[Liverweb] Arsenal Match Preview

Liverweb Match Preview

Opponents : Arsenal
Date : Sunday March 12 @ 4pm
Venue : Highbury
TV Coverage : Score, Sky Sports 1, Premiere Sport Portal, Supersport
3, Supersport 8SA, TV8 Turkey, Diema Xtra, NTV+ on-line, C+ Spain,
Galaxie Sport, Sport 2 Hungary, Digit Alb 5, ART Sport 4, C+ Sport
(Pol), Sky Sport Italia 3, Sky Calcio 10, TPS Star, Telesport RO, C+
Sport (D/F/N/S), Megasport

Head to Head - Premiership Head to Head
LAST corresponding Fixture : Arsenal 3 Liverpool 1

Squads : Sami Hyypia is expected to be fit in time for this game and
return to league action having missed the midweek European game.
John Arne Riise will be missing through injury.

Freddie Ljungberg will need a fitness test to assess his
availability after he picked up a knock midweek, Henry and Lehmann
are expected to shake off the knocks they received in the same
match.

Liverpool : Reina, Finnan, Carragher, Agger, Hyypia, Kromkamp,
Traore, Warnock, Luis Garcia, Gerrard, Hamann, Xabi Alonso, Kewell,
Fowler, Crouch, Cisse, Morientes, Dudek

Arsenal : Lehmann, Flamini, Senderos, Djourou, Toure, Eboue,
Fabregas, Gilberto, Diaby, Hleb, Henry, Bergkamp, Ljungberg,
Adebayor, Lupoli, Larsson, Reyes, Song, Pires, Walcott, Almunia.

Team Stats : The Reds go for their 80th league win over the Gunners.
This is the final visit ever to Highbury.

The Reds haven't won at Arsenal in the league since 2000 when Titi
Camara scored the only goal of the game.

The Reds won the home fixture on Valentine's night by the only goal
of the game but have an awful record in London. It's now over a year
since the Reds won in the capital. That last win was a 2-1 win over
Charlton.

Looking at the Reds' overall record against Arsenal in the
premiership you see that the Reds have won 5 of the 13 games away
from home, losing just four. However the last two games have been
losses.

On two occassions the Reds have lost having taken the lead against
Arsenal in the Premiership. They have only once won having fallen
behind.

If the Reds were to win this one it would mean that they have the
best head to head record with Arsenal compared to all other teams
they have faced in the Premiership in terms of points attained. The
Reds have so far accumulated 46 points against Arsenal and only the
47 points with Aston Villa exceeds this.

Player Stats : Robbie Fowler has a liking for Arsenal - he's scored
nine goals for the Reds in the league against Arsenal. On the other
side though Thierry Henry has scored six times for Arsenal against
the Reds in the league including one hat-trick.

Jan Kromkamp will hope to play his tenth Liverpool game in this one.
Competition at right back comes from Steve Finnan who hopes to play
his 125th game for the Reds.

Xabi Alonso will hope to play in his 75th Liverpool game. Alonso has
come on as a sub nine times in the Premiership so far for the Reds.
Steven Gerrard has gone in the opposition an amazing 49 times for
the Reds. Only Danny Murphy and Vladimir Smicer went off more times
in a Liverpool league shirt.

Jose Reyes will hope to make his 50th start in the league for
Arsenal. Gilberto Silva will look to start his 100th Arsenal league
game.

Referee : Steve Bennett - taken charge of 24 games this season and
shown 5 Red cards in the process and 96 yellows.

For the two sides he has taken charge of the Reds on three
occassion - two wins and a draw. For Arsenal he has also officiated
three times and again - two wins and a draw.

Betting : Liverpool 2/1, Arsenal 6/5, Draw : 2/1

Liverweb Prediction : Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1

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