Arsenal and Liverpool put on a game tonight that would surely have resulted in Chris Kamara “unbelievabling” himself into hospital, had he been covering it.

Benayoun and Torres both bagged a brace each but it will be an astonishing four goal return from Arsenal’s Arshavin that will get all the attention from fantasy managers…

Fair play to anyone who had kept faith with Arshavin. The Russian had two goals in his 7 Premier League starts going into this one and, parked out wide in a 4-5-1, his goal output looked likely to struggle with Van Persie and Adebayor back in the picture. Perhaps the key was that both of those players were missing tonight and, although Arshavin was again started out wide, he was given more licence to cut inside in the second-half, as Fabregas drifted deeper. The other major contributing factor to his goal haul was some painfully bad defending from Liverpool – which nobody could have really seen coming.

It will be interesting to see just how much attention Arshavin will get now. He showed a deficit of 12,000 managers going into the gameweek but, with starts almost assured in the Premier League, he will surely pick up thousands of in the remaining five days of this gameweek.

Unbelievably as Kamara would say, I still have concerns about Arshavin’s role if Wenger ever has the opportunity to start with two of Adebayor, Van Persie or Eduardo. With injuries and Champions League commitments however, that might never be the case. So with Arsenal seemingly having to attack to have any chance of winning games right now, the Arshavin bandwagon will roar away, particularly with Boro and Portsmouth coming next. Bear in mind however, that United and Chelsea also lie in wait in the final three games.

Elsewhere, Torres and Benayoun were outstanding on the night – but were undone by Liverpool’s inability to keep Arsenal at bay on the rare occasions they got out of their own half. Form went out of the window here – Liverpool went into this game with three consecutive clean sheets.

Arbeloa and Aurellio were at fault in the main, although it may well be Agger who pays the price. Recalled to the back four tonight, he will surely struggle to get the nod ahead of Skrtel after tonight. I also expect Insua to get the nod at Hull at the weekend as Rafa hands a rest to Aurellio.

An extraordinary evening. Now I need a hot sweet cup of tea.