After a hiccup, players from both sides prepared and waited for the referee to blow the whistle for the attack.

"Beep~" A long whistle sounded, and this high-profile Premier League match began on a rainy afternoon.

Arsenal, dressed in blue, bombarded Liverpool's door as soon as the game began, and Sun Xiang and Giroud were all defused by defenders and goalkeepers in succession.

Then Liverpool, who were a little behind, threatened Arsenal's goal first.

In the 11th minute, Henderson dribbled down the middle to Sadio Mane on the left, who then flicked the ball back from Welbeck and Mustafi to Henderson, who was cutting in at high speed.

The ball was passed a little deep, Henderson took the ball with his left foot, turned and slid forward with his right foot into the box, and then curled a left-footed shot before Koscielny could block it, the ball hit the left-hand crossbar and went over the goal, and the Liverpool fans behind the goal shook their hands in disappointment.

In the 25th minute, Arsenal also created a chance.

Welbeck won the ball on the left and faced Emrejan, he shook his centre of gravity left and right, accelerated when the opponent's centre of gravity was a little off, and then sent a cross, Giroud in the box made some small movements on Matip's body and jumped, and the ball was confiscated by goalkeeper Karius.

Matip, who was sitting on the ground, got up to complain to the referee, signaling that Giroud's jump was suspected of a foul. However, the referee was far away from the place of the crime at that time, and the crowd in the penalty area was dense, so the referee did not say anything.

Immediately after the 34th minute, Emrejan tried to find Mane on the left with a long pass on the right side of the midfield, but the pass line was a little low, and it was judged by Xhaka before it reached the left side.

However, Xhaka's clearance then said it was a clearance, but in fact it was like a pass, directly to Henderson in front of him.

"Oh ~ Arsenal's mistake! Henderson takes the ball straight into the box! ”

Welbeck tried to jump up to clear the ball, but the ball seemed to be too slippery after the snow, and it turned into a backlash.

Originally, Henderson's ball pass was not good, but Heibei's rub just happened to pass the ball to Mane very comfortably. Despite the subsequent tugging and tugging behind him, it allowed Mane into the box.

Thankfully, Petr Cech's attention was so focused that he made a timely block to prevent Arsenal from conceding a goal.

'Arsenal have been great up front, but there are problems at the back and it looks like Arsene Wenger needs to record his half-time remonstrance.

Mane was smiling to himself as he ran, he really didn't expect the ball to appear in front of his eyes so coincidentally, otherwise maybe he could have done better.

Just four minutes later, Gomez threw a throw-in and Emrejan got on the back of Xhaka's turn, who then made a tackle to stop him from continuing the attack but was unsuccessful, and Emrejan dribbled all the way down the middle.

"Go up and stop him!" Petr Cech reminded his team-mates loudly.

Koscielny was the first to rush forward.

At this point, there was a big gap on the left side of Arsenal, and it seemed that Bellerin had not yet arrived before the assist.

Salah had a change of position with Sadio Mane, this time with him supporting on the left.

Seeing Salah in the middle of the void, Emrejan passed the ball over.

"Damn, what about the defenders on the right?" Mustafi complained, and then he rushed up to make up for it, while the defensive task behind him was handed to Koscielny.

Salah did not stop the ball in front of the passing ball, but shot directly with his feet, but seemed to want to exert force too much, and the arc of the ball was too big and high, high above the crossbar.

This is also the second anti-aircraft gun that the grandstand fans have received in the first half.

Arsenal have been a bit passive for a while.

"Be aggressive defensively! Pay attention to the awareness of assisting in defense! Arsene Wenger shouted from the sidelines, hoping his players could hear.

As the saying goes, if you do it again and again, you can't do it again, and if you do it again, you can't do it again. Liverpool seized the fourth chance of Arsenal's defensive error, and Wenger's shouting did not change substantially.

In the final minute of normal time, Liverpool had a chance to play a touchline ball up front, but Gomez's throw-in was cleared by Monreal and the ball fell near midfield.

Milner aggressively scrambled for possession and kicked the ball back again.

The ball didn't go far and Xhaka played the ball past Giroud in front. Giroud saw Wilshere behind him also moving forward, so he got the ball and did it back again, and then continued to run forward to find an opportunity to match the counter-attack.

But it seems that the 'threat' behind him failed to grasp what Giroud meant, and he couldn't get to the ball.

This made it perfect for Henderson behind him, who took advantage of Arsenal's defensive formation to be a little loose after taking the ball, and wanted to dribble the ball all the way, Salah came back to the top of the box to respond, and Henderson passed the ball to him.

Henderson didn't stop his feet after the pass and continued to run to the left to take away an Arsenal defender, which also gave Salah room to adjust to the right.

Salah, who was in excellent form, took the ball to the right and fired a low shot straight away, but Mustafi made a tackle but couldn't get to the end of the ball in time, which made it more difficult for Cech, and by the time he reacted to the ground again, it was too late for the ball to hit the left-hand post and bounce into the goal.

Klopp was thrilled to see the net vibrating, and he hugged his assistant excitedly, and the ball certainly made it easier for them in midfield.

'Arsenal paid the price for their defence and it always felt like they made too many mistakes in central midfield today and that always gave them chances.

'Jurgen Klopp must be very happy, it must feel very good to walk into the dressing room after winning, but Arsene Wenger on the Arsenal side can't laugh, he doesn't even pull the practice.'

After conceding the goal, the expressions of the two managers were in stark contrast.

Wenger looked serious, he had long thought of such a scene, but he didn't expect it to come at such a time.

There was only one minute of stoppage time in the first half, and with 20 seconds left in stoppage time, Arsenal picked up a set-piece in front.

'It's Arsenal's last chance and it looks like they're hoping for an equaliser.'

Almost all of the high points on the pitch were concentrated in the box, with Mustafi, Olivier Giroud and Monreal desperately looking for a breakthrough with good headers.

The referee's whistle blows and Mesut Ozil's set-piece is sent into the box.

The ball fell to the back of the penalty area and Mustafi struggled to get to it, but because it was difficult to hit the goal directly, he chose to head it into the crowd in front of the goal.

His duel squeezed Lovren in front of him, and the latter's finish stunned his teammates around him.

Olivier Giroud in the middle of the box took the opportunity to leap high and head over without any interference.

Because the ball was a little high, Giroud couldn't get the power to top it.

The Liverpool players who reacted first looked at Giroud, who had landed the ball, only to find that the ball had been pushed elsewhere, so they began to scramble to find the trail of the football.

Joel Matip, who was just in the middle of the ball, was the first to see it, and then he faced the ball to clear it.

But he committed a defensive taboo, that is, watching the ball and not looking at people.

Behind him, Sun Xiang actually jumped one step ahead of him.

With the help of a strong waist and abdomen, and then a little more pressure on Matip's shoulder, his time in the air was increased.

Poor Matip, this is the second time he has been crushed in this game.

When Matip found Sun Xiang behind him, it was too late, he couldn't jump again, and could only watch Sun Xiang put the ball into the goal on his body.

At 1-1, Arsenal equalised a minute later, just as stoppage time ran out when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the half.