Kenny Dalglish believes the 2-0 victory over Arsenal proves how much better his squad is this season.

The boss introduced Raul Meireles and Luis Suarez with 20 minutes remaining and both played a crucial part in our first win on Arsenal soil since February 2000.

Suarez was applying the pressure which led to Aaron Ramsey's own goal before Meireles set the Uruguayan up for our second.

Dalglish was delighted, telling reporters: "It's a hell of a good pair of substitutes to bring on.

"We were really pleased with Andy Carroll's work, and Dirk Kuyt's, but when you've got two players of that quality on the bench, it would be wrong not to at least have a go with them.

"I think we deserved a goal. That's why I say the squad is better than last year. This is a great example of how strong the squad is."

Explaining his decision to include Kuyt at the expense of Suarez, Dalglish added: "Last week (v Sunderland) maybe I was being a wee bit romantic with Luis. It was unfair on him, he was coming back and was on such a high and looked sharp in training. I thought I'd give him a game.

"Maybe last week it was the wrong decision from me. He still scored the goal, still played well but he just never had the energy he normally has. Maybe we just brought him back a wee bit too soon.

"We've got to manage Luis's circumstances the same as we have everybody else's. There were another four or five lads there who we had for the first time. Raul Meireles has had a difficult pre-season with injuries so we've got to look after him as well as Luis."

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Both sides enjoyed a string of chances during an entertaining game at the Emirates in which Emmanuel Frimpong was dismissed for a reckless challenge on Lucas Leiva.

"It was a fantastic advert for the Premier League," said Dalglish. "The quality of football from both sides was well worthy of a mention.

"Overall in the game we probably just deserved to win. We know they had problems before the game and maybe they didn't have the strongest team they would like to have had on the pitch, but we can only play against the people who are on the pitch. We knew whoever they had on would be quality.

"I thought we played particularly well, we just shaded it and probably deserved the win."

Meanwhile, Dalglish had words of comfort for counterpart Arsene Wenger, whose side have won just two of their last 13 Barclays Premier League games.

"Sometimes you go through stages in the season when it goes better than at other times," he said. "Arsenal are a fantastic football club and Arsene Wenger has done an unbelievable job here.

"I suppose they've had better times than they've had recently but it's not for us to pass any judgement on that."

On whether he would conduct any more business before the end of the transfer window, Dalglish said: "I honestly don't know. If I said yes I could be telling a porky.

"I think it's inevitable that movement goes on in football. If someone taps on your door for whatever reason... But if everybody stays here I don't have any problems."

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