Football fans all over the World were licking their lips at the prospect of Liverpool's trip to The Emriates Stadium on THE Monday Night Football (they really do insist you say the 'The' over at Sky), and it's sometimes easy to forget that professional footballers are fans too.
Twitter is great for live stats, reactions and of course gifs, but if you look carefully you'll see pros watching their peers and giving their own, normally very safe, opinion on things.
We've decided to pick the best tweets that tell the story of tonight's game, and here they are:
Stoke boys loving the pre-match analysis:
MNF It'll be hard to find two people on TV that speak as much sense as @Carra23 and @GNev2
— Jonathan walters (@JonWalters19) August 24, 2015
Brilliant @SkySportsMNF with @Carra23 @GNev2 @ThierryHenry @skysports_ed
— Charlie Adam (@Charlie26Adam) August 24, 2015
Kick Off: On loan Arsenal players can afford to be biased.
big game #COYG
— Chuba Akpom (@cakpom) August 24, 2015
Nobody mentioned Aaron Ramsey's offside goal, which clearly should have stood.
Smart, don't get yourself in trouble with the FA. Us on the other hand?
Never offside, if the Premier League were looking to have 1 bad offside call every game, then it's been a great start to the season. #ARSLIV
— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) August 24, 2015
And Alan Shearer too to be fair:
Apart from when three of them played @aaronramsey on. Not offside! #arsenal #lfc https://t.co/BzJoMsM1cv
— Alan Shearer (@alanshearer) August 24, 2015
40 mins in, Petr Cech makes a world class save to deny Benteke.
And the keepers union was out in force:
Peter Cech..? #worldy
— Ben Foster (@BenFoster) August 24, 2015
Amazing save from @PetrCech
— Shay Given (@No1shaygiven) August 24, 2015
Cech on fire ?
— Mark Bunn (@MBGKA) August 24, 2015
cech!
— Robert Elliot (@the_dilsh) August 24, 2015
@PetrCech ???
— David De Gea (@D_DeGea) August 24, 2015
Coutinho goes close right before half time:
Coutinho ?
— Rolando Aarons (@R_Aarons16) August 24, 2015
Coutinho ? ⚽️⚽️⚽️
— Charles N'Zogbia (@CharlesNzo) August 24, 2015
Coutinho is cold???
— Redderz (@NathanRedmond22) August 24, 2015
We can't tell if that last one is good or bad..
Half time: Liverpool clearly on top.
Good first half from Liverpool could have been couple goals up.
— Charlie Adam (@Charlie26Adam) August 24, 2015
How Liverpool ain't winning this game.... Wow
— Callum Robinson (@CallumRobbo37) August 24, 2015
Arsenal asking questions early on in the second half.
What a silky player @19SCazorla #afc need to get him on the ball more!!
— Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) August 24, 2015
For the first 30 minutes of the second half, nobody said a thing.
Not a single current Premeir League player gave a shit in the second half. Arsenal were dominating, and there were chances a plenty, but nope, not a comment.
Have they all gone to bed? It's only half nine!.
5 minutes left to play, and Graeme Le Saux's got the calculator out.
25% of the outfield players now on the pitch were bought from @SouthamptonFC How much money did they make?
#AFC v #LFC
— Graeme Le Saux (@graemelesaux14) August 24, 2015
We're into injury time, and Peter Crouch is taking pics of his baby girl.
Poor girl has years of this ahead of her pic.twitter.com/6e6xaI4UBU
— Peter Crouch (@petercrouch) August 24, 2015
Gary Lineker sums it up as it looks destined for 0-0.
Never liked goalkeepers, they get in the bloody way, but these two have been tremendous tonight.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) August 24, 2015
0-0 at Full Time, they weren't asleep after all!
They were just bored.
How on earth was that 0 0?! #afc #lfc #badfinishing
— Alan Shearer (@alanshearer) August 24, 2015
Wonder what the record is for goal attempts in a 0-0. Over 30 in this one
— Matt Le Tissier (@mattletiss7) August 24, 2015
A great 0-0 if there is such a thing. How there wasn’t a goal in that game I don’t know. ?
— Anthony Pilkington (@Pilkington_11) August 24, 2015
Danny Sturridge was delighted with the point apparently:
Lovely ???
— Daniel Sturridge (@D_Sturridge) August 24, 2015
