Arsenal v Everton (23/09 16:00 BST, Sky Sports)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

And hopefully Everton play the role of dutiful bunnies as they often have for us.

[Letters]

They usually roll over and let us tickle their bellies.
Come on, Arsenal :scarf:

[Marc Overmars]

Got a feeling this is going to be another slog.

2-1.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

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Torreira. :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Finally :popcorn:

[Power n Glory]

About time.

[Mac76]

Let's hope he has a really good game, creates a couple of goals and makes himself undroppable

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Everton: Pickford; Kenny, Zouma, Keane, Digne; Gueye, Davies; Walcott, Sigurdsson, Richarlison; Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Stekelenburg, Holgate, Baines, Bernard, Schneiderlin, Lookman, Tosun.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Souness: "I liked those facials".

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Souness doesn't have a clue about Torreira. :haha:

Embarrassing.

[Mac76]

Theo starts - i'm so scared... :lol:

[Globalgunner]

Still would have had Mikhi for Ramsey. who is going to help Bellerin out wide?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mkhitaryan is injured.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Socrates sorting Theo out.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech able to get it away from Calvert-Lewin.

Where was the defence?

[Marc Overmars]

Completely got away with that.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How was that a handball? :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh Xhaka.

[Marc Overmars]

Xhaka caught turning like a tank again.

[Globalgunner]

Xhaka facing his own goal is pure theatre. Never give him the ball

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pickford saves from Monreal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Torreira booked.

Roughing them up. :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

2 footer :bow:

[Globalgunner]

Jon Moss is a slimeball

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech saves from Richarlison.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Digne booked, run at him!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Richarlison combs it, well wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Socrates booked.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech saves from Digne.

[Power n Glory]

Sokratis telling Mustafi off.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mesut turned around for the very difficult pass, needed to hammer it really.

[Globalgunner]

Mustafi is the worst German defender since the last awful German defender Mertesacker

[selassie]

Jesus, we are playing like the away team against Everton!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

RIP Mustafi. :rose:

[Mac76]

Mustafi and xhaka competing to see who can give away a goal first

[Gooner23]

Xhaka is so slow to turn when he receives the ball, no wonder he gets caught on it so often.

[Power n Glory]

Emery has to do something about Ramsey and Ozil.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech denies Theo.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Theo's eyelid has swollen up. :sick:

Socrates off injured, Holding on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hit it Laca!

[Gooner23]

Are we worse defensively than we were under Wenger in terms of how open we are? Certainly no better.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Aubameyang hits the bar!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech saves from Richarlison again.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three added minutes.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Torreira taking them out one by one. :bow:

[Power n Glory]

Fuck off Ozil

[Globalgunner]

Fuck off Ozil

Shit. He calls for the ball and when it comes is clueless

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-0 HT.

We were utter shit.

[Özim]

Emery :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Shite.

[Globalgunner]

0-0 HT. I m more impressed with Everton

[selassie]

Are we worse defensively than we were under Wenger in terms of how open we are? Certainly no better.

Pretty much the same. We look a real mess when midfield and the attack isn’t working, today being a prime example.

If we don’t improve second half then I think we will lose this game.

[Gooner23]

Still waiting for a half decent performance in the league, not impressed.

Glad Moss didn't fall for the cheating to try and get Torreira sent off.

[KSE Comedy Club]

I’m still struggling to see where are are any different from last season ???

Where is the improvement ????

What exactly is Emery doing ??????

:shrug::shrug::shrug:

[Globalgunner]

Either Ramsey or Ozil has to go off replaced by either Guendozi or Iwobi

[Özim]

This defence isn't going to improve, the personnel isn't good enough, sure you can implement tactics and drill players, but if they aren't good enough in the 1st place you've got no chance.

Xhaka is a waste of space but he gets to play every game, same with Mustafi, Ramsey and Ozil can't play in the same team either (Ramsey should be dropped as he'll be off next summer anyway) and we've got no genuine wide players on top of that.

On top of that the bench looks weak.

The club was left in a mess by the former manager, but sadly we didn't do enough last summer to change that.

[hobson's choice]

Why is this team so in the first halves. Every game we've been putrid. Been lucky we've played awful teams these last 4 games.

[hobson's choice]

This defence isn't going to improve, the personnel isn't good enough, sure you can implement tactics and drill players, but if they aren't good enough in the 1st place you've got no chance.

Xhaka is a waste of space but he gets to play every game, same with Mustafi, Ramsey and Ozil can't play in the same team either (Ramsey should be dropped as he'll be off next summer anyway) and we've got no genuine wide players on top of that.

On top of that the bench looks weak.

The club was left in a mess by the former manager, but sadly we didn't do enough last summer to change that.

Nah, we've seen less heralded managers improve defenses in matters of week with worse players then these.

This pressing helter skelter style that he wants to player exposes are defenders too much

[Mac76]

Ransay, mustafi and xhaka all awful, ramsay pretty poor, ozil anonymous and laca not getting into the right areas, still not sure Auba's in the right position either

Shame about Sokratis, hope it's nothing too serious

At least Cech's on form...

[Özim]

Nah, we've seen less heralded managers improve defenses in matters of week with worse players then these.

This pressing helter skelter style that he wants to player exposes are defenders too much

Then we need better defenders, which we should have anyway, these guys aren't top quality and aren't good enough if you want to be challenge the top teams.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey on the half volley, Pickford saves.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Going well. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

We’re not very good at all. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Handball?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

LACAZETTE!!! COME ON!!!

[Marc Overmars]

Laca!!!!!

What a finish

[Özim]

Lacazette!

[Letters]

Laca! What a finish!

[Letters]

Laca!!!!!

What a finish

<_<

[Özim]

Lacazette is everything Walcott never was, a guy who can finish and can do so out of nothing, so glad we finally got rid of Walcott and brought this guy in, quality finisher!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

AUBAMEYANG!!!

Ramsey rubberlegs. :haha:

[Marc Overmars]

Auba!!!!!

Thought Ramsey rubberlegs fucked it up for us

[Özim]

2-0 Aubameyang,

Ozil :bow:

[Özim]

Auba was offside, shoudn't have counted.

[Marc Overmars]

Now please keep a clean sheet. If it’s not too much to ask.

[Özim]

Lucky Arsenal today, Everton played us off the park in the 1st half, but then when you have rubbish forwards like Walcott you've got to expect you'll need 50 chances to win a game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey at it again. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Two more and we're above the Spuds. :whistle:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Aubameyang off, Iwobi on.

[Özim]

Iwobi for Aubameyang, odd decision.

[Master Splinter]

Wasn't Auba's debut goal against Everton offside last season too?

Neverton :haha:.

[Letters]

Two more and we're above the Spuds. :whistle:

Depends who scores the other two goals
#adesmond

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech fumbles a save.

[Letters]

Good save by Cech

[Özim]

Keane should have scored but gives Cech chance to save, decent save but should have never got the chance to save it.

[Letters]

Cech fumbles a save.

Harsh!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Iwobi for Aubameyang, odd decision.

He likes a goal against Neverton, well in so much as he often scores.

[Master Splinter]

Ramsey and Ozil have been ever so slightly better in the second half, but they both appear to have lost all basic technique. It's dreadful to watch and they both seem to have immunity.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Theo and Calvert-Lewin off, Tosun and Arsenal legend, Bernard on.

Theo's point to prove has to wait again. His eye though. :sick:

[Özim]

Walcott going off, ineffective as ever, one of the most overhyped players in football ever! :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey and Ozil have been ever so slightly better in the second half, but they both seem to have lost all basic technique. It's dreadful to watch and they both seem to have immunity.

You don't change a winning team. ©

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Musatafi takes one in the cock.

[Master Splinter]

Ozil is hilariously inept at the moment.

It's excruciating.

[Mac76]

Damn, that's the second time mustafi's gone down but not been injured...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey and his rubberlegs on, Welbz and his balance on to make it safe. :bow:

[Özim]

Ramsey off Welbeck on.

[Letters]

Lucky Arsenal today, Everton played us off the park in the 1st half, but then when you have rubbish forwards like Walcott you've got to expect you'll need 50 chances to win a game.

Don’t know about “played us off the park” but they certainly were the better side.
S’Funny how Arsenal are “lucky” in games when the other team miss chances against us but never “unlucky“ in games where we miss chances.
Why do you hate Arsenal so much, resent every success and all but punch the air at every failure?
Wenger’s gone so you don’t have that excuse.

[Letters]

Wonder when we will concede the mandatory goal :popcorn:

[GP]

Wonder when we will concede the mandatory goal :popcorn:

Shut the fuck up.

[Master Splinter]

Moss has given every free-kick they've asked for.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka clears it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech will kill anyone for this clean sheet.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal 2-0 Neverton, FT!

Four wins in a row. :bow:

Didn't do that last season.

Unstoppable. :bow:

[Master Splinter]

Every break has been a fuck-up. Even when Auba actually scored an offside goal.

[Özim]

Don’t know about “played us off the park” but they certainly were the better side.
S’Funny how Arsenal are “lucky” in games when the other team miss chances against us but never “unlucky“ in games where we miss chances.
Why do you hate Arsenal so much, resent every success and all but punch the air at every failure?
Wenger’s gone so you don’t have that excuse.

We were awful in the 1st half and Everton should have been ahead, the fact we weren't is certainly lucky, Calvin Lewin should have scored when 1 on 1 for a start, it's embarassing for him (and to be honest any professional footballer who misses in that situation) to miss that kind of chance.

It is lucky because actually we're not a very good team right now, Wenger left us in a terrible state with a largely awful group of players, our forward line is decent but the rest is average at best, the lucky part is that Everton have got some absolutely terrible forwards like Walcott.

We are unlucky when we miss chances, trouble has been over the years that we never changed anything and learnt our lesson, so it was less down to bad luck as poor management.

I don't hate Arsenal, but as I said I felt we didn't do anywhere near enough in the summer, consequently what we're seeing now is a reflection of that, players like Xhaka, Mustafi stinking out the place and players out of contract getting regular starts.

Emery is doing OK, I do think he's a little slow at learning from his mistakes (but there as some improvements), performances this season have been indifferent, fortunately Lacazette has been on fire in front of goal winning us games when we've not played well, we lost our first two games as expected and we've won our games since then, but actually we haven't really performed very well overall and have been fortunate our opponents have been very poor in front of goal in a number of cases, had they not we'd probably have dropped a few more points.

On a different note Cech had a good game today, made some important saves, defence was still shoddy however and Xhaka needs to be dropped and never played again.

[dostoy]

Nice 3 points against a half decent team.