Match Reaction Arsenal 2-0 Everton

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Martinez reckons Everton deserved to win.

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There's always one.

Enjoyed that match for the most part, nice work from the lads & no horrific decisions from the 'tard in black.
I'm very optimistic we can get 2nd now, nice run in - well it has been worse.

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Originally Posted by Gooner23

Martinez reckons Everton deserved to win. I wasn't that impressed with them at all.

Comfortable win and decent enough performance. It's maddening how careless we are on the ball at times. Bif was decent though. The midfield worked hard. Back 4 and keeper were excellent.

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they did ok, they benefitted largely from winning the posession high up the pitch with ponderous passes from us, and they managed to cross the ball in a lot but they didn't actually create much especially in the second half.

Gabriel looked all over the place at first, but settled into the game and made some nice, committed challenges

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Originally Posted by Gooner23

Martinez reckons Everton deserved to win. I wasn't that impressed with them at all.

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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.

4 points off the 2nd place trophy :o

I found it a bit of a frustrating performance, we didn't keep the ball well and moved the ball forward far too slowly. There were flashes of quality though, I thought we mostly defended well. Ospina did well to improvise with the flap and tackle after the bad backpass although did make a mess of one later on when he conceded a corner from a shot he should have held. Gabriel made an outstanding tackle in the first half. Overall, a very important 3 points with other results.

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Originally Posted by Letters

4 points off the 2nd place trophy :o

I found it a bit of a frustrating performance, we didn't keep the ball well and moved the ball forward far too slowly. There were flashes of quality though, I thought we mostly defended well. Ospina did well to improvise with the flap and tackle after the bad backpass although did make a mess of one later on when he conceded a corner from a shot he should have held. Gabriel made an outstanding tackle in the first half. Overall, a very important 3 points with other results.

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You said flap and tackle :haha:

Sanchez was pretty poor by his standards.

Thank fuck for that.

Massive win today, really important. Top 4 is going to be a real battle, I don't like the fact we still have to play United Away & Liverpool at Home but if we have to do it the hard way so be it.

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Originally Posted by LDG

You said flap and tackle :haha:

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He said tackle twice which I think is revealing.