Liverpool v Arsenal | Premier League Match Preview

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Dan Club (0:30)

Hello everybody, welcome to The Redmen TV and your match preview show at Liverpool welcoming Arsenal to Anfield this Sunday for 30 kick off. Massive game of football, really, really important, potentially really significant, but we'll talk about that over the course of the next 40 minutes. My name is Dan Club, I'll be your host, and delighted to be joined by Andy and Damon for this. Gentlemen, first off, good, excited?

Andy (0:53)

Very excited, very.

Damon (0:55)

Yeah, yeah, really excited for this one.

Dan Club (0:57)

Good. It's good to be excited, isn't it? I think, I mean, that's where I'm going to sort of pitch myself up because, yeah, I think at times last season and over the course of my Liverpool supporting life, you might have lost your way a little bit because things aren't so great on the pitch. But right now, there is that sort of, yeah, building up of what if around Liverpool, which is good. It's good to feel this way. Before we dive into everything Liverpool and Arsenal related, I need to draw your attention to our excellent partners, OUCH, who have a absolute plethora of competitions available on their website, ouch.com, one of which I have brought to your attention on the screen is an upcoming giveaway. They're doing a Liverpool versus Tottenham hospitality package. That is literally in, what's that, a couple of months time, just slightly less than middle of December towards Christmas. So as Christmas presents go for your Liverpool loved one, and there is not much better than getting them to Anfield and enjoying the hospitality there, as we hopefully batter Spurs once again. So yeah, check out ouch.com for that competition and indeed many of the others that they have going because they are excellent people. I've got two excellent people with me to speak about this game of football, but we're going to speak about hopefully not an excellent football team to begin with, it's Arsenal. Damon, I'll start with you. Form-wise, listen, the biggest talking point is them getting knocked out of the Cowboy Cup by Fleetwood this week. They won one in normal time, sent packing in penalties before that. It was a 2-0 win over Everton, 2-2 draw with Bayern Munich and they beat Nottingham Forest 1-0.

Good time to play them, but wherever the wounded bear, how do you see it?

Damon (2:30)

I don't think there's ever a great time to play Arsenal, but if there was one, I would maybe say it's now. You mentioned some of the results that they've had in the Premier League, especially over the past few weeks, and I don't think they've been that convincing. I know they went 1-0 down at the Emirates against Leeds as well. Against Forrest, I thought they were very, very lucky to come away with three points, massive deflected goal at the end. And Everton, it was their first set piece of the season, and a goal from Gabriel as well. So a draw away at the Allianz is a good result, though.

I do think we are playing them at a good time. I don't know if that's also more just confidence from a Liverpool side, because I think we are really starting to get better and better with each game that comes along. But yeah, I do really fancy us this weekend. I don't want to sound too confident too early, but I've got a really, really good feeling about the game this weekend, I must admit.

Dan Club (3:22)

I mean, you've gone on the first answer there. So you are feeling confident early, which is fine. It's good to feel that way again, isn't it? And I'll ask you the same sort of question really, because yeah, Damon uses the word convincing them. They haven't been that of late. Why else, as you mentioned, the result over in Germany is a decent one, very respectable.

But yeah, it felt as though early, early season, there was a sign of, OK, handbrakes off a little bit, they were firing on more cylinders. All of a sudden, I think maybe post-Brighton, I don't know whether that shook them up a little bit and they've reverted the type, because yeah, they aren't free flowing and they aren't really convincing anybody right now.