A guest post from @Labo_Goon this morning
After being edged out of the Transfer Trophy by the City of Abu Dhabi in the final days of August, Everton seem to haave slumped into a bit of a meltdown that has now turned into full depression two months on. Perfect time for a visit to Goodison?
With all the attacking purchases Everton has made its hard to believe that they’ve only scored 5 PL goals and are 8 points after 8 games. 4 points coming in their opening 2 fixtures (including a draw at the Etihad) and the other 4 in the 6 since.
Anybody looking at that and the quality we have in our Arsenal team, would expect this being a routine 3 pointer. But then there’s the other side of the coin: Arsenal is yet to win an away PL game this season. Which should give us pause for concern.
Of cause many of the pundits, looking at our away form, said the best we can hope for is a draw as they bought into the “no cajones” jibe and has offered Everton unsolicited advice to put the boot in and get in our faces. Something Ronald Koeman is not shy asking of his players.
And if today is gonna be one of those games, my only hope is that the referee officiates the game even-handed, because I know Arsenal can give as good as they get if allowed.
Going back to the Chelsea game and what we did then, we will need to give Everton due respect and stay on top of them from the get go, not give them any opening. Playing against a team so short of confidence, our biggest obstacle could be complacency. We will need to be focused for the entire 90 and need to get our shots away on target, need to keep Pickford and the Everton defence honest.
Team news is that Alexis, Ramsey and Özil are all expected to start, giving this team a huge transformation attack wise from the one taking the field last weekend.
Could this be the first game we see Lacazette, Alexis and Özil starting together? If they ignite they can be just as potent as Man City’s front 3. Jack Wilshere making a 10-15 minute cameo can also be expected. Hopefully by then the ref would’ve put Ashley Williams and company in their place who still had the stamina for a mass brawl in the dying minutes of their game vs Lyon.
And with Koeman edging closer to doing the walk of shame and there being 3 red cards in the last 4 games between these two teams, this game has the potential to turn quite nasty. So prepare for fireworks Gooners!
Enjoy and good luck to all wherever you’re watching the game today, and don’t forget to keep them fingers crossed
Positively Arsenal 
PG: Gone to ground by circumstances beyond my control. Things are really bad on my island. No electricity, no broadband. Iffy cell phone data. Can only lurk occasionally.
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A shame, the Daily Cannon used to be more supportive.
They are entitled to their opinion, but sounds like they are becoming click bait whores.
Not too many Arsenal blogs actually supporting the team out there, of course a few honourable exceptions, but there are the usual anti Wenger agenda types, as well as one of the most viciously anti Wenger blogs where the writer claims to be non tribal yet has pretty much admitted he is a Spurs fan and fondly remembers his time watching them from the shelf, news review indeed.
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I’m expecting Matt Macey to make his first team debut for us on Tuesday in the CC v Norwich. with Opsina out injured its likely Cech will not be used, so Macey set to become the 7th young player(yeah I know he is 23) to debut for us this season
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Mandy the likes of Daily Cannon are just doing the “negativity sells” thing, like so many other blogs, they see clicks, they see £, Arsenal is the least of their concerns.
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Seems a bit of a curse on the managers the malcontents would have Wenger replaced with, Klopp and Koeman not doing great, though they sit far above some previously suggested candidates, not even any need to name names, but on another note, genuinely hope Owen Coyle is enjoying his new job up in Scotland, and that Moyes is getting satisfaction attending to autumnal gardening, and laudrup is having fun doing whatever he is doing.
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I wonder was Stan Kroenke at Goodison or Twickenham today, if either, his NFL team the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cardinals 33-0 at twickers today, and are now top of the NFC West section, I bet this makes a lot of the ASB very unhappy too, they will fear the Rams winning the super bowl this year, it will take away another one of their silly soundbites
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Mandy it really hurt the ASB that the available modern manager Tomas Tuchel, despite a reported interview, was turned down by Bayern Munich when they sacked Anchelotti, and instead picked 72 year old Jupp Heynckes, they had headlines and articles written about how BM had the guts to go with the next big thing while AFC stuck with an old man.
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our u23’s play spurs u23’s away on monday, kick off is at noon, its expected to be a very young squad with the older and better youths being kept for the CC game v Norwich on Tuesday
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Arsenal don’t half make some chances. I don’t know what the XG was but more than three maybe.
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New post up
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No surprise with the team sheet, thanks to mystic George.
Norwich are also fielding a strong starting XI, with six who played vs Ipswich last Sunday.
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