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Whilst we're at it, heres the Liverpool/Arsenal preview from soccernet:

Rafael Benitez is calling on referees and football authorities to protect the top players by taking a tougher stance on dangerous tackles.

The Liverpool boss - whose team face Arsenal in the Barclays Premiership on Tuesday - was appalled by the tackles he witnessed over the weekend.

He is still fuming over the fact that goalkeeper Jose Reina is completing a three-match ban thanks to a `dive' by Chelsea forward Arjen Robben, while potentially career-threatening tackles have gone relatively unpunished.

Benitez appeared to be referring to the two-footed tackles by Bolton's Abdoulaye Faye on Jose Antonio Reyes and a similar lunge by Arsenal's Mathieu Flamini on Bolton's Ricardo Gardner in the fractious match at Highbury on Saturday.

Neither was punished by a red card.

``I was surprised,'' said Benitez. ``I cannot understand why Reina cannot play in three games for a red card which was awarded because a player decided to dive.

``Then you see the tackles that have occurred over the last weekend. I think we need to protect the players; maybe we need to show more yellow cards.

``Sometimes you try to explain, but maybe more yellow cards would be the right idea.

``Then you can protect players. There is a World Cup soon, and every player wants to be fit. They don't want to be injured.

``If referees show more yellow cards then players will be alert, and things will be different. It means you can see more good football and not the sort of tackles we have seen lately.

``I try to tell my players to play fair. I do not like to see diving. It is right to protect the players from such things and from bad tackles.

``That is more important, because you see a lot of players getting badly injured.''

Benitez will make a late decision on the availability of striker Peter Crouch, whose heel injury kept him out of the victory at Wigan.

He is considering using Robbie Fowler - who has an outstanding scoring record against the Gunners - from the start again.

The Anfield chief is well aware of the significance of the club's next three games; first Arsenal, Manchester United in the FA Cup on Saturday and then away to Benfica in the Champions League next Tuesday.

``We have three important games in three important competitions now in eight days - and we are ready,'' he promised.

``Arsenal are close to us, and we have to beat them to continue going forward.

``I respect Arsenal and Arsene Wenger. As a manager, he has achieved a lot in this country.

``His teams always play well, and that long run of unbeaten games last season says it all about them.

``I enjoy seeing Arsenal play the game, but I will enjoy it more after we have beaten them.''

Gilberto insists Arsenal can save their crumbling season by following Liverpool's road map to European glory.

The Gunners campaign will be defined by two games in the next eight days; Tuesday's crucial Barclays Premiership clash at Anfield and next week's trip to Real Madrid.

The Champions League remains Arsene Wenger's only hope of silverware this season and he is anxious to boost confidence ahead of the trip to the Bernabeu Stadium by winning at Liverpool.

Beating the European Champions would inject new belief into the Highbury ranks that they could topple Real's Galacticos and go all the way in the Champions League.

Gilberto said: ``We can still make it a great season. People don't talk too much about Arsenal and this is good because you can do your job in peace.

``On the pitch you can do your best and try to win the game. Anything can happen in football.

``Liverpool last year didn't do very well in the championship but in Champions League they won. It's a similar kind of situation.

``You can see all the time in football that if you are prepared you can do something special.

``Now it can change for us. We are fighting for a better position in the championship and we have another Champions League game in front of us and we can make everything different.''

Wenger's men can move within a point of fourth-placed Tottenham if they win at Anfield.

But the Gunners have taken only 12 points from 12 games on their travels this season, while Liverpool have only lost once at home, to champions Chelsea.

Meanwhile, Wenger's injury problems show little sign of easing.

Jose Reyes is ruled out of the Liverpool game after an injury suffered in the controversial tackle from Bolton's Abdoulaye Faye on Saturday.

Reyes says his leg is not broken as first feared but is waiting for the results of MRI scans to find out exactly how long he will be out.

Dennis Bergkamp is also out after pulling a calf muscle in training on Sunday and Wenger's squad flew to Merseyside without nine injured players.