The battle for the top four produced a game that was all about fours, as both managers opted for a boldness of approach: the Fab Four Liverpool forward line against the back four of Arsenal.
Pep Guardiola has said, with a slight element of self-mockery, that his ideal team would feature 11 midfielders. This game seemed to look forward to a future in which everybody is either a forward or an attack-minded full-back and nobody pays too much attention to such dull and necessary parts of the game as defending.
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