Liverpool can edge Wenger closer to Arsenal exit with Anfield win

“They owe themselves a performance”, he said. That is the situation we are in and we are working on it already.

The last time the two sides met, Liverpool edged the Gunners 4-3 on the opening day.

They said it, part one: “I can’t say too much about Arsenal”.

Only Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez has scored as many Premier League goals as Romelu Lukaku and Harry Kane (17) this season. That we go to just start on a positive attitude.

Liverpool made a profit on the ins and outs last summer but Klopp predicted that another summer of balanced housekeeping was unlikely.

If Lovren is deemed fit enough to figure, it will be just the 13th time this season that he and Joël Matip – Klopp’s first-choice centre-back pairing – have played together.

Nicolas Anelka has defended Le Professeur and insisted that Arsenal’s woes are entirely down to the players’ mentality. “I am 100 percent optimistic again when I think about the Arsenal game on Saturday”.

There is one other sobering statistic for Klopp to consider; after 55 matches in charge, he has amassed 94 points, three fewer than his predecessor Brendan Rodgers had managed at the same stage of his reign.

But Jordan Henderson’s absence due to a foot injury could be problematic.

Liverpool will hand a late fitness test to defender Dejan Lovren but he’s expected to be passed fit after returning to full training following a month out with a knee injury.

AC Milan are plotting an audacious move for Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge, report Calciomercato.

Still, Liverpool’s form against the league’s top teams bodes well (they’re now unbeaten against their top-six rivals) and if Klopp’s men can brush aside Arsenal on Saturday, victory will bring some much-needed relief to Anfield following a hard couple of weeks for the club.

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Liverpool are solid [2.18] favourites here, which might initially strike you as short given their display at the King Power Stadium. If we finish on December 31 – all good! Beating Tottenham Hotspur to close within a point of Mauricio Pochettino’s side was effectively undone by losing on Monday after a Harry Kane hattrick helped to demolish Stoke City. We are somewhere in between. Spurs need the points more, and should just edge it.

“Liverpool are one of the best counter-attacking teams in the country because there is [Sadio] Mane, [Roberto] Firmino, [Philippe] Coutinho and [Adam] Lallana who have got space to run into so they break quickly. We have an opportunity against Bayern after that to show we can cause them problems”.