3 points for Arsenal

                     Sunday afternoon saw Arsenal beat Liverpool 2-0 at their hunting ground Anfield.This game was going to tell us the state of the rebuilding projects at each club and it just did that.With the 2-0  victory its now 3 consecutive clean sheets for us.Arsenal has never had 3 consecutive clean sheets at the start of the season in the last 88 years.Now who would have thought it was possible to achieve this given our  defensive shambles last season and that we did not bring any new players in that department.The only change   is we brought defense minded Steve Bould as our assistant manager and boy we are already reaping its benefits.

                It was a brilliant defensive display by the gunners.Clearly Bould has worked very hard on improving our defense and his magic has worked.Manone,Vermaelen, Martesacker,Jenkinson,Gibbs performed heroics with crucial  interceptions and clinical tackling.The work rate of  Cazorla,Chamberlain, Podolski and  Giroud was great too as they were back helping all the time.Arsenal has suffered from a defensive massacre during set pieces as we have seen it so many times in the recent past but yesterday we looked in far better shape against set pieces.In the last few seasons Gunners have looked vulnerable when their passing game hasn't quite worked as expected.There were many improvements in yesterday's game.Arteta and Diaby played very close to the defense minimizing the gaps between the lines and easing the pressure on the centre backs.Secondly we showed the ability to hold on the ball to ease the pressure on many occasions and slowing down the tempo when they were on the attack which eventually led to many attacking opportunities for us.In all,Arsenal's defending wasn't haphazard,reliant on last gap tackles or desperate attempts to block.Thus our defense looked assured and forced the hosts to prove their creativity to break us down,in which they clearly failed.

                     On the attacking front,we were a continuous threat on the counter.Liverpool looked quite organized defensively for most parts of the game but made some fundamental mistakes and the Gunners punished them with ruthless and clinical finishing.We opened our scoring account by hammering 2 goals in the Liverpool net.Podolski and Cazorla were on the scoresheet.The new signings are clicking,slowly but steadily.First goal was classic example of a good counter attack.It started with an interception by Vermaelen who combined the interception and a forward pass in one touch.Podolski received the pass halfway  in the defensive half  and given the fact that the positioning of the Liverpool players was awful with central defenders 20-25 yards behind their midfielders,he was able to turn.Cazorla had acres of space to receive the pass and drive forward.Podolski  also burst forward without effective tracking from Johnson.Cazorla played a beautiful pass to Podolski who was to his left and Podolski unleashed that deadly left foot to score the first goal for Arsenal of this campaign.For the second goal the duo combined again but this time they swapped roles as Podolski became the provider while Cazorla opened his Arsenal account.Not to take anything away from the quality of the play but Rodgers would yet again be disappointed with some of his players.Shelvey stopped tracing the Spaniard's run who had a one-two pass with Podolski and finishing from short distance and bringing home 3 points.Reina should have done better,The should have got hold of the ball but it went though his hands in the net.

                        It could have been 3-0 had Giroud not missed that sitter.Yet another easy miss for the Frenchman.I wonder what it would have done to his confidence.I don't want to be critical about him.Lets just give the lad more time.He will come good for us.All in all a very good result for us specially after the disappointing transfer deadline day.I still believe that we should have bought 2 players(striker and a defensive midfielder) but I am eager to be proven wrong.Arteta and Diaby look solid in the holding role and Wilshere is set to return in a month so even our attack will get a boost.Just hope there are no injuries because honestly we do lack depth in the squad.Eagerly waiting for 15th September for our home match.