Loss Premier League: Everton 1 - 0 Arsenal | Saturday 4th, February | KO: 12:30 GMT| BT Sport

This should be relatively straightforward, the new manager bounce not withstanding.

The starting xi picks itself, unless Partey is not fit enough to start and Lokonga takes his place.

 

[Rattata]

Seems those saying Onana were right. They did a better scouting than Edu bringing done players to retire.

Onana can't pass. He works in a team that plays terrorist football like Everton did today but not in a top team.

 

[Nunowoolmez]

Need a real Number 9 in the summer

Cant help but think someone like Ivan Toney would be ideal for games like this.

 

[MaraDon]

You need a lot of energy to copy these tactics. Dyche wont succeed with those tactics at the Emirates.

The only gap I see from this game was that "long corner". Other than that, nothing we cant fix.

they outplayed us, and we were unable to play between the lines like we are used to.
When Xhaka and Ode are man-marked we suffer, I am worried that we don't have an alternative path to that.

We did not win any individual duels and all the balls that were half-and-half were won by them.

Doucoure and Onana is a midtable/EL midfield, they have underperformed the entire season.

Zinny frustration tell you what you need to know about the game, they were the better team and our alternatives (meaning Eddie dropping deep or something) is nonexistent, something that we need to work on for sure.

we will learn from this, no need to panic.

 

[sdotzdot]

That city game showed me we can beat them, I am very confident we will win in a couple of weeks times at the emirates.

Win against Brentford and beat city and we’re laughing, this game will be completely forgotten. Have to keep our heads.

 

[Artemis]

I just knew it. Sean Dyche was always going to make this an ugly affair. We failed this test. Couldn't even get a draw.

Nketiah's chance comes to mind. Have to do better. Same with Ødegaard's.

We have to be a lot smarter in games like this. There were opportunities to win penalties, especially for Saka. We need better IQ in the penalty area.

In ugly games, we need to win ugly. If Man City win tomorrow, they're in the driving seat.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Yes we deserve nothing but how the hell that got ignored lol.

 

[jones]

someone´s salty.

Course I'm salty that was an awful football match. Not going to act all sophisticated and give Everton credit when they were dogshit doing everything they can to destroy the game.

 

[Rasmi]

Everton didn’t just sit back and defend, they had more shots on target and more corners.

They played on the counter

 

[OnlyOne]

Speaking of elite, Go Birds

You're a man with knowledge, our birds lost to division rivals then absolutely stormed to the super bowl.

 

[sergio_giorgini]

Disastrous result. In every conceivable way.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Performances at Southampton and Everton keep hurting us. Yes Everton were good but our levels consistently drop at these grounds

We were poor because Everton completely blanketed our attack. They were superb and ran like demons for the entirety of the match. It's the Southampton result that was far worse IMO.

 

[Lady_Gooner]

Lost to united on the 4th sept & Everton on 4th feb
This is why I’m superstitious

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Fair play Everton, good effort. They should have gone in at half time with a lead if were being honest. Now that the league is gone, the lads can relax.

 

[avenellroad]

We barely created anything- that was the biggest disappointment. Nketiah’s chance in the first half was golden. He steadied himself and THEN lost his composure.

He needed to hit it across the goal rather than trying the postage stamp shot.

Hit it across the keeper and it’s a goal.

 

[14Henry]

There is no way of spinning getting blown off the pitch by a 19th placed team as a positive. This exact same conversation was being had last year when we'd gotten into 4th after the awful start to the season right before we pissed that away. The only agenda everyone here should have is winning the title and you don't do that getting thumped by a 19th place team. The scoreline flattered us. We were f*cking awful and could easily have lost by 3 or 4.

So what should we do? Call for Artetas head and demand half the team that started is dropped? Or should we blame Edu that he didn't sign Mudryk?

We were awful today. But every league winner has had those days. Even us in our invincible season were we were lucky to scrape a draw.

My post is to try and encourage the drama queen's not to race to twitter saying we are in trouble and the leagues over.

 

[Maybe]

I’d go with Nketiah/Jesus/Saka

Martinelli needs to get dropped ASAP.

I don't see it tbh, think we need to find a solution in the summer. Martinelli is not a winger, Trossard will be useful but he won't play much, and we need Jesus as a CF more than anything

 

[Nunowoolmez]

Onana masterclass.
What a physical monster

Yup....its why I'd prefer him over anyone else this summer tbh.

 

[sdotzdot]

Yes we deserve nothing but how the hell that got ignored lol.

It wasn’t ignored it was an Everton FK. Classic English football this

 

[Gooner Zig]

Think this is a one off tbh. Everton played on adrenaline for most of the game.

They are not gonna play much better all season.

They ran like demons for the entire match. There's no way a team can keep that up over the course of even a few games.

 

[BergMan]

Felt exactly the same as the game against them last season, it’s like we don’t turn up to this ground.