Match reaction vs Everton

[Letters]

So you can’t look at what happened yesterday and see it as depressingly predictable?

I had a bad feeling about yesterday, we have a baffling bad record there, and there’s the infamous new manager bounce. Yesterday’s result was nowhere near good enough but things like this happen in any season. The important thing is we pick ourselves up and win the next one. I back us to.

But football isn’t that predictable, that’s why bookies are rich and punters aren’t. I didn’t think we’d beat Utd (nor did you), and I was kinda surprised we won at Spurs. Overall we are miles ahead of where any of us thought we’d be at this stage. While we are here you predicted a 1-0 win to us yesterday so how are you now declaring the result predictable? I mean, it was predictable that at some point we’d get a bad result, because that happens to every team every season.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I had a bad feeling about yesterday, we have a baffling bad record there, and there’s the infamous new manager bounce. Yesterday’s result was nowhere near good enough but things like this happen in any season. The important thing is we pick ourselves up and win the next one. I back us to.

But football isn’t that predictable, that’s why bookies are rich and punters aren’t. I didn’t think we’d beat Utd (nor did you), and I was kinda surprised we won at Spurs. Overall we are miles ahead of where any of us thought we’d be at this stage. While we are here you predicted a 1-0 win to us yesterday so how are you now declaring the result predictable? I mean, it was predictable that at some point we’d get a bad result, because that happens to every team every season.

Again missing the point, it’s not that the result of this fixture was predictable it was that there was something predictable about if we lose a game this would be how it would come about because we haven’t adequately introduced a plan B to deal with it. I did predict a 1-0 win on the basis that Dyche simply wouldn’t have had the time to set up in a way that would flummox us.

It wasn’t that we played poorly it was that it was so easy for them to put us off our stride.

[Letters]

Again missing the point, it’s not that the result of this fixture was predictable it was that there was something predictable about if we lose a game this would be how it would come about because we haven’t adequately introduced a plan B to deal with it. I did predict a 1-0 win on the basis that Dyche simply wouldn’t have had the time to set up in a way that would flummox us.

It wasn’t that we played poorly it was that it was so easy for them to put us off our stride.

The thing I’m most disappointed about, apart from the result, is the lack of reaction in the second half. I didn’t watch but was following the match thread and it sounded like an awful first half performance. That’s where Arteta has to earn his money, get them going and turn it round second half. The win was still there for the taking. So the failure to do that pisses me off.
But look, it’s gone. All we can do is react well, win the next game and set ourselves up for the City game. By the way this season has gone I think we will, but we could yet collapse which would leave me wondering where we go from here. I feel it’s now or never with the title this year, City aren’t going away, Liverpool will surely not be so poor again next year, Newcastle are on the march and Chelsea are trying to buy success again.

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Even if we have only had four stinkers this season then we are clearly doing very well. To be honest, I think yesterday was our second stinker of the league campaign, our first one at Leeds we got away with it, but we should have lost up their too. United defeat wasn't a stinker, we actually played well but got suckered on the counter. Southampton draw we struggled in periods but should have put the game to bed in the first half.

On the whole, our performances so far have ranged between very good and good, we have tended to dominate most games home and away.

The reason I am not panicking yet is because this team does appear to have a fair bit about them. I am expecting us to turn it around next Saturday at home to Brentford. I mean turning it around by playing very well and picking up 3 points, if we keep churning out performances like yesterday then we can forget about any title.

I might be alone but I don't think yesterday's performance was really that bad; I mean the result was terrible and embarrassing but if one watched the game we've played worse than that quite a few number of times and managed to get results.

I feel we were beaten by the better team and here I mean by the team that wanted it far more and upped their game by a 100%. Hopefully we don't come up against teams that play their season's best against us for the remainder of the season, hopefully.

The only thing that worried me is that lack of a plan B when it comes to scoring in games like this; we should be shooting from range, take meaningful set pieces (our corners were dreadful) and sadly even look for penalties, something Arteta did against Newcastle.

The sad thing was it was like our boys stopped being the intelligent group of lads I have come to respect, they insisted on driving forward with a system that clearly wasn't working.

We need to be able to alter the shape of this team meaningfully and I really hope thats what the team will practice these coming days instead of more intensive tippy tappy passing and wing play.

[selassie]

I might be alone but I don't think yesterday's performance was really that bad; I mean the result was terrible and embarrassing but if one watched the game we've played worse than that quite a few number of times and managed to get results.

I feel we were beaten by the better team and here I mean by the team that wanted it far more and upped their game by a 100%. Hopefully we don't come up against teams that play their season's best against us for the remainder of the season, hopefully.

The only thing that worried me is that lack of a plan B when it comes to scoring in games like this; we should be shooting from range, take meaningful set pieces (our corners were dreadful) and sadly even look for penalties, something Arteta did against Newcastle.

The sad thing was it was like our boys stopped being the intelligent group of lads I have come to respect, they insisted on driving forward with a system that clearly wasn't working.

We need to be able to alter the shape of this team meaningfully and I really hope thats what the team will practice these coming days instead of more intensive tippy tappy passing and wing play.

To be fair I only saw the highlights and did not catch the game live so if you did you have a much better gauge of how we played.

I think the alarming thing with yesterday was for most of the season we have worked out a way to break teams down early on in games, but one thing that worries me a bit is if we don't go ahead early on we do seem to run out of ideas.

We have had a great season so far and just need to maintain our standard of performance, if we do then it could end up being an amazing season.

[Marc Overmars]

As you were then.

A wake up call for sure but on we go.

[Letters]

It’s ON!

[Xhaka Can’t]

No ground lost - just a missed opportunity.

Even a point would’ve done.

Let’s hope we learn from this free lesson.

[Letters]

If the games were reversed then people would be saying (with some justification) that we’d bottled a chance to close the lead. We dodged a bullet this weekend, have to win the next one.

[selassie]

We need to get back into winning ways next Saturday, COYG!!!