3. An equaliser was inevitable
It would appear that Arsenal are the team who love to let in a last-minute goal – ending up in us either losing the game or granting the opposition an equaliser. This is almost on par with Arsenal’s love of keeping their fans in suspense and grabbing a last-minute equaliser or winning goal. Today, despite Liverpool being down to ten men for the last ten minutes of the match, was one of those games where Arsenal couldn’t keep the equaliser out. As usual Arsenal became complacent. With nine minutes of stoppage time things started looking very dangerous from the 95th minute onwards. Liverpool were suddenly all over us like a rash. As soon as Arsenal cleared the ball appeared back in the box as if by magic. A game of pinball ensued. Finally, in the 97th minute Liverpool scored their equaliser from a set piece, the first of their season. The question I’m sure that everyone was asking:
Terrible defending by Arsenal. How do you not mark Skrtel?
— Matt – RBNYTweets (@RBNYTweets) December 21, 2014