Match Reaction Arsenal 2-0 Everton

[Niall_Quinn]

He is the eternal optimist......with a sprinkling of myopia.

Barkley was poor and Lukaku was well dealt with and I'm glad Giroud didn't drag his incredible performance from the CL into the sphere of the league.

Giroud did have a touch of the Monacos about him today. Two good opportunities, one of them a sitter. Both missed. But at least he stuck it in the net once.

[Xhaka Can’t]

He said tackle twice which I think is revealing.

Theres no need to get in a flap over it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Theres no need to get in a flap over it.

I think I'll withdraw before this gets messy.

[Marc Overmars]

Sanchez was pretty poor by his standards.

Been off the boil for a while now. Work rate is still there but it's entering headless chicken territory at the moment.

[AFC Leveller]

Difference between Gabriel and Merts is already telling. the latter is slow, extremly uncomfortable on the ball and ducks headers (and shots, see MOnaco's first goal where he turned his back instead of facing it) where as the former looks athletic, quick, aggressive and a proper defender.

[rodders]

My view is that the better team lost. A very poor performance from Arsenal.

[Letters]

It wasn't a great performance but for all Everton's huffing and puffing they hardly made any decent chances. Overall we deserved the 3 points, IMO.

[AFC Leveller]

It wasn't a great performance but for all Everton's huffing and puffing they hardly made any decent chances. Overall we deserved the 3 points, IMO.

Agreed. We had more shots, corners and obviously goals so their posession was no use in the end.

[Marc Overmars]

I remember when we used to consider having more possession as an indicator of our dominance in games, regardless of the result.

[Niall_Quinn]

I remember when we used to consider having more possession as an indicator of our dominance in games, regardless of the result.

That's a long time ago, when we were regularly playing decent football and really did give the opposition a runaround. The result usually hinged on us being clinical in front of goal. Sometimes we were, other times not so much. Now we play football on par with the rest of the dross in this league. The good stuff happens maybe 2-3 times a game. We used to have good performances now we have good moments.