On Saturday Liverpool took on Arsenal to resume play after the November international break. As most games go the teams were feeling each other’s play style out and things got a little chippy. In the thirty second minute Sadio Mane challenged Arsenal’s Tomiyasu. The challenge wasn’t the problem, it’s what Arsenal’s gaffer Arteta said to presumably Mane about the challenge. Klopp did not take too kindly what he had to say about his player and the coaches had to be separated by the officials and when cooler heads prevailed each coach was issued a yellow yard for their actions. With a couple missed scoring opportunities in their back pocket, Liverpool finally opened the scoring in the thirty ninth minute from a set piece that Sadio Mane was at the end of. That makes it seven goals in eleven games versus Arsenal for Mane. In the fifty second minute of the game Jota intercepted a horrendous pass and made one defender and the the keeper miss on his fake shot to eventually score in a wide open net.
After the second goal everyone could tell that the magic run of ten unbeaten games was likely to come to an end. After a beautiful header from Jota to send Mane on a 2v2 down the attacking end the Arsenal defenders were so focused on Mane they left the greatest player in the world, Mo Salah, unmarked for an easy tap in goal from the cross of Mane.
Unfortunately for Arsenal and their fans the embarrassment didn’t stop there, Takumi Minamino came on the pitch and replaced Jota, he was only on the field for sixty four seconds before he tapped in a cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold to make it 4-0.
Liverpool plays tomorrow afternoon in a group stage match against Porto and resumes Premier League play Saturday morning against Southampton. They currently sit in third on the table.
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