Mikel Arteta breaks down how Arsenal can beat Liverpool

Mikel Arteta says Arsenal simply have to play better than Liverpool if they're to end their 12-year winless streak at Anfield.

The Gunners head into the game top of the Premier League table, a point ahead of Liverpool, and will hold their position at the summit should they earn all three points on Merseyside.

But recent history in not on the side of Arteta and Arsenal, who have found it increasingly difficult to pick up positive results at Anfield. Last season saw Liverpool fight back from 2-0 down to earn a 2-2 draw - Roberto Firmino's 87th minute equaliser one of many daggers that eventually downed Arsenal's Premier League title challenge.

Probed in his latest press conference about how Arsenal can earn a first win at Liverpool since 2011, Arteta stated: "You have to play better than them. You will silence the crowd if you are dominant and better than them, just like in any other ground. There is no difference.

"We have done it at Old Trafford, we have done it at Stamford Bridge and many other places where we haven't done it for years," he added. "This is the next challenge. Go there and win. If you want to be at the top you have to go to those places and be dominant. That's what we're going to try to do."

Arteta was appreciative that Arsenal are likely to encounter periods of the game where they are on the back foot and was clear that his team's response to 'suffering' will be key to getting the result they want.

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"We are going to have to suffer. In every game you have to suffer and how you go through these moments together. How you overcome those moments is a big thing. Last year we went through those moments in the second half and we had some difficulties to get over them.

"They extended for a period that was too long and you have to be able to turn those moments around and come back to the state of the game that you want."

Arsenal's boss also spoke on what his side had learned from the experience of surrending a two-goal lead in April, admitting: "There are certain things that we didn't manage very well, the way we allowed them to run especially, that we need to correct and be much better at because when they have that momentum and space they are a really dangerous team.

"But we had some the big, big situations in after those moments when we could have killed the game and we didn't – when you have the opportunity to do that, you have to do it."

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