EPL | Everton (H) v Arsenal (A) | 13th December 2016 | 19:45 GMT | BT Sport

[Notorious Big]

Experts from China TV said that Chelsea is in driving seat right now.

 

[Rocky]

A great opportunity to give minutes? Yeah, in a must win game, let's give the fringe players minutes.

Great time to get condescending with people who disagree with you when your chosen starting 11, that you advocated so strongly earlier in this thread just lost this so-called must-win game...

How did Walcott look in the game? Like the streaky player he's always been? A player you were so keen to see start over Lucas. Last time I checked, Lucas scored a hat-trick away in Europe. You're only as good as your last match...

Lucas is a substantially superior footballer to Walcott and he's had to sit on the bench and watch him play **** and his team lose only a couple of days after his last starting opportunity.

Next another person will say that players earn a handsome wage and so should be able to play twice a week. Whenever that old chestnut comes up, you know that the person arguing against rotation is resorting to straw man arguments.

Ramsey was a well-paid man when he got tackled by Shawcross, so I suppose he should have just reminded himself of his salary and run it off...

 

[Santi's Left Foot]

Wouldn't blame Iwobi there tbh, credit the Everton players for throwing their bodies in the way to keep the result

The other side would have been a certain goal even if Giroud was in the way. Would have been a harder technique though don't blame him for putting his foot through it instead of opening up.

 

[redanddread]

Koeman has an Indian sign over Arsène for sure. Goodison was rocking tonight and they really drove their team on.

 

[Vinci]

**** off Ronald you ginger mayonnaise eating ****.

What's wrong with mayonaisse?

Ever had mayonaisse with your chips?

 

[PayableOnDeath]

Lol.

Or how nobody will simply give credit to Everton for Beaten us.

Instead Özil was ****, And we applied no pressure to their flank players.

I'm really surprised at the total lack of rotation. I knew the changes I wanted wouldn't happen, but I felt sure that Gibbs would get a game.

A great opportunity to give minutes to Gibbs, Lucas, Elneny, Iwobi not taken and nothing to show for it.

I honestly think it is time for an end to this management of fear where rotation is such a feared concept. Just leaves players on the bench itching for a game and not getting enough game time, and first 11 players having dips in form.

Exactly exactly how i feel. I suppose keeping the dressing room happy lays a part. If walcott is dropped for perez, even one game, he gets shown up and he leaves

 

[IchirotoV2]

No one is allowed to say that we'll ever win anything easy because of the opponents terrible form. It's what we do. We show up to any team that haven't had a win for (insert-number-of-games-here) and being terribly out of form just to play like absolute toss giving them a Christmas present (even when it's not Christmas), way too often. We get to see the Arsenal Charity Club waaaay too often.

We can lose to any team, any time. If you think that we'll steam roll City, just because they're in bad form, think of this match and the countless similar situations where we bottled it.

Balls.

I'm just fuming

 

[Vinci]

Bad loss at the opening day, good run until around new year, losing against Koeman around x-mas, facing Bayer Munchen in final16.

I've seen that movie!

Don't spoil the ending!

 

[SuperGoon]

Bad loss at the opening day, good run until around new year, losing against Koeman around x-mas, facing Bayer Munchen in final16.

I've seen that movie!

 

[David_Smith]

Everton's best performance of the season, and I have no clue why they chose today to show up of all teams.

 

[redanddread]

Experts from China TV said that Chelsea is in driving seat right now.

 

[Bendtneer]

Well it's good we have a match in 4 days. Let's beat city n get over this result.its 3.30 am n i hav to get up for work at 7.Fck off William.

 

[The_Playmaker]

It's not the result that annoys me. More so our mentality. It's not the mentality of winning before style. At 1-0 we hadn't even fashioned a clear chance before we got a lucky goal. Yet we continue to pop the ball around like we ripped them apart as if it were a training session.

We turned what was a poisonous atmosphere towards Everton into the complete opposite. We did that and we do it regularly. There is alot of fighting talk and talk about focus but every now and then we don't show it and in the end that will be our downfall.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Koeman has an Indian sign over Arsène for sure. Goodison was rocking tonight and they really drove their team on.

sadly we invite them after we scored their stadium was so quite and their players seemed down in confidence

 

[razörist]

Yeah those are some great blocks. But you just know if it had fallen to Alexis he would have managed to bury it.

Conviction. The difference between trying to shoot on target and a clinical finish.

 

[Hunta]

Charity fc at it again.

 

[redanddread]

The only thing I'd say is that we let them off the hook in the first 1/2 - once we went 1-0 I think we should have turned the screw because there was a moment when the crowd could have turned.

 

[Lady_Gooner]

Seriously what's the obsession with Lucas? Am I missing something because to me he's very average from what I've seen

 

[Jasard]

Waiting to be convinced by Xhaka. That said, glad he is getting a run in the team even if he does have a number of mistakes in him. It's the only way we will know if he's legit.

 

[GoonerSauras's Nan]

See this why as arsenal fans, we can't get excited until were in 1st place on the last game of the season, then again we'd still **** that up lmaooooo