Arsenal legend David Seaman makes prediction for Liverpool showdown | 8H6CZ3I | 2024-02-03 16:08:01
David Seaman has backed Arsenal to supply a 'statement' performance and get the higher of Liverpool on this weekend's crunch match within the Premier League.
The Gunners, last yr's runners-up, enjoyed robust begin to the campaign however stuttered over the winter interval, with Mikel Arteta's males managing just one in seven matches in all competitions across a barren spell.
Arsenal have, though, recovered with back-to-back victories over Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest to stay inside five points of leaders Liverpool forward of the edges' eagerly anticipated meeting at the Emirates.
A rampant Liverpool have suffered just one defeat all season in the English prime flight which came on their last trip to north London again in September, when Joel Matip's last-minute own objective handed Tottenham a 2-1 win.
Jurgen Klopp's determination to step down at the finish of the marketing campaign has added an additional motivation for Liverpool's squad and Seaman believes Arsenal have a tremendously 'robust' recreation ahead.
'It's a press release recreation. Once I take a look at Liverpool I simply see a group that's on type, I see an amazing staff, I see an awesome squad. For us to take points off them can be large,' the ex-Arsenal and England goalkeeper stated on the Seaman Says podcast.
'I see this as similar to the Manchester City recreation, when Metropolis got here to the Emirates, and it's a chance of creating a press release and making individuals speak slightly extra about Arsenal as a result of, in the mean time, all of the speak is about Metropolis and Liverpool.
'We need to get again into that equation and that starts by, I used to be going to say getting some extent… however I'm considering three factors. However it's going to be so robust.'
Seaman urged Arsenal's players to look to their 1-0 victory at residence Mancheser City again in October for inspiration once they take to the sector towards Liverpool.
'These are the games you've obtained to win, there's little question about it. Especially at house.
'We made the assertion towards City and once you get a chance like that with their star players out it's much more of a lift.
'However it also adds a bit of bit extra strain because individuals can be considering we're going to beat them because they haven't received Salah.
'If you take a look at that frontline, [Diogo] Jota is available in and he's lethal and their alternative are nonetheless mega players so it is going to be troublesome nevertheless it's a chance for Arsenal to make that statement.
'It's time to get back to enterprise and these are the video games that rely. Take points off the groups above you and that's what issues.'
Requested for his score prediction, Seaman replied: 'I'm going to go for 1-Zero to Arsenal. I quite like that score.'
Liverpool will probably be with out the injured Mohamed Salah on the Emirates, but Seaman informed Arsenal's defence to be cautious of the menace posed by Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez in the Egyptian's absence.
'We'd take quite a number of of their frontline at Arsenal, if I'm trustworthy,' he added.
'It's something the place we've been missing this season, there's little question about that.
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'You'd take any of them. I see Jota doing his unimaginable ending again final weekend and even in the FA Cup. His finishing is unbelievable and it's lethal.
'On prime of that, you've obtained [Darwin] Nunez scoring objectives now and when Salah comes again he all the time scores objectives, so that you'd in all probability take that frontline and some others.'
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