3.Arsenal still lack the big game mentality
Yet again, Arsenal failed to turn up in a big game. This was supposed to the beginning of a tough series of games, and the performance from some of the players was abysmal in the first half. Even through the performance picked up in the second half, the game was long gone by then, and Liverpool had taken their foot off the gas.
Mesut Ozil yet again failed miserably in a big game, something that he is quite prone to doing. His passing was shoddy, and he was caught on the ball far too often, most notably for Liverpool’s third goal. The body language of some of the other Arsenal players too was far from the best, and once the first goal went in the net in the opening minute of the game, the shoulders drooped, and it looked as though it would be a long 90 minutes; and indeed it was.