they gonna pack that midfield Rice, Odegaard, Jorginho and probably Havertz too sometimes takes deeper roles, if we go out with players that dont track back a lot (KDB), or lose 50% of the ball (Alvarez) and Rodri will be on his own mostly, well this could turn into a shit weekend.
what we need is control of game and the tempo, make it a tight game with few chances where we hopefully can keep a clean sheet.
main worry is defense, under pressure they tend to make big mistakes, and sometimes even without a critical pressure they come up with something like Ake vs Liverpool a short backpass pretty much threw us off the rails.
Liverpool will win by about 3 goals easily in the earlier game putting extra pressure on both us and Arse.
we have a shit record overall vs top squads this season apart from rags, not one win so far vs Arse (2 -league and super cup), Pool (2), Chelsea (2), Villa/Spurs 1-1 game.