Liverpool vs Arsenal

20 November 2021 · Premier League · 2021/22 · Referee Michael Oliver

Full time 4 – 0

Half-time: 1–0

Sadio Mané 39’
Diogo Jota 52’
Mohamed Salah 73’
Takumi Minamino 77’

Match summary

Liverpool won comfortably, 4-0 at home to Arsenal. Liverpool led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Sadio Mané put Liverpool ahead with a header in the 39th minute, set up by Trent Alexander-Arnold. In the second half, Diogo Jota made it 2-0 in the 52nd minute, Mohamed Salah made it 3-0 in the 73rd minute, set up by Sadio Mané, and Takumi Minamino made it 4-0 in the 77th minute, set up by Trent Alexander-Arnold.

The chances backed that up: Liverpool created 3.98 expected goals (xG) from 19 shots to Arsenal's 0.27 from 5.

Match stats

19 Shots 5

9 Shots on Target 3

6 Corners 1

2 Yellow Cards 0

0 Red Cards 0

3.97 xG 0.27

3.97 Non-penalty xG 0.27

13 Deep Completions 0

Key events

Liverpool Arsenal

Kick-off

Sadio Mané
Assist: Trent Alexander-Arnold

1-0

39’

Half-time1-0

Diogo Jota

2-0

52’

Mohamed Salah
Assist: Sadio Mané

3-0

73’

Takumi Minamino
Assist: Trent Alexander-Arnold

4-0

77’

Full-time4-0

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Liverpool

Fabinho
Sadio Mané

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Liverpool 3.98 xGArsenal 0.27 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Arsenal attacking Liverpool attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alisson	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Trent Alexander-Arnold	DEF	90		2	3	0.17	1.35	4
Joel Matip	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Virgil van Dijk	DEF	90			2	0.12	0.00	0
Konstantinos Tsimikas	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.24	2
Fabinho	MID	90			0	0.00	0.10	1
Thiago Alcántara	MID	85			2	0.16	0.12	2
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain	MID	77			3	0.16	0.00	0
Mohamed Salah	FWD	90	1		4	1.12	0.50	2
Diogo Jota	FWD	77	1		2	0.87	0.00	0
Sadio Mané	FWD	90	1	1	2	0.47	0.89	2
Takumi Minamino	Sub	13	1		1	0.92	0.00	0
Jordan Henderson	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.00	0
Tyler Morton	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Aaron Ramsdale	GK	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Takehiro Tomiyasu	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.08	1
Gabriel	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Ben White	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Nuno Tavares	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.01	1
Bukayo Saka	MID	90	2	0.16	0.00	0
Thomas Partey	MID	85	1	0.01	0.00	0
Albert Sambi Lokonga	MID	54	1	0.02	0.00	0
Emile Smith-Rowe	MID	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Alexandre Lacazette	MID	68	0	0.00	0.10	2
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	FWD	90	1	0.08	0.08	1
Ainsley Maitland-Niles	Sub	36	0	0.00	0.00	0
Martin Odegaard	Sub	22	0	0.00	0.00	0
Mohamed Elneny	Sub	5	0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Liverpool win 63% Avg odds 1.52

Draw 21% Avg odds 4.70

Arsenal win 16% Avg odds 5.93

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Liverpool D W W D L

Arsenal D D W W W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Arsenal 0-3 Liverpool, 03 Apr 21 Next meeting: Arsenal 0-2 Liverpool, 16 Mar 22 All Liverpool vs Arsenal meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.