*Data updated as of October 27, 2024
One of the most attractive meetings right now in the English Premier League is the confrontation between Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal and Arne Slot’s Liverpoolsince on the one hand it is a team that has been working in a great way for years to try to achieve their objectives and on the other is a set that demonstrates an important level despite brand new project in the present campaign.
This Sunday both teams gave a great game from Emirates Stadium to close matchday nine of the English top flight in the 2024-25 campaign, where Despite goals from Bukayo Saka and Mikel Merino for the Gunners, the Reds responded with goals from Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah to end the match in a vibrant two-goal draw..
At the end of the match, Arteta declared his point of view on having let the win slip away in the 81st minute: “It’s really disappointing not to have won the game when you see the opportunities, we should have won the game. The team played very well, we were dominant and had a lot of determination”. It is important to highlight that In their match against Manchester City they also let the three points slip away and that could cost them at the end of the campaign.
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“You don’t want to be in that position, you want to be five points ahead, but this is where we are and, again, the team is alive, the team wants it. I feel it every day, the players who can’t play are upset about not being able to do so, those who get injured, those who are in a good moment. “Things will be solved and we will be in a better place,” Arteta complemented regarding being third place with 18 points.
Arne Slot recognizes Arsenal
On the other side were the words of Arne Slot, who showed his admiration for the work of the Gunners and the Spanish strategist: “An exciting event. In my opinion, Arsenal was the first team better than us. They deserved to be one up at half-time. Both teams continued searching for the result. That’s why today we played a good game.”.
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“What surprises me is that people say we’ve had an easy start, because everyone told me before I came here that there are no easy games in the Premier League, and now suddenly there are.“, commented at another time the Dutch coach, who after his arrival in England has the Reds in second place with 22 points, one point behind Guardiola’s City.
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*Data updated as of October 27, 2024
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