Arsenal: 4 positives from the 4-0 Liverpool hammering

4. Aaron Ramsdale Remains Outstanding

This wasn’t a game for Ramsdale to flex his distribution muscles. Almost every pass he made was either five yards to one of White or Gabriel, or a long ball into Aubameyang.

But Arsenal left Anfield losing by four goals and their goalkeeper was their best player. Again.

He loved it out there. For a while, anyway.

When the scores were level and he’d made two or three key saves to keep Arsenal in it, the most memorable moment of all was when he tipped Trent Alexander-Arnold’s drive over the crossbar. The grin across his face when he made that save just before the opening goal was something unique. A wry smile before screaming at his defenders to up their game.

Were it not for his interventions then Arsenal could, and should, easily have left Merseyside with their biggest defeat of the Arteta era. Ramsdale never stopped shouting, never stopped organising and barely ever stopped saving.

He’s been on the end of some hammerings during his career but this was his first one at Arsenal, and despite feeling he should have kept out Mane’s header and not fumbled Salah’s first half shot, he can leave feeling he played his part.

What a brilliant goalkeeper he is.