Sundays are continuing to become the new Saturday. Rarely is a worthy match left in the traditional 3pm slot. Arsenal didn’t get off to a good start but they did control the game at Anfield, and Steven Gerrard aside, Liverpool really didn’t have anywhere near enough guile to get anything more than the undeserved draw they managed.

It looked all too predictable as Manuel Almunia shouted at his wall and left half the goal empty for a Stevie G cracker that neatly found the gap between the breaking wall, but I am sure most Gunners fans knew that they would not lose their unbeaten record yesterday. The wonderful Gerrard also stretched the Spanish keeper to two other good saves, but other than a Peter Crouch thunderbolt in the second half Arsene Wenger had it all under control.

Liverpool flooded the midfield, played with one up front and put Andriy Voronin and Dirk Kuyt in unfamiliar wide roles. It was a plan that didn’t really pay off. Cesc Fabregas and Alexander Hleb were soaking up possession and hoping to break through the resolute back line and both Cesc and Eboue both hit the woodwork, leaving the respective rebound to Bendtner and Fabregas himself to squander. A draw still keeps Rafa’s side in the hunt, but in all honesty they do not have the ability to keep up with their rivals and seem toothless up front.

'A draw still keeps Rafa’s side in the hunt, but in all honesty they do not have the ability to keep up with their rivals and seem toothless up front'


Blackburn went to Martin Jol-less White Hart Lane and came up against an improved Spurs side but still came away with a last gasp victory to keep them up with the big-boys. New Tottenham boss, Juande Ramos, was in attendance and was left in no doubt that he has a big job to get the north London outfit out of the relegation zone and back up the table to safety.

In a rough game, Mark Hughes’s side just about did enough to deserve the three points. That leaves Spurs without a win in eight Premier League matches, but oddly enough the Lilywhites have in fact been in the lead in six of those eight matches and I guess that says a lot about a side not delivering on their potential.

Derby County really are in trouble. They have little hope of staying up if they can’t take points at Pride Park, and even though they were not overawed by David Moyes’s Everton they didn’t really offer much resistance to a side controlled magnificently by creative midfielder Mikel Arteta. Bolton’s draw at home to Aston Villa, attended by the lowest league crowd, left Billy Davies side propping the table.
 
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