Back under way at Anfield.

KJB: We really need a result today with a tough month - including Man City - ahead. This is already a fearsome match and thanks to the unpredictable nature of the game and that trademark Anfield hostility, I'm not sure I can sit through another 45 minutes.

Paul: Xhaka has been brilliant this season but he still lets himself down at times doing stupid things like he has done here to get booked.

Anukram: Arsenal were bossing around till Xhaka’s overreaction. Tempers flying high at Anfield. Seems like we could very well end this game with either/both teams with less than 10 players on the pitch. Superb game by Arsenal but Liverpool are fighting back.

Lammy: Xhaka needs to be hooked before he gets sent off. Get Jorginho on at half time!

Craig Hignett
Former Middlesbrough and Blackburn midfielder on BBC Radio Merseyside

For three quarters of the half Liverpool were floating about. Arsenal looked so good. Then there was a flashpoint and Arsenal's players lost their heads. It is a totally different game now.

"A sensational game of football. One of the best games I've seen this season, by far," says Micah Richards on Sky Sports.

Roy Keane describes Liverpool's defending as "like a pub team". Ouch.

Dion Dublin
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

Outstanding. This is what I wanted to see. I wasn’t expecting it to be this spicy.

Some great football. Arsenal were brilliant for half an hour. Liverpool then nicked a goal and they're back in it.

It's all level now. The scoreline isn't, but the attitude of the players and the quality has levelled out.

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer at Anfield

Arsenal were happy to hear that half-time whistle so they can regain some of the composure that was the hallmark of so much of their play in that first half.

Mohamed Salah's goal has completely changed the atmosphere inside Anfield, which was so subdued until Liverpool got back into the game.

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Arsenal were well on top and cruising at 2-0.

Then Trent Alexander-Arnold reacted to a bit of bite from Granit Xhaka and that seems to have given Liverpool a kick up the backside.

We've got a game on our hands now.

Dion Dublin
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

Liverpool are on the ascendency at the moment and they are loving the contact and the atmosphere.

Arsenal wanted that whistle to go and Andy Robertson throws his arms up in frustration as Liverpool didn't.

It's got spicy very quickly and Liverpool's players race over to the referee to complain about some of the earlier tackles.

There's a yellow card shown - perhaps to Jordan Henderson - while Andy Robertson roars at Trent Alexander-Arnold, telling him to get off.

Daniel: We were coasting til Xhaka decided to have a little fisticuffs with TAA. Think he's riled up the crowd

Trent Alexander-Arnold curls it in for Diogo Jota. He volleys it back, Aaron Ramsdale dives to push it off the goalline and Jordan Henderson then fires it over the bar!

Mikel Arteta expected a jungle and it is one now.

Mohamed Salah is bundled over to win a free-kick and there's a huge roar inside the stadium.

Gabriel Jesus goes down after a challenge from Fabinho and wants treatment. Liverpool are trying to hurry him up and the crowd are booing.

Arsenal are having to dig deep now. Mohamed Salah almost dances his way into the box but he's blocked off by Gabriel.

Craig Hignett
Former Middlesbrough and Blackburn midfielder on BBC Radio Merseyside

Liverpool were desperate for that. It might have been a little lucky but it was good play down the left.

That spicy encounter between Granit Xhaka and Trent Alexander-Arnold got the crowd going moments before Mohamed Salah's goal and it sounds like a different place inside Anfield now.

Dion Dublin
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

It was only going to take a little bit of magic from Mohamed Salah.

A little bit of confidence from this Liverpool side.

Brilliant goal. We've got a game on.