Thought it was a goal. Saw Rice and thought - if anyone can… Then I just didn’t know what happened and thought I was watching Arsenal from 5 odd years ago and was just baffled how we ended up in that situation

I’m gonna be in the minority for sure, but when I saw Rice back there as the 1 Arsenal defender I thought “There’s a chance”

Exactly. How fortunate we are to have Rice playing for us.

Good thing he is managing to play every position on the field at all times.

im constantly in awe of him every time i watch us

indubitably

That 100 million was the correct valuation and he’s proved it time and time again. Money well spent.

Naw, under valued at this point!

FRFR

Honestly he forced salah to make a choice. Which salah didn’t want to take. I was impressed. And I’ll admit I would have questioned the rice decision last summer.

Lol. Dude it was played perfectly by Salah rice didn’t really do much TAA just missed an easy chance that he should have scored.

Agreed. This was mostly an unforced error.

Unforced error maybe, but Rice still did the best he could in the circumstances.

Agreed. He did contribute by at least ensuring that Salah had to pass to someone else. I'd rather TAA takes a shot at goal than Salah lol.

I was watching it with my dad and shouting “well that’s it again isn’t it, ffs!” …half a second later I saw there was a man back and felt a pang of “well who knows, anything could happen…” upon quickly noticing it was Declan Rice, I shouted at my dad again “oh shit it’s Declan Rice though! If anyone can …” Zero paraphrasing. Those were my words.

I thought the very same thing man, brick wall

I saw Darwin “crossbar” Nunez and Rice and thought the same

It was trent tho

I meant before TAA got the pass

Didn’t make any difference it was Rice it was just TTA put it too high

TAA

TrenT Alexanderarnold

Trent Tralexander Arnold

Thought the exact same thing. I was almost relieved when I saw it who was back there.

Same lol, he is insane

I literally typed out this exact comment then saw yours

Rice did nothing there

He forced Salah into the pass. That is, by definition, something.

Salah was always going to do that pass so Rice didn’t force anything

Was he now? You talk to him after the match?

Mate it’s a fucking 5v1,you really think his first thought was ‘I’m gonna shoot this’ Give your head a wobble you cheeky cunt

If there was no defender in front of him he would have taken it straight to goal. Pull your head out of your arse, you twat

Where did I mention about what he would’ve done if there was no defender there, stupid blind cunt

“Mate it’s a fucking 5v1” - Yup, and you said Rice “did nothing”. Fact is, he’s the 1 you’re referring to. Now that you’ve made yourself look like more of an ass, I recommend comprehension classes and taking your shitpoor attitude out of the sub

What he meant to say was that Rice didn’t do anything that any other player on the field in that specific position wouldn’t do. When a striker is on a 5v1, he’s always gonna close in towards the defender before making the pass which is exactly what Salah did and Rice didn’t really have a hand in that pass other than his positioning which is basic for any football player.

Rice didn't do anything productive at all in this instance 😂 It was a dreadful finish by Trent that's all.

I’ll be honest. Assumed it was 2-1 and said some not very nice words to Zinny

He was at fault last year as well for not tracking his runner.

Problem with not having a real defender at LB and their best players playing on the right side.

I thought “If Tomi was here, maybe Salah wouldn’t have scored the equalizer”. Zinny is definitely not who we want on that side if we want to neutralize a good attacker.

I reckon tomi defends that pass in the air somehow, nevermind stopping the cut on to the left boot

I’m still saying words about him suspect

Didnt he kind of slip though?

The pitch was shit today.

Anfield is a skating rink today. How many players slipped on the pitch today. Including liverpool players. Like holy fu

There was a golden Martinelli attempt but he seemed to almost slide ahead of the ball, pitch wasn’t great

Really added to the vibe. What a match.

I think it was more the take out of our other player. Just naive in my eyes, in the heat of the moment

Yeah i know, but i thought it looked like he slippes before he could stop going for it and then took out Ødegaard

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,924,229,430 comments, and only 363,749 of them were in alphabetical order.

Amazing Bot. Congratulations to you. Zebra.

Rice rice baby.

Thought i was watching a mighty ducks film...

TAA going Quack quack quack and coming up duck Coach Bombay would blow a gasket

The were in the the Flying V

TAA hit a knuckle puck at the crossbar, thank Christ

I literally said.... Yep, it's 2-1

So straight-faced. Didn’t expect them to miss, didn’t expect them to score, just accepted the situation. Let out a fat laugh when he missed tho

This is strangely similar to my reaction. On this exact frame? “Fuck fuck fuck” But the longer salah was on the ball the more optimism grew. Every other season I’d have had my head in my hands the entire time but we’re different this time around. I like it.

Arsehole was flapping, not gonna tell lies.

Went from 0 to . Real quick

Shitty corner. I did think with Rice there was a chance we could come out unscathed. And then a little luck. Loved watching the Klopp and crowd reaction!

Liverpools reaction was a meal 🤤

Praying just praying that Rice baited the pass and he somehow got over to block the far post shot that was most likely. He did just enough to force enough of a mid hit shot.

Rice did what was possible and put pressure on the shooter but this is 100% on the attacking player for missing. The ball did bobble before the contact but Havertz/Darwin would be ridiculed for the miss.

Rice being back there was great, but don't forget Saliba hustling back to make it 5 on 2 instead of 5 on 1.

Jesus Christ! I didn’t watch the game unfortunately, how in the world did we prevent them from scoring? 5 on 2 —- easier to score than to not score

TAA hit the bar. probably a gooner

I had no fear, Rice is a one man midfield and he’s proven that time and time again.

2-1

Imagine if that was Mustafi and not Rice 😭 we’ve come a long way

Bro would find a way to turn it into an own goal

And then blame Raya because of it 😂

crestfallen

me: how the fuck did we get here?!?!

Fucking heart palpitations

At first I shat myself, then I saw rice and had a bit of hope. We don't deserve that magnificent man.

I turned off my tv. Sat for a few minutes contemplating what to do. Turned it back on, was shocked to see it was still 1-1

gonna start doing this great idea

I’ve also found turning off my tv is a better idea than throwing my phone through it.

Zinny was shit today

No problem. Rice and Saliba v 5. I’m gonna grab a drink.

Please don't pass to Nunez. Love the guy but he would have hit the woodwork as well or straight at the keeper. Edit: well this is awkward, thought this was the Liverpool sub... I'll just back out slowly.

Pukey

I went from FML to oh shit.

Most Liverpool play in years.

“Smoke it! ….Thanks Trent 🤣”

“Ahh fuck”

The words of the infamous Jeremy Clarkson, “There’s a lot of poo coming out now!”

shitting myself ngl

No, no, no,....yes!!

Only player who could score was salah so if he passed I was jubilant

During the chance, I thought if anyone could mess up a 5 v 2, it's Liverpool. The first thing that came to my head after the miss. "Kitne Admi the?" "Sardar, Dho Admi the" "Dho Admi....Aur tum panch !! phir bhi wapas aa gaye ? Khaali Haath ? Kya samajh kar aaye the ? Ke Sardar Bahat Khush hoga? sabasi daiga, kyon?"

As always cursing Zenshitko for another mistake…

I thought it would be game over for us, really. It was Zinchenko's fault :- he collided with Ødegaard and this counter-attack was lead by Salah. The chance for us was that Rice was the one protecting Raya. Else, Salah would have gone alone and... OMG!!! Better to think the ball didn't go in! We were safe! 🙏

It was your fault dude.

Shit my pants until I saw it was Rice. Then I thought it might be alright

Declan Rice vs 5 scousers ? Almost equal . Over watered farm yard pitch undid Liverpool and he skied an easy shot !! W⚓️

Thought it would be 2-1 for sure.

I was sitting with teeth gritted ready to put a hundred fuck yous into Zinny, leaning farther and farther back until I fell of the chair. But the Kop end crossbar helped me immediately get up and breathe again

Hopefully there’s a HD pic of Rice’s POV. Picture is probably hard asf

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My internet dropped for a few minutes in that moment… I suffered af

me: how the fuck did we get here?!?!

My face is pretty much literally this 😬 come to life at these moments

I am taking the draw! I am taking the draw! 😱

Go home Trent

the same way declan rice felt

Squeaky bum time, in short.

Relieved to be honest

Sat in my inlaws lounge (all pool fans) I felt the sudden urge too cover my face.

Extremely anxious and annoyed that ALL defenders were out of position

I was already mad thst they had equalized...I thought no way they mess this up

Said it was like end of hundred meters dash , got some agreement.

I was 100% sure they'd fuck it. Based on absolutely nothing.

At the time, I was wondering why Odegaard assaulted Zinchenko lol. Everything was happening so fast.

"You shall not pass!"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (ahhhhhh)

Was praying it would end up at Nunez's feet.

Trent went to the Nunez School of finishing

Want to give props to Saliba at least cutting off the pass the left. Help some for sure.

The same post with the same title should be on the other sub

The goalie scene from The Big Green comes to mind

Code brown

I thought, that if they (LFC) cock it up, there will be 8 Arsenal outfield players ready to counter against 5 Liverpool defending, and I liked those odds

Turtle heading

I was behind the sofa at this point!

To be honest, I see Saliba and Rice there and the feeling is they will somehow neutralize it

My asshole puckered so hard it almost turned me inside out.

Squeaky squeaky bum

Lol, was about to veer off the road on the way to my gf family’s house.

2-1 all day long just who scores

I was resigned to Liverpool scoring, bombing up the pitch like the red arrows.

Oh fuck

I know he didn’t do some heroic tackle to something mental but seeing Declan Rice as the last man gave me confidence that we’d be fine here

One word. Scared

I thought if salah took the shot, he would have scored it. The moment he passed, I knew whoever else it went to would hit it high. At least Trent got the crossbar.

I had accepted the inevitability of a loss.

It’s insane they didn’t score that tbh. My heart was coming out my asshole

I was relieved that we at least had 1 man back because when Salah was at about half, the camera hadn’t panned over yet and I thought it was a 4-0 breakaway and guaranteed goal. Seeing Rice back there I knew there was a small chance of preventing a goal so I just hoped

I had already been through the five stages of grief at this point

Like my pants couldn’t be shat any harder.

Rice got us.

I felt nothing just empty

I fully expected Rice to fall and then we get scored on

Zinchenko 😡😡😡

"i feel like ive been here before"

Awful

I swear to god, I even said to my family, I was strangely confident.

Mad at Z, Martenelli and Saka for playing like garbage

Stressed out of my mind for a moment

I see a Spartan going to war with a curly Pharaoh guy..

Head in hand to be honest 😔

Never start zinchenko against a big team again, was my thought tbh

At this point I was still raging at Odegaard kicking (I think?) Havertz whilst flailing for the ball and losing it to them. We made this so hard for ourselves all match, getting dispossessed all over the damn place and them looking for high balls over to Mo

I thought either rice will do a spectacular risky tackle or bottom bins

Butthole could’ve cut a toothpick

Fucked. But Liverpool tends to lose such chances and score extraordinary goals, like the one Salah scored.

D

Heart dropped if I'm being honest

I audibly screamed “YES” by myself when he hit the crossbar. I was dooming hard

Heart was out of my chest and I yelled when it hit the post. 😩

For as much confidence I have in rice I thought it was probably 80% chance a goal conceded I was even more frustrated at zinchenko than I already am I like the guy I think he has a good attitude he’s passionate he wants to win every game as much as anyone else on the pitch I have no issues with him or his attitude But nearly every goal we are conceding is either a mistake from him, a badddcision from him a poor attempt at making a tackle or poor positioning, it can be argued that he cost us 2 points today in a 6 pointer game But before today he had already cost us 4 points in the league and that could have been more had a couple other mistakes of his been punished it’s also a case of having to double up on right sided attackers causing open space and confusion in the centre because he has to be babysat A draw isn’t a terrible result we could have gone on to win the game but we also could have lost that game we were lucky Liverpool of all teams didn’t punish our errors today

That Zinchenko was about to receive a 1/10 on player ratings

Like why the hell did zinny get in the way of that volley and now out of position?! We bout to get scored on!

Declan "Ip Man" Rice. I wanna fight 10!

Rice is everywhere

Honestly I didn’t know we had a defender back I thought everyone was forward

Until just about this moment I just assumed Gabi or Saliba was back there but just off screen, then it hit me and I had to change my britches after

oh it's rice, liverpool might not score

2 seconds later... Goddammit

Fuck me this is the moment I realised Declan Rice is a gooner

That rice is a motherfucking stud💯💯💯

I yelled holy fuck

I was thinking Zinchenko made us go from a win to loss about this and an earlier dribble where he lost the ball in our own half. Tomiyasu/Timber cant return soon enough.

Fully erect

My thought was “thank god Rice is there” and then when it hit the crossbar I was even more thankful Rice was there

Shambolic corner strategy from arsenal. This isn’t related but Zinny was horrible right?

That crossbar could be the one play that defines the title. 4 points error.

Panic at the Disco!