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Match Thread Arsenal v Everton KO Sun 23 Sep 2018 4pm

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On train home now. I thought we played quite well and were the better team in parts.. difference was they took their chances and we never..

Atleast we had a go at them, on another day we'd have scored 3 there.
 
Promising signs already in just a handful of games. Going the game is no longer a chore. Difference today was us not having a boss slotter otherwise they were there to be well spanked. More confident in our future than for years. Get Mina Bernard and Gomes fully fit. And it’s a different outlook. We will smash Fulham
 
On train home now. I thought we played quite well and were the better team in parts.. difference was they took their chances and we never..

Atleast we had a go at them, on another day we'd have scored 3 there.

We certainly did. We were no pushovers and Arsenal will know they were in a game.

If, we'd had Romelu Lukaku in place of DCL on those counter attacks, I'm sure we'd have torn Arsenal to bits. It's a shame now we've replaced the mediocre group of supporting forwards we had in Mirallas, Deulofeu, Barkley etc with a superior group, actually capable of counter-attacking, we now don't have the pacy finisher to complement them.
 

For what felt like the first time in years we more than matched Arsenal at their place. We created more today than I can remember in years. I thought Digne did well, Davies partnering Gana looked a more progressive partnership and we competed all over the pitch. We know the margins that decide matches can be tight and our inability to take clear chances was the difference. My biggest complaint today was the lack of a response to the goals, heads went down and we went through the motions. We lacked any intensity. Winnng sides respond when it’s going against them, we don’t. That’s what has to change.
 
We have got a £25m winger out on loan, a £24m midfielder and a 27m striker on the bench and a £27m defender in the stands.



Think the narrative is fairly accurate, nobody is painting the picture (as far as I can tell) that Arsenal totally outplayed us are they? Equally, I’m not sure I agree that anyone is saying that we were good value for anything more than a point. We were just as wasteful as Arsenal, they were just clinical when it mattered. On that basis, they probably deserved their win. At times, we looked brighter than we have done in recent games but no team can afford to keep missing big opportunities in games like these.

We can count ourselves unfortunate to concede the Auba goal but perhaps fortunate not to concede a penalty for the handball. Let’s not forget that Pickford made a couple of very good saves too. In fact i’d argue that Cech was the busier of the two keepers but all were saves you’d expect him to make. Save of the game was Pickford from Monreal for me in the 1st half.

unfortunate yeah ypu could say that considering that guy has now scored two goals against us this year that were both yards offside
 
VAR, is not adopting it the most senseless decision the premier league clubs ever came to?

No VAR is leading to plenty of goals that shouldn't stand and other big penalty decisions just ignored. Without VAR players need to dive and give a few repeats too, before a referee acts.

Competent officiating is a rarity in the prem, especially when Jon Moss and his team are doing it. Not bringing in VAR was always a huge mistake and always seemed senseless, we have some of the worst officials in Europe in the prem, no wonder we had none on the World Cup.

There's only Neill Oliver anything like good enough and a decent ref, most of the others are ordinary at best and most nowhere near even that.

Tbf VAR may have flagged a pen for Arsenal in the first half too, the officials are just so utterly incompetent these days that they really need help and all they can get, its absolutely senseless there's no VAR.

Neil Oliver is the only good referee, and even he can make poor decisions and have bad matches, but he's still miles better than the rest,

Moss has plenty of competition, but must be well in the running for the worst referee going atm, granted though that race is close and it's a very tough decision indeed, there are just so many who are very, very bad.

Fiso poster 'math!' commented..

(Fiso is a fantasy football site I sometimes look at)

'I cover a lot of matches around europe for work and it is amazing to see how well it is used in leagues like Bundesliga 1&2 and the portuguese league. Earlier today a red card was reversed early in a match because the player was initially offside.'

if they had VAR, matches would inevitably be longer such is the frequency of poor decisions and general incompetence of most if not quite all the officials in use, it can just seem like one one bad mistake follows soon after the last, something has to be done.

The officials in premier league now seem to be holding a festival of incompetence every weekend, give them help, HOW THEY NEED IT.

The case against is now so weak, it's almost unarguable.
 
Very predictable that those cowards would bottle another game they had fought their way right into.

Idrissa Gueye worst player on the park yet AGAIN.
Worst player? You are having a laugh. He was our best player. Mom was their keeper bud. Maybe watch the game without an agenda.
 

When am I going to actually care about this shower of overpaid prissies that dare to wear the RBJ that was worn by so many Greats since 1878. Pathetic.
 
Lose Davies and DCL and this is actually a really good team.

Obviously we'll lose today because we're Everton and didn't take our chances in the first half and they'll slot a few undeserved goals in the second half, but we have the making of a good side here.
Nigh on perfect!
 
Can't question his movement as there is barely is any.

His heat map from the first 4 games suggests otherwise...

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