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Arsenal 3-2 Everton - Sunday 23rd February, 2020


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So annoying. Arsenal were the better team up until about 60 minutes but we did enough to get an equaliser at the end. Both Aubameyang goals were too easy from a defensive perspective. Sidibe is available for £12m as a clause in his loan. He isn't good enough to be getting us into the top six as a first choice but it's possibly an option worth exploring still as he's good going forward but that's only enough against non-top six teams at home. 

Pickford, Mina and Holgate can't really be blamed for any of the three goals though Pickford was lucky to get away with that one where Nketiah hits the bar after a misjudged pass into Sigurdsson. While not directly at fault for any goals, Baines looked his age for probably the first time, didn't offer much going forward.

Gomes who has barely walked for three months was so much better than Delph and Schneiderlin when he came on it was embarrassing. He has to start for the rest of the season alongside Schneiderlin or Davies. Schneiderlin and Delph both offer very little going forward but at least Schneiderlin doesn't regularly give the ball away like Delph does. I can't see any benefits in playing the lad, rather give Davies the minutes. Sigurdsson has been alright in recent weeks and I thought the narrow midfield four worked reasonably well today but it's time to start phasing him out. I thought Iwobi should have stayed on instead of him with Bernard coming to the left wing, but Iwobi himself is recovering from an injury so may not have had 90 minutes in him.

Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin did alright. Obviously both scored, but then Calvert-Lewin also missed two chances that were easier than the one he scored. The header at the end was just a bit too high for him but the one that fell to him at point blank range, if it was onside, should have been a definite goal, and he should have got more on that other one that came across goal from Richarlison.

Can't be too upset with the way we played overall. Two teams who gave away too many chances (which is annoying as that isn't usually our problem) and our forwards weren't quite as clinical today as theirs.

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Just now, RandoEFC said:

Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin did alright. Obviously both scored, but then Calvert-Lewin also missed two chances that were easier than the one he scored. The header at the end was just a bit too high for him but the one that fell to him at point blank range, if it was onside, should have been a definite goal, and he should have got more on that other one that came across goal from Richarlison.

 

That was the main chance he should have scored. Was onside as Xhaka played him onside in the LB position near the corner. Leno did well but as a striker in that area you just have to hit the back of the net.

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2 hours ago, Eco said:

How has Pepe been at Arsneal this year? I loved him last year at Lille, but haven't seen him since his move to the EPL. 

 

2 hours ago, Storts said:

He’s awful - buying from that farmers league is very difficult 

6 goals and 8 assists in 19 starts at a new club in a new country. Obviously not as good as he was in France, but not bad at all. People are so quick to label players as flops. 

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That was actually a really enjoyable game I thought. Pretty end to end, both teams really going for it and most refreshingly of all very little VAR nonsense. Wish there were more games like that.

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