This was one of the major highlights of my time at Liverpool.
It was first versus second.
Our team on the day:
we had Simon Mignolet in goal,
Aly Cissokho [at] left-back,
right-back Jon Flanagan,
who was a fantastic young player
who had then broken in by this stage and
was doing really well.
Two centre-halves: we had Kolo Touré
and Martin Škrtel.
In this sort of controlling position we had Steven Gerrard.
We went with a mixture of a midfield.
I normally was playing Coutinho wide
some games but we sacrificed him to get him
on the ball in the central area.
So, I had Phil from the left side
and Jordan [Henderson] from the right.
That was a midfield that was technical
because Arsenal were a technical team.
I didn't feel I needed so much
a defensive midfield player in
but the three could work together.
My front three, I decided to play
Daniel [Sturridge] through the middle
because of his pace against [Per] Mertesacker.
Luis [Suárez]: not as a real wide player
but for him to stay and occupy [Nacho] Monreal
who at that time was one of their best attacking full-backs.
The idea for Luis was when Monreal attacked,
[he would] stay up the pitch
to see if that would keep him back.
Then from the left side, was Raheem [Sterling].
We had real good balance in the team.
Strong; team was compact.
Our idea going into the game
was to allow Arsenal to build the game
so we could open them up.
So, they would open the pitch up.
[Mikel] Arteta or [Jack] Wilshere dropping in
to get the ball and then we would
just get into our midfield block -
our semi position here to press the game -
and then we would really look to press the game
in this central area or on the side of the field.
For the third goal, we felt that
Ozil is a really special talent and
was a fantastic player
but we felt that when he had the ball,
we had to put real pressure on him.
So every time he had the ball,
we had to double press.
We had Jordan who was great in pressure situations.
So, what happened...
Ozil comes out to the side of the field -
again real good pressure on him.
We win the ball back,
and then what we felt was we could then break out
from inside Arsenal's shape.
So, Arsenal were opened up,
they want to play; they're a very good technical team.
But we then win the ball here,
and then we were able to release Luis with the ball,
up that side and then we then have the pace
of Sturridge and Sterling breaking into the box
ahead of their defenders.
Luis on the day was really unselfish.
He actually never scored in this game
but he done a brilliant job for the team and
Raheem just nipped in in front of Daniel here to get the goal.
What was significant about this type of goal...
because people felt we maybe changed our style in the second season
to the one in the first when we came in.
It was exactly the same style
but what was different was our efficiency
in the second part of the season.
We had a number of games in my first season,
in particular in the second half of the season,
where we were in on [the] counter-attack
but then the whole of the season
we only finished one goal from a counter-attack.
In the second season,
we had nine goals from [the] counter-attack.
So the efficiency changed
and not necessarily the tactic.
Our tactics would be to press and dominate
but in certain times we would press high up the field
and in certain games we would press from this midfield press.
This was a perfect example of
pressing in that zone to release our fast players
and then to then get the end product
which is the goal.