I'm not part of the Wenger-out team by any means, but he really needs to re-consider his tactics mid game. What possible reason is there for taking Giroud off with 20 minutes to go just as we were building up pressure? Liverpool would have obviously taken a point before the game started, so it's pretty clear that they would protect the scoreline at 0-0 with a quarter of the game left and hit us on the counter. Makes no sense to bring on Walcott who poses zero aerial threat against an already retreating Liverpool backline and who just isn't smart enough as a striker to fashion chances against good teams. And that's exactly what happened. All of our chances came when when Giroud was still on the pitch; literally nothing happened once Walcott came on. Just because Giroud missed a good chance doesn't mean you take him off; he'll bury one of those eventually if given enough chances. If we brought on Walcott for Ramsey or Ozil, it would have opened up the game more with some much needed width on the right (aside from Bellerin there was NO width whatsoever on the right until Ox came on - all of our attacks came from the left). And it would have allowed us to resort to launching it up into the box for Giroud to knock down if all else failed. Shocking tactics.
Another disappointing game. Not a good start to the season. Already 5 points behind City, and we're short on a competent CB, a WC striker and some backup for Coquelin at least.
At least our defense improved massively in the second half, and Cech was outstanding. Hopefully this will be confidence boost he needs to start performing at his best again. We'll need it.