Very disappointing! Carragher is normally a no nonsense defender but for some reason the sheer presence of Henry made him want to play like Henry, he should have whacked it out!

Full marks to Arsenal, Three great goals and a solid defence, I dont even think almunia got his gloves dirty.

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strange time to use Dudek...but well, all the backline wasn't good enough today, even our Carra. we got 3 days to think about it.
we'll fight back!

Come on Blackburn!

I laughed when the Arsenal fans started singing ''Are you Tottenham in disguise''.

It was an ok game, but Liverpool were just simply bettered on the day.

Damn it! How many corners did we have 20? Just couldn't get that final ball in for the strikers even though I felt we dominated the game. Arsenal just hit us on the counter and Senderos must have headed every single cross away.

Dudek was off the line for the first goal. Finnan should have closed Rosicky on the second (or anyone of the five players around him) and as for the third, there was no way the defence could have coped with that pace.

Disappointed.

LMAO

Where's your Everton v Blackburn thread?

Begins 2morrow

Wanted Liverpool to win this one, although it was nice to see Rosicky finally give an all out performance and grab 2 very well taken goals, Arsenal hardly got the ball out their own half in the last 20 minutes, and Aurelio nearly scored what would've been a classic cup goal.

I'd already made one before you posted that actually

its here

wahey .... great win for us , i was surprised by Almunia being in goal but he was hardly troubled during the match ...only a few shots caused him to go down quick for the ball ...the rest were fairly easy catches or went well wide ...the same for Dudek really , apart from the three goals we hardly made him work that hard during the match .

You are right Yeekiat , Dudek maybe was off his line for the first goal and Rosicky should have been closed down for his second . As for the goal by Henry , maybe Carragher should have just knocked the ball out of play but most times he would have won that ball ...Henry is however special and just used his pace to get around Caragher and went on to cooly slot the ball past Dudek .

I must admit though up until then we were struggling a bit to hold Liverpool off after they had got a goal back and were looking dangerous ...a few nervous moments there .

Finally though despite Liverpool probably having the most possesion it is goals that wins matches and so Arsenal are through to the next round ....

Yeah, it was a pretty good game in the end. The first half hour odd was a "minger" as Hansen put it, but once Arsenal stamped their class with two brilliantly crafted goals, then Liverpool were truly on the back foot. All the pundits were rightly harping on about the lack of tackling for the second goal when Liverpool had 9 players back only for Rosicky to plant it in the corner, but they didn't mention names. Watch it again and see Gerrard, the darling of English football, half heartedly stick out a pathetic leg to stop him, it made me laugh! He's the skipper for crying out loud, set the example!!

Liverpool, by pumping an incredible amount of long balls into the box managed to get back in the game, it was like watching wimbledon at times. But Arsenal's counter attacking threat always carried some potency with Henry and Van Persie's pace. What a goal too, but the less said of Carragher's defending the better. I was surprised Bellamy didn't get used, as this would have posed the Arsenal defence with a different kind of problem. They knew the second ball after Crouch's flick ons were crucial, and they dealt with it in the main, the goal aside. Having said all this, if Liverpool got the penalty which they should have got, then it might have been a different game. And if Aurelio stuck it in the corner for 2-2.

But in the end, the better footballing team won. From a Yiddo...biting my lip...congratulations Arsenal.

Dudek is not a reserve keeper... He's got enough talent to play every week... It's a bit hard to sit on the bench for months on end and then suddenly get a tap on the shoulder, here keep against Arsenal... "especially" for a keeper... Why won't Liverpool just let him go... Dudek has been keen to leave for around 2years but Benitez is being an a$$...

Oh well, About the game, Rosicky is finally starting to show his real colours... bad defending from Liverpool though. It's like Liverpool has lost it's soul and fight this season... dunno how to explain it...And Gerrard is not the same, maybe the world cup scarred him...lol

HUGE dissappointment!

Garcia....OMG, I just don't understand why he's even on the starting line up or the team for that matter....he just F's everything up....there was at least 4 freakin fouls from him and on him as well....what a waste of time....

Henry's goal was an excellent sole effort BUT...I would say he got lucky b/c the Dudek missed an easy save.

Huge dissappointment for Liverpool:(

Kuyt played his heart out as usual...cheers to him

how on earth has carragher avoided criticism for henry's goal?

that was disgraceful defending

True it was poor defending,but Carragher has saved us that many times he doesn't deserve criticism,he was trying to keep the ball in to save Arsenal from wasting time and simply got it wrong,these things happen but no way am i gonna criticise Carragher..

i see your point but he should still take the blame for the goal ahead of dudek

Look back to my first post match comments.

well done Arsenal!!!

Good analysis of the game