Also assisting the equalizer
against Everton must have done his confidence a world of good.
Manchester United defender Chris Smalling has called on his teammates to respond in a positive manner following their 3 - 0 defeat
against Everton at Goodison Park on Sunday.
As a result, City move back to within three points of Arsenal, while their focus switches to cup competitions next week with a League Cup outing
against Everton on Wednesday night before a trip to Norwich City in the FA Cup next Saturday.
Yea, what if Pool and city somehow drop points and we also draw
against Everton???? Am not ruling that out seeing as we struggled against Sunderland who are relegated at HOME....
When a guy misses chances in one game, straight away to take him out would be harsh and I thought his presence would be important
against Everton.»
They went down 1 - 0 at Chelsea, 3 - 0
against Everton at Goodison Park and then drew another blank at the weekend, meaning they went three top - flight matches without a goal or a point for the first time in 26 years.
With the arrival of Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang to Arsenal, and the match
against Everton where Lacazette was benched to allow the record signing to have his debutin which he did not disappoint, leaves the question on what happens to Lacazette should Arsene Wenger keep the format of playing with one centre forward.
The win
against Everton was very important and I was very nervous before the match as we have given our all against a good Watford side and an excellent Bayern Munich side, also we have struggled
against Everton for the past few seasons.
Arsene Wenger has never been short of superlatives to describe his Arsenal squad when they are on a good run, and he used a whole boatload of them in the run up to today's game
against Everton.
Hopefully he and the boys can maintain this recent run, establish some consistency and put in the proper performance
against Everton this weekend.
Having had an impressive 45 minutes against Benfica in the Emirates cup, it was anticipated that Campbell would feature regularly for Arsenal; but after those 45 inspiring minutes for the Costa Rican, he has just seen 24 minutes of action — 7 minutes in the FA Community Shield and 17 minutes in the draw
against Everton — and it is difficult to see any improvement in the youngster getting more game time, as the season progresses.
Unless our team shows us something different
against Everton and QPR, I am not going to look forward to our FA Cup match.
Against Everton: Sczezney Chambers.
Unless they are actually carrying a knock though, I think that the Arsenal manager will start all of his big players
against Everton today, despite the fact that we have the next Capital One cup game coming up on Tuesday.
In this season, I only saw them played bravely twice,
against Everton in the Goodison Park and when facing Tottenham at the Emirates.
As Arsene Wenger said, it was vital that Arsenal returned to winning ways
against Everton this weekend, and one of the heros of that game, David Ospina, told the Mail how important it was to keep picking up points in the title race.
The Spaniard has completed 89 % of his passes successfully, taking into account that he played just 17 minutes in Arsenal's comeback draw
against Everton.
and most of those were tap ins or free header chances... he missed all of those,
against everton he missed two FREE HEADERS... luckily we did nt pay for them on that game but in future if you miss such chanes you pay for them.
The French international was supposed to be our saviour in the goalscoring department, but that mantle has now been passed on to Aubameyang, who had scored in his first Arsenal appearance
against Everton but couldn't get a look in against Tottenham.
Arsene Wenger definitely knows his favourite Arsenal starting XI and rarely deviates from that line - up in the Premier League matches, but having played two tough matches in three days, I would think injuries and tiredness will force changes
against Everton.
Also Jon, while we're talking about Riley, a former referee, famous for ending the Invincibles 49 match unbeaten run by awarding a disgraceful penalty against Sol Campbell after a Wayne Rooney dive and for also giving 11 penalties in 11 games to Ruud van Nistelroy in the days when Manchester United were Arsenal's only challengers and we've not even started talking about Mike Dean from Merseyside who told the BBC that he was a Tranmere Rovers supporter after giving several bad decisions
against Everton but recently was forced to admit to being Liverpool fan.
OT: Note to Wenger: Burnley played extremely well
against Everton.
This game remind me of the 2013 1 - 1 draw
against Everton at the Emirates in which Everton had 65 % possession for almost the entire match, where Arsenal allowed Everton to play freely from the back by not closing them down and Szczesny boot everything he received long up field straight back to the Everton players and goalkeeper.
But when Aubameyang puts in the world class movement and less wasteful world class finishes like he did
against Everton, We know we pin back any team and that's the first rule in defending, attacking competently.
Wenger has said it many a times that Joel features in his plans and was evident from the fact when he came on
against Everton when we were 2 - 0 down.
Fans met in Milan on Friday, before driving through Switzerland and taking a ferry from France to arrive in England ahead of kick - off
against Everton on Saturday evening.
Struggled
against Everton's strikers and seemed to be running through treacle all game.
Next weekend could be massive for us because we have a home game
against Everton after the midweek Champions League clash with Monaco.
Arsenal fans will be hoping and expecting more than just a positive attitude from the France international striker Olivier Giroud tomorrow, if Arsene Wenger selects him to play
against Everton at the Emirates stadium that is.
Olivier Giroud had a mare when Arsenal played Monaco, but he redeemed himself a little by opening the scoring
against Everton on Saturday.
They used to play more bravely, like when they were
against Everton and Tottenham, but the guts seemed to disappear.
Iwobi did not play so bad
against Everton
Im sure wenger said afterwards
against everton that he did nt want flamini higher up the pitch trying to score
I fear it will be
against Everton at the last day of the season.
Last week,
against Everton, when Arsenal were up against it big time, they managed to rescue themselves by scoring two equalizing goals, thereby rescuing a crucial away point in the Premier League.
One of the few player4s
against Everton on that final who struggled was Olivier Giroud and that will not have escaped the attention of Arsene Wenger.
why did we suffer mental breakdown
against Everton et al?
The German has taken part in 5 EPL games this season and was only on the winning side once (
against Everton) and his last competitive match was in our awful FA Cup elimination to Nottingham Forest.
The Spaniard was amazing
against Everton, putting in a display that was reminiscent of Peter Schmeichel at his best.
The Spanish striker has struggled throughout his time at Tottenham, but did at least get off the mark for the league season
against Everton a couple of weeks ago.
His performance
against Everton epitomised his improvement.
As long as Sunderland don't win
against Everton, Even if that game finished a draw, Newcastle will still have a chance of staying up and thats the senario we need for them to be in, against the spuds.
Otherwise he's always been pretty solid and this year I think he's been great, with the obvious exception of the comical poor back pass
against Everton.
Arsenal have really struggled in the final third at times, which we saw again
against Everton.
Then, you may understand WHY our defence struggled
against an Everton team that have played together all last Season, on their own turf, and having rested for a week.
Fighting spirit got us through Crystal Palace, Fighting spirit brought us back
against Everton.
With a very important final tough test in the league
against Everton on the last day of the season, Koscielny will hope to be fit and ready to face the task of handling powerhouse striker Romelu Lukaku.
That sitter
against Everton was the final straw for me.
For me, the season was lost a long time ago when we had two weak capitulations in a row
against Everton and City.
Gabriel is likely to get the nod ahead of Holding when Arsenal come up
against Everton on Tuesday night.