PL: Arsenal vs Everton | September 23rd | KO: 16:00 BST | Sky Sports

[Batman]

Cech is having a great season so far. Who gives a **** about passing, he's stopping everything.

Yeah it's hard to justify dropping him because of his kicking though it is unfortunate as it's a pillar of Emery's system.

 

[Fewtch]

What i’d like to see on Sunday:

Leno
Bellerin Holding Sokratis Monreal
Torreira Matteo
Mesut
Mkhi/Iwobi Laca Auba​

What I think we’ll see:

Cech
Bellerin Mustafi Sokratis Monreal
Torreira Xhaka
Ramsey
Mesut Laca Auba​

2-0 @full time

This is getting a bit spooky now

 

[FinnGooner]

Wins keep coming but there's still a lot of room for improvement. But we'll get there. Our attacking game is quite fluid already and pressing is slowly improving.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Our performance need to improve in start of games since emery take the job we been slow starters

 

[razörist]

If Auba hadn’t bailed him out, it would’ve been a much more difficult end to the game trying to protect a 1-0 lead.

How would you know we don’t score another one? Really suspect how you guys go out of your way with the if’s and but’s and maybe’s. Why not enjoy the win?

 

[OnlyOne]

Brentford is next actually...but go on.

I knew that but I am a league game type of guy. Let someone else do the non important games.

 

[Gooner_girl14]

Cech was fantastic, MOTM for sure. Torreira starts and we get our first clean sheet. Coincidence? I think not! He looks to just give us more assurance and he plugs those holes between midfield and defence. We were lucky with the second goal as it really took the wind out of Everton. And that's 2 thundering finishes from Laca now. Overall, not wholly convincing but 4 wins in a row, a clean sheet and back in the top 6. We can only get better.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

But to criticize the team today we can't be having such a bad halfs like our first half. Specially at home. Need to show more intensity and will from right from minute 1!

 

[rich 1990]

Clean sheet

 

[Jae]

Cech is having a great season so far. Who gives a **** about passing, he's stopping everything.

As I've said previously mate. People put too much emphasis on it, give me a shot stopper over a ball player any day.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

A horrible performance for the most part but a clean sheet that Cech won almost single handed. A good shift by Laca in particular up front. Torreira in terms of presence was good but his passing was sub par. I'm pleased he kept his head after the yellow and this 90 minutes will be great for his fitness. Everyone else was just okay but there were too many times when a physical effort wasn't made. A burst of pace to intercept or retrieve possession would have made a difference at times. It's all about the points atm and we shouldn't write off our top four chances too early but I'd like to see a bit more cohesion in our game.

 

[albakos]

Glad with the win, we really fought well in second half.

Laca with a MOTM performance, what a fantastic goal.

I love those goals and the camera angles like this.
The way a player opens his body and curls the ball while you know it's going in right at the spiders nest.

Phenomenal.

 

[KrissKringle]

Dark Helmet - MOTM, gloves down
Bellerin - was good for the first time in a long time and so was his crossing
Laca - not great in the first half, but he burried it with a disgusting finish and launched the counter for our second, even though the flag should have been raised for an offside on Auba
Xhaka - sloppy in possession and needs to quit with the fantasy passes
Torreira - pretty good, but also a bit sloppy at times
Ramsey & Özil - lost possession at times, but they played their part in both goals

Overall, it was a decent performance (especially in the second half)with more fluency to our game, but still sloppy and Everton could have spanked us in the first half with the chances they had.

 

[Sniper Mik]

This is as bad a game I've seen Özil play for us. And that's coming from one of his biggest fans. Bad decision making, bottled that counter like he did against Man City at home. Ducked out of a few challenges as well. He really doesn't help his cause sometimes. Very disappointed with him.

 

[CanadianGooner1608]

This is our first clean sheet, and fourth victory in a row in the PL.
There is nothing to be mad about here, I'll just take that result and enjoy the fact we just passed Utd in the table, while being level with Sp**s.

Today is a good day, let's enjoy it!

 

[Batman]

Cech was fantastic, MOTM for sure. Torreira starts and we get our first clean sheet. Coincidence? I think not! He looks to just give us more assurance and he plugs those holes between midfield and defence. We were lucky with the second goal as it really took the wind out of Everton. And that's 2 thundering finishes from Laca now. Overall, not wholly convincing but 4 wins in a row, a clean sheet and back in the top 6. We can only get better.

Where I think he really helps a lot is in dropping back between the CBs when we're building up. He makes the possession during that phase a bit less chaotic. I think by the end of the year we'll see him and Douzi together regularly and hopefully a much more fluid build up.

 

[A_G]

How would you know we don’t score another one? Really suspect how you guys go out of your way with the if’s and but’s and maybe’s. Why not enjoy the win?

We’re not going out of way. It’s not unreasonable to think Özil could have shot there instead of passing the buck to Ramsey, we got away with it today but if you’re doing hypotheticals then Everton could have equalised to get a 1-1 result as well.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Torreira will bave to ease up with his tackling with these ref he won't survive long enough

 

[rich 1990]

In fairness to the moaning, whinging, sanctimonious little ****s on this forum the first half was pretty ****. At this stage of the game though, not everything will be perfect. Results will do and a clean sheet is another step in the right direction.

 

[Hope]

Good win. Not a great performance though. Still huge suspect defensively.