Let's go and fuck up Liverpool at Anfield before the international break, guys.
Our recent head-to-head is decent, our last win against them being in 2024:
Liverpool's transfer business (notable players only):
In: Florian Wirtz & Jeremie Frimpong (both Leverkusen), Hugo Ekitike (Frankfurt), Milos Kerkez (Bournemouth), Giorgi Mamardashvili (Valencia), Giovanni Leoni (Parma)
Out: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Real Madrid), Darwin Nunez (Al-Hilal), Luis Diaz (Bayern Munich), Jarell Quansah (Leverkusen)
Arsenal injuries: Saka, Ødegaard, Nørgaard, White, Havertz, Jesus
Liverpool injuries: Frimpong, Bradley
I think they are there for the taking, especially if they don't have a rightback. Calafiori and Gyökeres will eat them up on the left. This clip shows the exact type of situation I think we should exploit against them:
Gyökeres is on here, but Dowman is possibly an even better alternative since Viktor is drawing all the defenders. Just gotta release the ball somewhere, but instead Ethan carries it into a dead end and we lose it. Ødegaard does this exact thing a lot too, so I bet it's an instruction or a relic of a different system, but it's jarring when you watch it.
Regardless of whether it's Ethan or Eze who starts in the middle I'd tell them to keep their head up and be on the lookout for these runs. Liverpool's defence is old as fuck and their asses are hanging out. We're gonna cut through them like butter if we just release the ball quicker.
