TIME WASTING CHEATS! | Liverpool 0-1 Arsenal | Pajak's Match Reaction

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Chris Pajak (0:37)

I'm so fevered after that, to be honest with you, right? It's just, it's so infuriating watching the champions of England play football like that. They are just the biggest time wasting cheats that you can ever sort of imagine really more than anything. But then equally, you can't give them an opportunity if you're Liverpool, in my opinion. Like, the goal that we can see that there, it's so poor, like, you know, I think Virgil was the one that said, push everyone forwards, go forwards. And then we had maybe Jacque, Alisson and Virgil van Dijk there. And then what we do is we decide to play it out from the back. It's a poor ball from Alisson, it is. And he's looked a little bit iffy the last sort of couple of weeks with the passing side of things. But that ball, just out it, just out it and reset. It was exactly what David Ryan was doing for them. If they were in a little bit of pressure, he just outed it, knocked it out of play, they get the numbers in. You cannot let Arsenal, unfortunately, go 1-0 up in a game of football. You can't give them a goal. And I don't think we started particularly well if I'm being honest. But after 20 minutes, we really took control of the game. We dominated possession. I thought Trey and Ioni was brilliant with that sticky sort of couple of minutes at the beginning of the game. But really settled us, really got the ball and really got on the ball and was that option between the two centre-halves to drive us forward and set the tempo.

I thought he had a magnificent game because there was a lot of talk about Trey and Ioni going into this one, obviously, because he's a young kid going up against Arsenal in a Premier League game. And that's huge. And he deserves that opportunity because he's been brilliant this season for us, whenever he's put on the red shirt. But you just can't give Arsenal one goal lead. They're too good defensively to be able to do that. We had opportunities in the first half, I think Vert maybe hits the bar from a free kick, but the big one was McAllister. He probably is a good ball in by Kerkhas. I think it was Kerkhas anyway. It was a great ball in by Kerkhas, one of the only good ones that he played actually. And McAllister, you bank on him there because he's the type of player that you want to arrive. In fact, if there was any of Liverpool's players arriving there, I would have loved McAllister to be there. And it looked, to be honest, it looked harder to to get it over than it did to get it on on Ryan's goal. But, you know, that's unfortunate. You go in at 0-0, you're in the ascendancy in the game and you're thinking to yourself, you can come out of this. You can really sort of build on that first half and take it into the second and, you know, hopefully get a goal. And unfortunately, it wasn't to be. I thought Barcawla was good in the first half. I didn't think he was very good in the second half. Lost the ball too many times, in my opinion. But, you know, that will happen. I didn't think Gapow had a particularly good game. Izak would really struggle to get into the game, of course. You know, maybe we've done that quite a few times, to be honest with you, but Samozlai comes on and he's running round and he's pressing. But it's about arson for me, this, because there's such big time waste, there's such big cheats, they go down at every single opportunity. They just, they play the dark hearts, and it's just like flipping Stoke in it. It's just like watching Stoke for a few years ago, except they've got really good players doing it and they're really difficult to break down. They didn't have the opportunities. They had a couple in that second half where, I thought it was maybe, in the first half where it was poor defending by Liverpool. There was one that fizzed past the post, and I thought to myself, it's going to go in this and it's going to be a long way back. But we kept on going, we kept on trying. It just wasn't to be today, unfortunately. I thought Jacque had a really good game going up against the cheater, Kai Abert. I thought Virgil van Dijk had a good game and he was trying to power us forwards later on and really trying to, you know, obviously try and make a difference and he would stay up and he would try and get a goal or whatever. The goalkeeper, I thought Alisson's kicker again was quite poor. I thought he looked a little bit nervous when the ball was at his feet. I thought Kerkhez was up and down. Some of the duels really good. Some of the standing off, the way I did like so much. In terms of the midfield, I thought Traian Jani was brilliant. I thought McAllister again, setting that tempo, just doing what he always does, being feisty in the middle of the park, fighting for absolutely everything, and just trying to get Liverpool on the front foot. But the movement ahead of them wasn't great. You know, Baird gives a couple of easy ones away, makes a couple of good passes as well, but ultimately wasn't able to make a massive difference today, unfortunately, for us.