Okay, so I just watched our game against Liverpool and wow, what a strange feeling. We was top of the league and this was our big chance, you know? To really push ahead. But it ended up just being nothing, a 0-0 draw that sort of leaves you empty.
Honestly, I thought we looked the better team for most of the first half. We had the ball a lot and were putting it into their box. But then, nothing ever really happened with it. Like, we couldn’t find that last little pass or shot. It gets you frustrated, just watching all that work and no reward.
Then Liverpool almost scored from our own mistake! Their young defender, Bradley, he chipped it right over our keeper and it hit the bar. I nearly couldn’t watch. He was actually their best player, which says something. They didn’t even have a proper striker playing, which makes it feel even more like we missed a trick.
Our manager, Arteta, he said after we was too “unprecise” with the final ball. I think he’s right. He put on some substitutes to try change it, like Gabriel Jesus and Martinelli. But then Martinelli got a silly yellow card right at the end for pushing that Bradley kid when he was hurt. Not a good look.
For me, our new striker Gyokeres had a rough night. He came off without even taking a shot. The fans gave him a really low rating online, which is harsh but maybe fair. Sometimes the ball just doesn’t fall for you.
The Liverpool manager sounded happier than ours, which is weird for a draw at our place. He said his team was disciplined without their main attacker. I guess for them, getting a point here is okay. For us, it feels like we lost two.
So now we’re still six points clear, which is good. But it could have been eight. When you play a rival at home and they’re missing key players, you probably need to win. We didn’t. Now I just hope we don’t look back in May and think about this one.
We play next in the FA Cup. Maybe that’s a good thing, to think about something else for a bit. This game just leaves me with a bit of a “what if” feeling. We was in control but never in control, if that makes any sense.
Yeah, the atmosphere in the stadium, it went so quiet by the end. Like all that energy from the start just leaked away. You could see it on the players faces too, they knew. Sometimes a draw feels like a win and sometimes it feels worse than a loss. This was one of those.
I keep thinking about the middle of the park, you know? Partey and Odegaard were tidy but it was all so safe. Like we were waiting for a perfect chance that never comes. Liverpool didn’t have that problem, they just launched it quickly whenever they got it. Different ways to see the game, I suppose.
What’s funny is Manchester City and Villa both dropped points last week. That’s the real sting. The table could have looked so different, it was right there for us. Now everyone will say the pressure is back on us. They’ll say we got scared when it mattered. I hate that narrative but what can you say?
Typical Arsenal, isn’t it? Always making the hard bits look easy and the easy bits look impossible. We’ll probably go and play a brilliant, fluid game in the FA Cup now. Makes no sense. I need a weekend to forget this one, but of course I’ll just be thinking about it until the next game.
