Arsenal 2 – 1 Liverpool: Carling Cup

A good result against a half strength Liverpool team tonight.

We played a mixture of subs (Eduardo, Gibbs, Ramsey, Bendtner), reserves (Senderos, Sylvestre), injury returns (Nasri) and youth players (Gilbert, Eastmond).

The game saw some end to end football by both teams. Arsenal’s passing was exquisite at times, although it got very sloppy towards the end.

Babel was awful for Liverpool and negated almost every attack they attempted, I am glad we didn’t sign him.

Merida’s goal was fantastic, as was Insua’s, Bendtner managed to finish Liverpool off with a good strike on 50 minutes.

Eastmond made a decent debut, I was also really impressed with Nasri – he was fantastic, and looked really hungry for the win. Wenger may have a selection problem with him back in contention.

Overall a good performance, Sanchez Watt, Gibbs, Eduardo, Ramsey, Merida and Nasri particuarly impressed me. Senderos and Sylvestre had good and bad spells in defence. I wouldn’t like to see them against higher quality than Babel and Voronin to be honest.

So through to the next round, with the important game against Tottenham coming up on Saturday at 12.45.