Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is paying little attention to Arsenal's defensive crisis and is more concerned his side about a direct approach from Arsene Wenger's men.
The Gunners begin the new season at home to Klopp's men with limited options in the centre of defence due to injuries to Per Mertesacker and Gabriel as well as concerns over Laurent Koscielny's fitness.
However, Klopp does not subscribe to the theory that it is a perfect time to face a team lacking any senior central defenders and has warned his players they must prepare for a repeat of the longer passes which caused them issues in a 3-3 draw at Anfield back in January.
While Wenger's teams have always been associated with a possession-based style, Klopp concedes the 'route one' attacks to striker Olivier Giroud provided plenty of headaches.
"Defensive problems only play a role in a game when the other team is really strong and offensive," the German said.
"If you want to make a mistake then you think about if there are defensive problems. We haven't thought a second about this. We think about our play and our game and what we saw from them in the pre-season, their style of play, how they defend, how they attack.
"We know Arsenal usually are a football-playing team but when they played last time against us (they played) a lot of long balls.
"Always (to) Giroud, second ball (to Mesut) Ozil. That caused us a lot of problems in this game.
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"It was 3-3 in the last second. That's what we think about and not what kind of problems they could have."
