '), Ceballos (72')
Stadium: Behind closed doors at Anfield