Arsenal struggle to score against Everton in disappointing draw
Arsenal failed miserably to beat Everton in the Premier League as they struggled to cut Liverpool’s lead at the top of the table.
The Gunners were held to a 0-0 draw against the blue side of Merseyside soul destroyingly at home.
The North Londoner’s were completely on top of Sean Dyche’s team who failed to register a shot on target throughout the 90 minutes!
Meanwhile Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal couldn’t have had much more of the ball with just over 76% possession, but as they say “possession doesn’t win you football” and today it showed.
There was a penalty shout in the second half after Thomas Partey went down in the box but even with the eagle eyes of VAR it was rejected.
Jordan Pickford denied Arsenal time and time again during the game who just couldn’t score versus the England International in the heart of the goalmouth.
It was also The Gunners second consecutive draw in the Premier League following their frustrating 1-1 draw at Craven Cottage last Sunday, now only picking up two points in six.
Arteta spoke to Arsenal’s media team after the game admitting that his side deserved better open heartedly:”I feel very disappointed not to win the game, because, obviously, if there’s a team that deserved to win, there’s only one, which is Arsenal. We gave nothing away, no shots conceded, dominated our play, not allowed them to run, no set pieces. High press excellent. We got them there.”
The Spaniard further declared that Arsenal did all that they could do to muster a victory: ”But at the end you have to try to generate the highest winning probability. Now that you draw the game, you want more. Even if we win it, we always want more. But I cannot ask much more of the boys apart from putting the ball in the net.”
Arsenal will play Crystal Palace in the League Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday at the Emirates, and they’ll then play Ipswich Town in their next Premier League game on December 27th, which they must win to get back on track in their title pursuit.
Liam Harding
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Again it shows arsenal needs a quality striker and if arteta thinks he doesn’t then he’s not the manager for arsenal he needs to stop being stubborn and buy one but a quality one not a panic buy like Jesus
@Dereck
Arsenal did nothing! The evidence of doing “everything” is getting results which comes with goals.
And it’s unfortunate Arteta is still commending players who didn’t deliver on Saturday not minding the gap at the top is becoming wider and wider. I wonder how far Arteta will take Arsenal after 5 or 7 years?
We did nothing!
We did absolutely nothing for 90 minutes. There were no golden chances to be missed because we created nothing. The midfield is truly average without Partey anchoring it. What does rice bring to the team? He’s nowhere Partey at 6 and he’s poor in an attacking sense at 8. Odegaard is brilliant down one side of the pitch and truly awful down the other. Anything he tries down the left just ends up at the feet of the opposition. Martinelli has regressed and Havertz is okay. We need an attacking 8 and a left winger starter and a different cf option if we want to win this league however Arteta will more than likely buy another left back and defensive midfielder.
But according to Arteta after the game speaking to Sky Sports, said that we thoroughly deserved to win the game.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
He talks a good game ,if teams were awarded trophies for talking our trophy cabinet would be bursting at the seems
The difference between Arteta and slot ,one goes for the win the other not to lose ,that mentality could be the difference between who lifts the league come seasons end .
A truly awful game of football which showed the shortcomings of our manager and a lot of our players .
Very fortunate that Liverpool went down to 10 men and didn’t go further ahead of us .
Just hope Brentford can take advantage of Chelsea’s dodgy defence today ,but if they win I expect them to be Liverpools main rival for the PL.
Probably have more chance in the CL now as managers in the league know how to nullify Artetas (Peps)tactics
Here’s hoping Arteta is really Reverse Wenger. First years winning diddly squat and later years winning loads.
More like Wengerlite- top 4 without a haul of cup trophies. It is depressing to see that the EPL chance has gone. Chelsea are improving fast and will be out of sight next season.
Bryan,
Dream on. No chance under this manager.🤦♂️
Bryan, five years of winning diddly squat ? Did you miss the FA Cup win in 2020 ?
Herr Drier,
One FA Cup in five years, not much of a return though is it.
Especially with the backing Arteta as had, along with the money that’s been wasted.
But who knows, come 2030 and whatever phase we’ll be in, maybe we will have added some more impressive stats rather than trophy’s to the list of Arteta’s honours.😉👍
Derek, 2020 is 4 years ago, not 5.
Money doesn’t guarantee success, as has been proved by that lot in N17.
Herr Drier,
Firstly knowing this club won’t have the balls to dismiss Arteta before the end of the season, I stand by my 5 year comment.
And secondly, your right money doesn’t guarantee you success, but it gives you a much better chance of success.
As good a coach as Guardiola is lorded to be, the question mark for me with him is that the three clubs he’s managed have all been well backed financially. I would have liked to see him with a club that never had such backing, then we would have got a truer picture of him as a coach.
Herr Drier,
Apologies, I forgot to mention concerning your Money doesn’t guarantee success quote.
Your right it doesn’t, and it makes it even more important that you don’t waste it when you do spend it, like Arteta has.
He has hardly wanted it hasvhe. He’s built a team that has challenged ‘the best team in the world’ for the last two seasons and has given us lots of beautiful football games that have been a joy to watch.
Admin Pat,
you really won’t have a word said against Arteta will you.
Priceless, absolutely priceless.🤷♂️🤦♂️
You have been on here 5 minutes and you know nothing about me. What i do know is that you are flooding my timeline with 50 anti.Arteta posts every day. JA is open to opinions from AlL Arsenal fans, not just you. If you carry on insulting anyone who disagrees with (including me) you will be moderated. I am very tolerant but I don’t put up with anyone telling fellow Arsenal fans how to think.
Admin Pat,
I don’t tell anyone how to think. It’s my opinion, which like the others I’m entitled to.
And I don’t insult anyone opinion, stop telling lies about me. Its not the first time you’ve accused me of this, it simply isn’t true.
While I don’t always agree with some of the comments of others, I would never get personal or insulting to them.
And I don’t tell my fellow Arsenal fans what to think, they’re adults and like there going to do what I tell them to think.
Still riding on the trophy Aubameyang won for us Herr Dierr?
HP, I didn’t realise Aubameyang was the only Arsenal player on the pitch.
As if you are not one of those who attributed our bad run of form on Odegaard injury. Is he the only player on the pitch? Is Saka, Saliba, Gabriel our only players on the pitch.
Aubameyang won it for us single handedly. Your opinion or feelings on that fact is irrelevant.
The fact that Arteta has failed to even clear the first round since then prove it even more.
In a sport where teams are competing,no single player can win or lose a game. He may well have scored the goals, but the other players all played their part.
If you can’t see it then team sports isn’t for you.
Herr Dier how convenient it’s a team sport only when it suits you.
If you deny Aubameyang won it for us single handedly (not that it matters because he did whether you like it or not) then you can’t cite injuries or red cards or unavailability of any player as an excuse because we have a squad of 25 players expensively assembled.
After all its a team sport isn’t it?
Ben whites overlaps down right badly missed
Timber provided the overlapping runs against WHU a few games ago to great effect – no idea why he didn’t do it so much yesterday. White doesn’t always do it either, they seem to mix it up – not sure why that would be unless it’s instruction from the manager or something to do with the way Everton played.
Last season they went to Dubai, I think this season they must go to North Korea. Arsenal must improve their game, at the moment they are very slowly