Match Thread Arsenal v Everton KO Sun 23 Sep 2018 4pm

[daza_1973]

I think next week's game could possibly rank as the earliest six pointer we've played.

Mitrovic Hatrick nailed on...

 

[BlueToff]

Exactly.

Because we savour a midfielder in our side who can't complete the simplest of passes. The love in baffles me. Utterly utterly bemused.

He was excellent off the ball. Just seen the stats, they back it up.

He won 10 tackles (6 more than any other player on the pitch, btw), made 3 clearances, 3 interceptions, gained possession 7 times and lost it 9 times.

He was, defensively, the best player on our team in terms of stats.

 

[Mercedes]

Will be going nowhere if the team can’t keep a clean sheet.

17 games no clean sheet

Even BFS with a pint of wine can do better than that!

 

[Shipped]

These were there for the taking today.
If we can't even take a point away from a game like today where we're the better team for most of it you can see why our away record at the top 6 is so shocking.
Still at least we had a go.

 

[harris78]

Will be going nowhere if the team can’t keep a clean sheet.

to be fair mate it was a quality finish for the first goal and the second was as blatant offside as you are likely to see in the PL, you cannot legislate for such inept refereeing

Im alot more optimistic today than i was 7 days ago thats for sure!

 

[carlos NSNO]

thought we should of bin a couple of goals up in the 1st half proven what they have and what we don't and that's a player who can put the ball in the net pity really cos I thought we played some great football for most of the game IMO

 

[ADT]

 

[riddick]

He was excellent off the ball. Just seen the stats, they back it up.

He won 10 tackles (6 more than any other player on the pitch, btw), made 3 clearances, 3 interceptions, gained possession 7 times and lost it 9 times.

He was, defensively, the best player on our team in terms of stats.

Thought Gana was brilliant today. Did the whole "get the ball, give it to someone else" that he did when he was first here.

 

[riddick]

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Selling Lukaku was a huge mistake. The way we have spent the majority of the money will haunt us for a long time.

Pretty sure mate that we were lucky to have Lukaku as long as we did in the end. He wanted out before Koeman's first season.

 

[paultheblue]

We were better today but it's going to take time. There is nothing to be gained by turning on the players and the manager we need to stay behind them not crush them with unrealistic expectations.

 

[Somerset Blue]

Get back in the fields, yer carrot cruncher.

Haha, I’m just a tad worried that we defend like we have for the last 2 seasons and are no nearer sorting out the midfield or having a striker worth the shirt! But I’ll bow to your city slicker ways yer gert tart!

 

[Joey66]

Offside goal their dirty defender should have got two yellows - they bend a corker in the far top corner - we were the better side , but not clinical enough, and their keeper was MOTM -better but still a defeat!

 

[Albertini78]

Neutral view

You were very unfortunate today. Got to take those chances though was always going to bite you on the ar$e

Great finish by the French lad and diabolical by the linesman for the 2nd

 

[KaiserEFC]

Most people count performance to be the general creation and concession of chances to score. Not the observed outcome of those chances.

Oh sound, glad that gets us the 3 points then