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Liverpool’s champions tour continues as Arne Slot’s side prepare to receive a guard of honour from closest title challengers Arsenal ahead of their clash at Anfield.

The Reds were crowned Premier League victors two weeks ago after thrashing Tottenham 5-1, with the result condemning the Gunners to a third successive failed title charge. Mikel Arteta’s side will now need to pick themselves up from Wednesday night’s heartbreak in the Champions League semi-finals against Paris Saint-Germain, with the new objective to secure second place and avoid total ignominy after a season that promised much but delivered little.

Liverpool, too, will want a response at Anfield after losing to Chelsea last weekend in their first game as the newly-crowned champions. While there is little to gain for Slot and his squad with such a dominant title success, a petering out would not be desired. Once thought a possible title decider, the stakes may be lower today but a captivating affair could yet await.

Liverpool 0-0 Arsenal

3 mins: BIG CHANCE for Arsenal! The Gunners beat Liverpool’s offside trap and Saka is through on goal, but he puts it wide from five yards in front of the Kop!

Jamie Braidwood11 May 2025 16:34

Liverpool 0-0 Arsenal

2 mins: Conor Bradley thundered into a challenge on Bukayo Saka in the opening minute and then catches Merino as they contested a high ball, but it wasn’t intentional.

Jamie Braidwood11 May 2025 16:33

KICK-OFF! Liverpool 0-0 Arsenal

Underway at Anfield!

Jamie Braidwood11 May 2025 16:31

Here comes the guard of honour

Pantomime boos as Arsenal came onto the Anfield pitch first.

“Championees, championees” is the cry as Virgil van Dijk leads out Liverpool.

The Arsenal players applaud as they form the guard of honour, which must hurt after falling just short in the last two seasons.

Jamie Braidwood11 May 2025 16:27

Mikel Arteta insists Arsenal are 'very close' to achieving true success

It’s no doubt been a difficult week for Mikel Arteta, the positive direction of his project still obvious but another season without a major trophy coming and going. He insisted on Friday that the breakthrough will come for Arsenal.

"I have so much to achieve and that is what drives me every day,” Arteta said. “The people and the staff and the players drive me every single day.

"If there is somebody that has raised the standard and the expectation the highest, it has been me. Because I have been demanding and expecting much more, and after that much more, and after that much more.

"For me it is the only way to do it, for everybody to have really high standards and demands.

"We are very, very close to achieving it. I understand the disappointment and the criticism. It is all part of it.

"At the end there is one winner and the rest of them aren't going to win, so they need to reinvent themselves and do better and that is part of the cycle."

Mikel Arteta believes Arsenal are close to success (REUTERS)