Welcome to the game football podcast from the Times. Liverpool find a way to win again and Arsenal's anfield misery continues.

Dominic Sabozli stunning free kick eventually separated the sides as Liverpool struck late for the third game running to top the Premier League table.

Was this an opportunity missed for Arsenal? Will Mikhail Arteta ever throw off his team's straitjacket?

And with Alexander Isak on the verge of completing a British record, 125 million move from

Newcastle United to Anfield, toppling the champions just became a hell of a lot harder.

We'll be debating all of that and discussing big wins for Bournemouth, Brighton,

West Ham and Crystal Palace, more controversial officiating and more of the biggest deals on

transfer deadline day. I'm Gregor Robertson and joining me on today's show we have the Times

senior sports writer Alison Rudd, the Times columnist and feature writer James

Gerbrandt and the Times tactics expert Hamza Khalik Lunat. To Anfield, first of all, we're

as it happens, both James Gearbrandt and Hamza Khalik Lunat were. First of all, the free kick.

Let's start with the free kick. What was that like to watch in the flesh, James? So I actually turned to Hamza afterwards and I was like, oh, think Raya was a bit slow there. I think it could maybe have got that one. And then we saw the replay and it was like, oh no, right. That did just clip the inside of the post. That was pretty much unsavable. It was a brilliant freak here, wasn't it? Did you feel it was going to happen? Do you know what? I honestly did. I honestly. And I believe you because I did too. But only from the kind of, mostly from the sort of journalist's Sods Law point of view of, I'd just written quite a nice intro for a nil now. I was like, yeah, he's definitely...

Surely you mean...

His sobs, Lord.

He's... Well, yes, very good. Yeah, so I was like, yeah, he's definitely gonna... I was a bit slow there, sorry. Hamza, what did you make of it? I mean, because it was a... You know, we'll come to this, but it wasn't the most thrilling game. it didn't quite live up to top of the table billing, but that moment

sort of illuminated the whole game.

Yeah. this, but it wasn't the most thrilling game. It didn't quite live up to top of the table billing, but that moment sort of illuminated the whole game.

Yeah, and what I found really interesting about the goal was the actual moment that led up to

it, right? So Van Dyke gets a ball in midfield, sees Curtis Jones ahead of him, and he plays

this really accurate line-splitting pass. It's risky all the way through into Curtis Jones. Curtis Jones ahead of him and he plays this really accurate line-splitting pass.

It's risky all the way through into Curtis Jones.

Curtis Jones receives it, turns, runs forward through the middle of the pitch and then draws a foul.

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