{"id":35125,"date":"2025-08-31T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35125\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:25:08","slug":"roy-keane-says-rice-habit-sums-up-arsenal-failings-in-liverpool-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35125\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane Says Rice Habit Sums Up Arsenal Failings In Liverpool Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have secured a potentially key victory in the Premier League title race, gaining an early advantage over title rivals Arsenal with a 1-0 win at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>The first half was a rather drab affair, one that featured very little goalmouth action. Arsenal looked the more dangerous team, although their opportunities were largely limited to set-pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool would grow into the game as the second half went on, looking like the more likely to score. In the end, it would take a moment of absolute genius from Dominik Szboszlai to finally break the deadlock.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"hu\" dir=\"ltr\">Dominik Szoboszlai. WOW. \ud83d\ude80 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AmSa5lVgcx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/AmSa5lVgcx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1962202238962606346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That would prove to be the decisive moment of the game, with Liverpool going to on to claim a huge three points.<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/alejandro-garnacho-chelsea-manchester-united-639090\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Questionable Alejandro Garnacho Chelsea Comments Sure To Rattle Manchester United Fans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/evan-ferguson-roma-liverpool-alexander-isak-639067\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Report &#8211; Evan Ferguson&#8217;s Roma Form Could Help Liverpool Land Alexander Isak<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roy Keane: Annoying Declan Rice Habit Sums Up Arsenal Issues Vs Liverpool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was a massive win for Liverpool, although Arsenal will be disappointed to have come away empty handed.<\/p>\n<p>They looked like the better side in the first half, but when the time came to go and win the game, Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side seemed hesitant to take more risks in attack. In contrast, the home side were intent on going for broke.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sky Sports after the final whistle, Roy Keane said that Liverpool&#8217;s willingness to attack was the difference between the sides. He also gave Declan Rice&#8217;s continuous attempts to take the sting out of the game that sums up the issues Arsenal have when it comes to winning the biggest fixtures.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Arsenal&#8217;s attacking play wasn&#8217;t good enough&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s great when you have a defensive record like they have and they are very good at set-pieces, you&#8217;ve got to give Arsenal a thumbs up for that.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re just depending on that all the time and then you&#8217;re coming to Liverpool away, Liverpool were defending them well, obviously it&#8217;s hard to score at Liverpool. Do something a little bit different.<\/p>\n<p>[Declan] Rice was walking up taking corners and it was taking ages. Slowing the game down is part of their tactics and getting people in position.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;re looking at Arsenal thinking &#8216;do something off the cuff, do something quickly&#8217;. There was a bit of rush in their at the end when they were chasing the goal, but in general play you&#8217;re thinking &#8216;do something quick&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In general play they&#8217;re still a bit robotic. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with set-pieces, but you have to find something else.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you don&#8217;t get what you deserve in this game. You&#8217;ve got to find a way to win football matches.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Arsenal boasted an unbeaten record against the other &#8216;big six&#8217; clubs over the last couple of years, although quite a few of those games ended as draws. Mikel Arteta is yet to win at either Anfield or The Etihad as a manager, fixtures that have often proven to be decisive wins in the title race in recent seasons.<\/p>\n<p>As for Liverpool, this victory will give them confidence that they can go on and claim a second successive Premier League title over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/chris-sutton-celtic-liam-scales-ireland-639061\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Sutton Says Celtic&#8217;s Use Of Ireland Star Sums Up Failings Of The Club<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have secured a potentially key victory in the Premier League title race, gaining an early advantage over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2725,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-35125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}