Match Thread Everton v Arsenal - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[BluePingu]

Been a while since I looked forward to a game. I'd thought/ hoped we had nothing to fear before Leicester, but perhaps this game will be a different beast. Still, a bit of confidence in the team is refreshing. With so many effin injuries, if the '2nd choice' selections continue to make such a good account of themselves, it would go a long way to putting our recent crap run behind us.

 

[croatian blues]

Arsenal was always one of those teams I hated to play against, cause we very rarely got decent result. Today it's stone dead victory (hope that rakia don't speak instead of me). They are pretty rattled and although we can't count on Allan, Digne, Coleman and Rodriguez, think that we were pretty solid in last two games backwards. If Siggy continue to preform like then and Iwobi wan't chase dead flies, we can put real damage on them.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Let's heap some more misery on the thunderbird puppet.

 

[croatian blues]

Been a while since I looked forward to a game. I'd thought/ hoped we had nothing to fear before Leicester, but perhaps this game will be a different beast. Still, a bit of confidence in the team is refreshing. With so many effin injuries, if the '2nd choice' selections continue to make such a good account of themselves, it would go a long way to putting our recent crap run behind us.

Quite opposite, My fear was quite high before Leicester. They are very good team this season, and we didn't do well against them in last few outgoings, but Arsenal is something completely different this year.

 

[BluePingu]

Reason I wasn't bothered about playing Leicester, just felt that with Chelsea we'd got a bit of a monkey off our backs, especially defensively and holding our nerve. Seemed like we could then at least give Leicester a game after all the recent shockers.

Tonight, who knows, I'll leave that to the knowledgable amongst us.

 

[JMT]

Yeah that’s not success in my book.

Not literal success but given the context of what Moyes had to work with and the money we spent it was better than you could have hoped for.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

My brother in law and his brother drew in the ballot for this, so I'm hoping it's a good game for them.

 

[ChesterBlue]

A win here would be a huge statement, broadly I’d be okay with a draw but I feel this is a big chance to really kick on

 

[Barca Blue]

Win this. City don’t get beat. Everton go 2nd. Happy Saturday night Blues.

 

[blue to the bone]

A win would be excellent. But after the 2 results we just had a draw is not the end of the world considering the players missing.

 

[sdk]

Third consecutive clean sheet, please.

 

[FTY]

I’m never normally optimistic before we play any of the Sky 6, but I’d be very very surprised if DCL and Richarlison don’t absolutely shred Luiz/Holding/Mustafi/whoever they play at the back

 

[Mikey O]

Can feel another win to nil tonight - looking really solid at the back and DCL/Richie can always get a goal. Even Siggi and Iwobi are looking better COYB

 

[Tree13]

I’m guessing he’ll go with this;

Pickford
Holgate Keane Mina Godfrey
Doucoure Gomes
Iwobi Gylfi Richarlison
DCL

I’d feel better having Davies in there instead of Gomes I have to say, they’re a very good side despite their league position.

Doucoure and Gomes together as a 2-man midfield is a recipe for disaster.

If Coleman and Rodriguez are not fit to play then I'd go 4-3-3:

Pickford
Holgate Mina Keane Godfrey
Davies Doucoure Sigurdsson
Iwobi DCL Richarlison

 

[Wat Tyler]

Can see these dullards getting first goal and parking the bus. Won’t be as easy as everyone thinks