Carragher hails Arsenal's Invincibles as 'the best team I EVER played against'

Jamie Carragher has labelled Arsenal's Invincibles as the team that he feared the most as a player.

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.

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's Chelsea. However, he believes the Arsenal team from 2002 to 2004 were a cut above and caused him nightmares.

Speaking to a member of that Arsenal side, Freddie Ljungberg, on Monday Night Football, Carragher admitted: 'This team is the best team I ever played against, and the one team where I would say going into games affected me psychologically.

'I felt uncomfortable, I didn’t feel good enough, I didn’t 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’d give them a good game. We’ll take them as far as they can.

'This, Freddie, and your team is what it did to me psychologically.'

Carragher finished his career at Anfield as a centre back, but played at right back during his early days at Liverpool.

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.

He explained it took him years to figure out how to combat Wenger's side due to how quickly they attacked down his side.

'I actually think playing this Arsenal team as a right back, I’m not sure there was any more difficult positions to play in the world, certainly at that time,'