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.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Lets hope we get one goal. Would take 3 points playing awful for handful of games a season

 

[TheGreatWright8]

Think we drop points here

I got that exact feeling as well.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

I genuinely don't know what Martinelli's trying to do a lot of the time, he's trying to beat two players very wide on the left where if he gets past them he'll be on his weaker foot in a bad crossing situation. He needs to keep it a bit more simple. Would like to see some alterations tho, I know we can't exactly abandon our buildup but wouldn't mind Zinny staying wide and maybe Martinelli coming infield a bit.

 

[Sniper Mik]

Trossard doesn't have the legs to keep up with Iwobi on the break. Unlikely he'd come on unless we are 1-0 down

 

[TriniGunner]

The club gambled on him imo. Sort his future out and hopefully he develops. But he better step up soon or things will change very quickly for him

He's a young player. People need to give it a ****ing rest.

 

[MaraDon]

So hard on our boys, disgusting to see. Give credit to Everton FFS.

 

[Sanchez11]

Think we drop points here

Was always gonna happen with Dyche been appointed.

 

[A_G]

Very surprised at how emotional this place is

You’ve been on here too long to be surprised

 

[OnlyOne]

Thanks boss, nice to be here. What do you think about the game? I'm ****ing nervous.

Calm, game was always going to be like this with Dyche, they want to kick the f*ck out of us and will run through a brick wall. I hope they tire a little. Need Trossard on though as Nelli has been really poor.

 

[Bagels]

Everton are doubling up on our two wingers, best moments came when Zinny and Xhaka supported Martinelli and there was a instance where White made a run and Ødegaard's pass was just slightly overhit.

Everton’s success is creating a defensive overload on our wingers, while smothering the space of the supporting runners.

People BLAMING Martinelli, Xhaka, etc,. I think are missing the cause and seeing only the effect.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

@Tir Na Nog

I think the commentator said this is the first time in 8 years that we have named the same line-up in an "X" amount of games, 8 years ago was 2015.

Saw you mention that team and how good it was and how many points we picked up that calendar year...shows how Arsène must have struggled after that year, when everyone started getting injured so much...would have won the title if that first 11 stayed mainly fit, shows how important your main players being available is.

We weren't ever gonna win the league playing Koscielny every week.

 

[Diesel]

on the contrary, he is not sitting back, he is pressing, he is transitioning the ball fast, he is man-marking both Xhaka and Ødegaard, and he has injected believe in a team that was against the ropes during the entire season.

Dyche showing why he is a football man and why he is the right guy to keep Everton at the PL.

With his 25 percent possession and our complete naivety on every pass. Annoying game. Draw is failure but loss here is shambolic.

 

[2Smokeyy]

Think we drop points here

Still think we’ll win this but it’ll be a scrappy goal or something. Would love a Trossard goal and him to secure his place in the starting eleven.

 

[jones]

There are no spaces between the lines, It is very hard to play our football under these conditions.

We are doing well, we kept a clean sheet, Everton eventually will get tired and we will score.

Yes there's little space but Zinchenko made a bunch of unforced poor decisions, bad touches etc

It's difficult to play a team like this but if we're a top team we have to move the ball around quicker and with bad intentions, too many players in bad form low on confidence at the moment for some reason.

 

[BergMan]

Why couldn’t we have played Everton under Lampard when they were crap? They played out of their skins in that half.

 

[Game Over]

This is frustrating

 

[sergio_giorgini]

Annoying thing is I think Everton can keep up this intensity second half. We need to impose ourselves more, win more duels and use the ball better. We’ll have to play much better to get a result now.

 

[Farzad Stoned]

on the contrary, he is not sitting back, he is pressing, he is transitioning the ball fast, he is man-marking both Xhaka and Ødegaard, and he has injected believe in a team that was against the ropes during the entire season.

Dyche showing why he is a football man and why he is the right guy to keep Everton at the PL.

I hate him and his football the refs are letting them play hockey out there. I want him to never get a job in pl again. Awful football

 

[BergMan]

Why couldn’t we have played Everton under Lampard when they were crap? They played out of their skins in that half.

 

[kofigunner]

Vieira giving Martinelli a few tactical pointers