Arsenal has been woeful of late and they needed a reaction from the squad against
Everton in league game.
Not exact matches
Last season Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense
in the entire
league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed by the conceding 22 horrible goals against the teams
in the top five, 20 of those on away
games to those same top teams (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, and
Everton).
Manchester United travel to the Hawthorns hoping they can win their third Premier
League game in a row against West Bromwich Albion, having beaten West Ham and
Everton in recent weeks.
Arsenal have a massive week ahead starting with today's FA Cup match at home to Watford, followed by our trip to Barcelona
in midweek, and then a massive
game away at
Everton in the
League next weekend.
Everton striker Samuel Eto'o has scored his second of the
game in the Premier
League clash with Burnley
in stunning fashion, but it is worrying times for the hosts.
Out of 14 away
games in the
League this season Arsenal have won just 3 of them, against
Everton, Burnley and Crystal Palace, and this has contributed massively to our lowly position
in the table.
But we should not write this
game off just yet as
Everton are still
in poor form
in the Premier
League, only just managing to snatch a point off Leicester at home last weekend.
Everton travel to the Etihad Stadium tonight on Monday evening to play Manchester City
in their second Premier
League games.
So the question we want answered is was yesterday's
Everton - Reading
game the worst of the season
in the Premier
League.
The idea that Arsenal's tactics were rigid and predictable was most obvious
in that season when our Premier
League title challenge collapsed after losing heavily
in high profile
games against Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea and
Everton.
Manchester United have no European competition and have solely the
league to worry about up until January, with the attacking options they have and sufficient time to rest between
games you can bet they will be fighting for a CL spot,
Everton will be challenging, Spurs will be outsiders for a CL spot
in my opinion and I don't expect them to be
in it much but I wouldn't count them out and then there is Arsenal.
We proved at
Everton in the hugely convincing 3 - 0 victory that we have it
in the locker to control a
game without taking a gung - ho approach; every Arsenal fan wants to see attacking, fluid football played at the highest level, but most teams, particularly this season with the increase
in quality across the Premier
League, are more than likely to have something
in response if they exploit tactical weaknesses.
Champions
league playoff tie — Arsenal vs Besiktas: What could be the possible changes
in Arsenal's lineup from
Everton game?
He will be well aware of the
Everton clash
in the Premier
League this weekend, and ideally, you wouldn't want your best players playing 3
games within a week.
We won our opening
game of the
league, drew away
in Turkey (well known for being a hard place to go) and drew with
Everton when last year they beat us.
It will be very interesting to see if we can scare a record - breaking team like Bayern Munich just as easily, but it is far more important that, whatever the result on Tuesday, we go into next weekend's
game against
Everton with the same attitude we have had
in the
League recently, and go and kill those Toffees off too!
Play players that will play for our crest, Chelsea
game proved that and just put out them, I said
in summer arsenal want dries mertens and got nothing but thumps down I've got fantastic source was told arsenal will get him next summer but only stop is we got ta get bk
in champions
league we need go on run next few woks and we need beat
Everton which is our next real tough fix, just look at da ox it's a mistake he went apparently he promised he's girl that he go Liverpool that why he took pay cut well grass is not always greener we need play same as at Chelsea and keep winning and get buzz really going let's beat wba and I'd play jack for da
game we don't need Cdm for wba at home let's get goals lacasette get couple
In - between the two Champions
League Qualifiers Arsenal had a tricky away
game to an
Everton side that had gained many plaudits the season prior for their exciting, attacking football.
The sad part
in that is that it could get worse with 14
games left
in the
league we still have to play Man u, Man city, Spurs, Liverpool &
Everton.
Arsenal make the trip to Goodison Park today to take on
Everton in the Premier
League, and there could not be a better time for such a
game.
Another reason I fancy Arsenal to do the business is that although
Everton looked good against Chelsea,
in their last 8 Premier
League games at home, they have only won once, against Newcastle, and they actually lost 5 of those 8 matches.
This
game tonight between
Everton and Arsenal looks like a no - brainer, with Arsenal unbeaten
in the Premier
League or the Champions
League since the opening
game of the season, while the Toffees have won just one
game in their last 11.
Fresh off becoming the record goalscorer for the England national team
in midweek, Rooney will be looking for his first Premier
League goal
in 10
games and scoring against the Merseyside outfit would be perfect for the former
Everton striker.
As Arsenal get set to welcome Liverpool to the Emirates
in a
game that is a certain six - pointer
in the race for Champions
League football next season, an outrageous statement has been made by the former Manchester United and
Everton player Phil Neville, who has claimed that he expects to see both Liverpool and Manchester United to pip Arsenal to the top four.
So for me, not making 80 points,
in how many years now, including the 7 years failing to make it past the round of 16
in the Champions
league, plus completely missing the champions
league this year, plus the 10 - 2 humiliation at Bayern, plus the way we sleepwalked through 5 away defeats, throwing away
games that were
in our complete control like
Everton away for example, and so and so on, is nothing short of failure.
So, although
Everton are far behind us
in the
League table, we are
in danger of going a fifth away
game in a row without a win.
Arsenal have won just two of their last SEVEN away
League games, a record which needs to improve considering that Arsene Wenger's side face away fixtures against the likes of Manchester United, Spurs,
Everton, West Ham and Manchester City
in the run - up to the title.
Laurent Koscielny was sent off
in the first - half against
Everton on Sunday
in the final Premier
League game of the season, and
in turn he'll miss next weekend's clash through suspension.
Who knows where Arsenal would be
in the Premier
League table if our France international front man Olivier Giroud had not suffered that freak damage to his Tibia while blocking a clearance
in the last minute of our
game against
Everton in just the second EPL
game of the season.
in our last 2
league games against
everton we played monreal and they purposely played lukaku on right flank and on both occasions lukaku tore monreal apart.
Arsenal are sitting pretty
in third place
in the Premier
League with 8
games to go, and now that we have finally got over our losing streak we just need to carry on making sure that we win all of our
games and not worry about our opponents, according to our new Number 9 Danny Welbeck, who opened the scoring against
Everton yesterday.
0 —
Everton failed to have a shot on target
in a Premier
League home
game for the first time since December 4th 2011 vs Stoke (2211 days ago).
Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be
in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players &
in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer
in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added
games the CL brings will they perform week
in week out
in the
league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the
league??? As for
Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought
in a lot too to give better quality
in the squad as they have Europa
league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the
league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend
in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing
in the CL & Europa, just remember the
League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the
League has been won
in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT
in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs
in the
League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the
League basket and field an under strength side
in all comps hence focusing on the
League until we are no longer in the
League until we are no longer
in the race.
After the shock defeat at home to Burnley
in their opening EPL
game Chelsea have bounced back strongly and won all four since, including an away victory at Tottenham and Leicester and at home to
Everton, so you have to say they are doing well and for that reason the Gunners must approach Sunday's
league meeting with caution.
Their form
in the
league wasn't great either, as they followed a 5 - 0 thumping of Aston Villa with disappointing draws with Chelsea and
Everton, and were then beaten
in a crucial
game with Manchester United, who won 3 - 2 at the Etihad Stadium with a last - minute winner from none other than Robin van Persie, who was indeed making a huge difference
in the title race, as his goal put six points between
league leaders United and City, giving Mancini's side a real uphill task to retain their title even before the half - way point of the season.
We were cautious, but it worked,
Everton hard
in midfield and no easy
game, there better than their
league position suggests.
INSHAA ALLAH this season we will the win the
league of we just keep focus, treat one
game at a time, don't be afraid of man city, man utd, tottenham, Liverpool,
Everton when we we play them away just be patient and respect them at their home grounds sit deep and work hard and we wil get the important results
in our favour
in these
games and also don't underestimate small sides because these
games can give you points and if we you lose or draw against these sides then it can cause huge dent
in our title ambitions... COYG!!!
Lukaku scored 25 goals
in 46
games for
Everton last season, including 18 strikes
in 37 Premier
League outings.
But after some impressive showings from the subs bench and a very good
game from the start of our Champions
League tie
in Barcelona, the 19 - year old was handed his first Premier
League start and grabbed it with both hands at
Everton on Saturday.
Giroud scored the opening goal
in a vital Premier
League win over
Everton in the very next
game and then did the same
in the next
game at QPR.
Sanchez had a great year last year but this year they have both only had one good
game and that was against a very poor
Everton that had the worse defence
in the
league.
Things are looking up on that front at least, with just the
Everton game to go before the international break and three big players
in Petr Cech, Santi Cazorla and Jack Wilshere due back when the Premier
League starts again, according to the Just Arsenal injury page supplied by Physio Room.
Manchester City's
game is the only draw this season,
in addition to the opening day victory over Crystal Palace at home; but, with other Premier
League heavyweights
in Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham and
Everton to visit, Arsenal need to raise their
game and get those 3 points, more often than not.
Walcott had been restricted to
games in the Europa
League and cup competitions, but now looks to be relishing being given a more important role
in this
Everton side.
They have only dropped 2 points out of 10
League games in this campaign when they drew at home to
Everton back
in August.
With a Europa
League away tie
in Belgrade and a Premier
League away clash with
Everton to cope with
in the space of two - and - a-half days, Arsene Wenger has to decide how much to rotate and which Arsenal players should start
in each
game, but he does have the option to bring back Aaron Ramsey and Alexis Sanchez who he left out for the Watford
game.
Hull are doing well being the new boys of this
league, but it will be short lived,
Everton have got a very good team, and playing at home is a very big advantage for them, a comfortable win for
Everton in this
game.
With Arsene Wenger already having to cope with a defensive injury crisis that has left him without Koscielny, Chambers and Mustafi, the decision to leave the Arsenal captain Per Mertesacker and our Spanish international Nacho Monreal back
in London while Arsenal take on Red Star Belgrade away shows clearly that the boss is making the Premier
League game at
Everton on Sunday a big priority over this evening's Europa
League tie.
With Arsene Wenger selecting a very makeshift defence of Debuchy and Holding either side of a central midfielder Elneny, as well as three young Gunners
in Nelson, Willock and Maitland - Niles it was clear that the Gunners were making the Premier
League game away to
Everton on Sunday a big priority.
The other good news for Arsenal ahead of this clash is that
Everton are also
in the Europa
League and their Thursday night
game is at home against the French club Lyon so they can not afford to rotate heavily.