Nah, I think Arsenal were the better team and probably did deserve the win
In fairness you came with a gameplan and ended up executing it extremely well.
If Mourinho goes to the Emirates and does that it would be considered the perfectly executed game plan, if only Benteke polished his shot off.
Both teams had chances to win it and enjoyed periods of dominance. Arsenal enjoyed the most possession and most shots, we had more shots on target and more corners. They play a careful, possession and passing style but lacked the killer last pass and we play more direct and were guilty of a few poor first touches.
I'd call the game straight down the middle - but for Petr Cech and may have won, but for an excited linesman and they may have won.
Straight down the middle (f you completely ignore the fact you were given a lifeline (AGAIN) with legitimite onside goal ruled out.)
Bad calls go both way - at no point have I argued that the Arsenal 'goal' was offside - I agree that it was a bad call but it's all chaos theory. An early goal may have caused panic for Liverpool and ended up with a thumping and it could just have well spurred them onto being more clinical and relentless in attack. Calling a games balance based on one event is short sighted.
- Fact - Arsenal dominated possession
- Fact - Liverpool had more shots on target
- Fact - Arsenal had more shots overall
- Fact - Liverpool had more corners
- Fact - scoring an early goal does not equate to winning a game.