180 mins vs Arsenal

Rory Fitzgerald · April 10, 2008

Most sections of the media following Tuesday praised the quality of the game. However, as we all know, it appears that Arsenal have been winning some plaudits mainly from TV pundits - havent seen too much in the paper but a very interesting fact that hasnt been highlighted is this.

Arsenal were ahead 3 times in the tie

1-0 at the Emirates

1-0 at Anfield

2-2 at Anfield

The managed to keep those leads for 3 mins, 17mins and 1mins - thats a total of 21mins that they were ahead for in the whole 180 mins in the tie.

Liverpool on the other hand were effectively ahead in the tie from the 26th min in the 1st leg to the 13th in the second leg, then again from Torres's goal to Adebayors and from Gerrards penalty onwards. Thats a total of 96 mins.

Think about it

Liverpool ahead for 96mins

Draw for 63mins

Arsenal ahead for 21mins

When you think about it, for over half the tie we were ahead, 4 times longer than Arsenal.

Thats something for pundits to think about but also shows the power of our team that it took us no time to bounce back from falling behind 3 times !!

Coyler · April 10, 2008

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