Liverpool 4-0 Arsenal
The question football betting fans is a simple one. Are Liverpool breathtakingly brilliant or are Arsenal absolutely abject?
After football games like this at Anfield, the truth probably lies somewhere in between.
Certainly, the betting odds on a range of issues have just shortened.
Can Liverpool deliver a sustained title challenge? Has Alexis Sanchez, and possibly Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, played their last games for the Gunners?
Will Arsene Wenger survive to see out his new two year deal?
For the hosts, the plaudits.
Time after time they carved open Arsenal with high pressing and an intensity of movement the Gunners could rarely deal with.
Their attacking pace ensured Arsenal endured another beating at Anfield.
Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Daniel Sturridge scored the goals on an afternoon when the gulf in scoreline would have been even greater but for the evergreen Petr Cech.
The devastating counter-attacks will trouble better teams than Arsenal and Liverpool fans simply revelled in this occasion.
For the visitors, the post-mortem.
For as devastating as Liverpool were, Arsenal were shambolic.
For a club which once possessed the likes of Tony Adams and Patrick Vieira, it was embarrassing to see so few leaders, such little desire in the Arsenal ranks.
They were all over the place at the back, torn apart time and time again and, worse still, showed little fight and passion once they went behind.
Even Wenger – whose own future now comes under all the same old scrutiny –could not have imagined how wretched they would be.
The third goal summed up much of their afternoon as Salah dispossessed Hector Bellerin more than 60 yards from goal and was allowed to sprint half the length of the pitch completely unmarked before slotting home.
Game over.
Arsenal fans left Anfield long before the end.
The end of the road may have just arrived for many connected with Arsenal too.
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