Unfortunately as is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the game difficult for ourselves, with a few minutes of the
first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball
on the edge of
Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a
shot off
first time then we would not have been chasing back towards our own
goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to
shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of
Everton bodies when there were better options
on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay
on his feet for twenty or so yards before releasing Barkley, Koscielny had been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative
shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.