Arsenal Vs Everton

Tough match

Richarlison is back for Everton. We kinda struggle with tricky wingers. Walcott's homecoming as well. Bet he will score.

Doubt we'll keep a cleansheet. But hopefully we'll outscore them.


---------------------------Cech---------------------------------
Bellerin----------mustafi------Sokratis-----------Monreal
--------------XHAKA---------Guendouzi-----------------------
Ozil------------------Ramsey---------------------Aubameyang
-----------------------Lacazette------------------------------

No point in hoping for a cleansheet. Just need to take all our chances.

Team:

Cech; Bellerin, Mustafi, Sokratis, Monreal; Torreira, XHAKA; Ozil, Ramsey, Aubameyang; Lacazette

Subs: Leno, Holding, Lichtsteiner, Elneny, Guendouzi, Iwobi, Welbeck

Mkhitaryan out injured.

Everton:

Pickford; Kenny, Keane, Zouma, Digne; Gueye, Davies; Walcott, Sigurdsson, Richarlison; Calvert-Lewin

How nice of them to bench Tosun.

Torreira-XHAKA pivot. Interesting.

Would've preferred to see Iwobi over Ramsey but either way c'mon Arsenal!

Set piece goal for us maybe
COYG

100% should be losing this.

It's the same problems we had vs Newcaslte in the first half. Midfield pivot and AM trio are detached from one another. Our only way forward has been to swing a pass out to our full backs but Everton are reading it and enjoying the space we're leaving at the back.

Biggest sign something isn't working is that Ozil and Ramsey are both anonymous. Very unusual for players who typically take a lot of touches.

The poor balance in the team = more stray passes = more chances for the opposition to hurt us in transition.

I hope being bad in the first half is not going to be a common occurrence under Emery.

Looks like Ramsey is playing as a LAM and Ozil RAM. There is no '10'

4-2-2-2 is one of the worst formations out there and we seem to be morphing into it.

Iwobi would be better than Ramsey in this system.

opponents can create more while having far less possession argh

We have a problem that too many of our best players are at their best in the same positions.

The squad doesn't have the right balance. We knew this already but there's little we can do about it. Even if you bench a couple of them, who comes in? Mkhitaryan, another 10, or Iwobi, who also likes playing the middle. Or Welbeck, another striker.

A world class finish from Lacazette and an incredibly lucky second from Auba has completely changed things.

Winning this would be robbery tbh.

Cech is my MotM. Ramsey still leaves a lot to be desired.

We did it


We finally got a clean sheet!

It has to be one of Ozil and Ramsey from now on.

Play Iwobi/Mkhi/Welbeck on the right, let Ozil or Ramsey play as the 10.

Bin Ramsey and Welbeck in the summer, get a couple of wingers (or promote Nelson if he does well on loan). Promote Smith-Rowe to Ozil's backup.

Until then, just hope Auba and Laca keep banging in the goals I guess.

Love Laca's strikes.

Great 2nd half. Seems to be a pattern now.

Didn't concede which is great

6 points off the top now. 4 off 2nd place.

This is our season for sure.

its 4-2-2-2 in attack
its 4-2-3-1 in defence.

Problem is in the transition between the two systems.

Jao moutino & banega type players would have worked magic.

Ozil/Ramsey need to to understand each others movement and get the team balance right.

against small teams no problem
against big teams going to be very hard

the plan is get 4th champions league and trophy etc
build from there next season

Let see.

our attack is really good.