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I thought Liverpool were excellent against Arsenal from the very first whistle and really put their authority on the game.
Sadio Mane surprised me right from the start, that he was flying and caught one of his guys with one arm, who looked worse than I thought, but it just showed how excited the whole team was.
The fitness levels and pressure across the field that we showed were off the scale and it was so impressive the way Liverpool did their business.
We never gave Arsenal a moment to calm down and we strangled it. They kept trying to play from behind and he may get away with it against lesser teams but not against Liverpool.
It’s a good way to try and play football to be fair to them, but they ended up throwing us after a few passes at the end because the Reds were relentless.
It was like a tide of attack after attack, Liverpool was incessant and not even conceding the opening goal affected us.
Arsenal was lucky to be fair, it was a bit dire from our point of view and I can see why Roy Keane used the word ‘sloppy’ when you look at how it developed, it was a catalog of errors almost out of place. schoolboy football.
But this Liverpool team is a different animal these days from sides that might have let something like that affect them in the past.
The fact that we responded immediately and just continued to bring the game to them was brilliant and you have to give Arsenal some credit.
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Their sides from a couple of years ago would have collapsed under the kind of pressure we put them under, but they’re looking to have more on them under Mikel Arteta and they were right to stay in the game until the final stages.
We were opened once or twice and Alisson proved again how important it is to be alert when you have very little to do.
He was delighted that Diogo Jota scored a goal on his Anfield debut and it was a really good ending.
His technique was brilliant at controlling the ball and shooting and he could have scored a hat-trick in the short time he was on the field.
Making that kind of impact and showing the willingness you had to get involved so early in your Liverpool career will only make it easier for you to adjust.
I think we have already made a small statement about our intentions this season.
A few things were said when the matches came out and they gave us a complicated set of opening games, but the way we have played, particularly the last two, shows the desire and determination to show that we are the best again. it’s still there and we’re going to make a few stops this season.
I don’t think Leeds will score three against us if we played them now and there will always be a little adjustment by not having a proper preseason, but it seems like we are shifting gears now.
There really has been an improvement in every game, if Leeds was 6/10, Chelsea was 7/10 and Arsenal would be 8/10 at least, that bodes well because we know that Jurgen Klopp and his backroom staff are always pushing for Players. to get better.
The fact that Manchester City hid at home to Leicester at the weekend raised some eyebrows, but I still think they will be Liverpool’s main rivals.
They will not receive many beatings like that, Pep Guardiola knows that he has problems in defense and it seems that he is taking measures to solve it by bringing the boy Dias from Benfica.
Whether that’s enough remains to be seen because the way they play shoving the whole team means they get exposed to the rear at times.
The difference when we do that is that we have Virgil van Dijk in the back to oversee things and until they have someone of that quality they can still have problems.
If you’re playing City and you have fast lads up front, all you do is when you have the ball after a couple of quick passes, hitting diagonals behind their backs, forcing the middle halves to cross and accelerate. it will cause them endless problems.
A number of teams did that last season and obviously Jamie Vardy gave them trouble on Sunday, he was fantastic and it really broke them apart.
Liverpool will go to Etihad in early November and it will be fascinating to see what City have done by then to try to shore up the defense.
But if we continue to play along the same lines as we have been in recent weeks, City will need more than one or two new defenders to keep this fantastic Liverpool at bay.
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