{"id":297740,"date":"2023-11-28T01:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=297740"},"modified":"2023-11-28T01:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T01:24:45","slug":"carragher-reveals-how-arsenal-invincibles-psychologically-affected-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/carragher-reveals-how-arsenal-invincibles-psychologically-affected-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Carragher reveals how Arsenal Invincibles psychologically affected him"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jamie Carragher hails Arsenal&#8217;s Invincibles as &#8216;the best team I EVER played against&#8217;, as he reveals Arsene Wenger&#8217;s side made him feel &#8216;smaller, weaker and not good enough&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jamie Carragher feels Arsenal&#8217;s Invincibles were the best team he played<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He has revealed how they psychologically affected him heading into games<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Was Garnacho&#8217;s overhead kick REALLY the greatest ever? Listen to the debate on It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jamie Carragher has labelled Arsenal&#8217;s Invincibles as the team that he feared the most as a player.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners won three league titles under Arsene Wenger in 1998, 2002 and 2004, with their final triumph coming in a season where they went unbeaten.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher was trying to stop their dominance while playing for Liverpool, and the former Reds defender pointed out that he also went up against memorable Manchester United sides and Jose Mourinho&#8217;s Chelsea. However, he believes the Arsenal team from 2002 to 2004 were a cut above and caused him nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a member of that Arsenal side, Freddie Ljungberg, on Monday Night Football, Carragher admitted: &#8216;This team is the best team I ever played against, and the one team where I would say going into games affected me psychologically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I felt uncomfortable, I didn\u2019t feel good enough, I didn\u2019t feel physically strong, it made me feel smaller and weaker. Against United, you knew they were better than us or Chelsea had the edge on us but you still felt we\u2019d give them a good game. We\u2019ll take them as far as they can.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/00\/78302463-12797857-image-a-60_1701131373284.jpg\" height=\"413\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jamie Carragher struggled against Arsenal&#8217;s Invincibles, and admits they were the best team he played against and made him feel like he was &#8216;weaker, smaller and not good enough&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/00\/78302459-12797857-image-a-61_1701131423084.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Carragher believes the task of keeping Arsenal&#8217;s left side quiet during that period was a near impossible task<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This, Freddie, and your team is what it did to me psychologically.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Carragher finished his career at Anfield as a centre back, but played at right back during his early days at Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, he thinks it was one of the toughest roles he could have been given when playing against Arsenal as they had multiple threats down that flank in Robert Pires, Ashley Cole and Thierry Henry.<\/p>\n<p>He explained it took him years to figure out how to combat Wenger&#8217;s side due to how quickly they attacked down his side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I actually think playing this Arsenal team as a right back, I\u2019m not sure there was any more difficult positions to play in the world, certainly at that time,&#8217; Carragher continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I played right back in that Liverpool team in the early 2000s and you\u2019d get Pires coming inside, you\u2019d get Thierry Henry spinning out to this side and you\u2019d get Ashley Cole on the overlap. And the reason I\u2019d say this team was the toughest to play against was because things happened so quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/00\/78302601-12797857-image-a-62_1701131502659.jpg\" height=\"474\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Carragher said he figured out years later that the best way to handle Thierry Henry (left) and Robert Pires (right) was by standing still rather than following them around the pitch<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That\u2019s the most difficult thing as a defender, you\u2019ve got no time to react. I was an organiser, telling people where to go and organising the team. When you\u2019re playing against a team who play at this pace there\u2019s no time to speak. You can\u2019t pass on information, things are happening so quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And I think this area of Pires, Cole, Thierry Henry was devastating. I have nightmares thinking about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I actually think after a few years playing them, the best way of dealing with it was not to go inside with Pires, I\u2019m the right back he\u2019s the left winger or I\u2019m going to stay here with Cole or where\u2019s Thierry Henry going, centre back goes there (out wide) and then I\u2019m inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was actually a case of, don\u2019t move. Actually just stand still. I can\u2019t cope with this, it\u2019s actually \u201clet\u2019s hold our positions\u201d.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12797857\/Jamie-Carragher-hails-Arsenals-Invincibles-best-team-played-against-reveals-Arsene-Wengers-feel-smaller-weaker-not-good-enough.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Carragher hails Arsenal&#8217;s Invincibles as &#8216;the best team I EVER played against&#8217;, as he reveals Arsene Wenger&#8217;s side made him feel &#8216;smaller, weaker and not good enough&#8217; 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