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[manfromdelmonte]

goalie and Seamus looked completely out of their depth today

[Sheedy]

Massive win tonight after a poor run of results. The players finally showed a bit of passion and the crowd responded. Thought McCarthy and Coleman were superb but the stand out for me was gueye in midfield, brilliant performance. Not to often Everton get a win over arsenal so it should give confidence going into the derby on Monday.

[ONeill]

Massive win tonight after a poor run of results. The players finally showed a bit of passion and the crowd responded. Thought McCarthy and Coleman were superb but the stand out for me was gueye in midfield, brilliant performance. Not to often Everton get a win over arsenal so it should give confidence going into the derby on Monday.

Thought the fans were magnificent. The noise was brilliant and spooked an easily spooked Arsenal.

[Fuzzman]

The fans played their part in the final 30 mins but thought they were quiet enough before that.
Was a great battling performance and I see Roy Keane was there to watch it.
We rode our luck I thought at times but there was a lot of raw passion and hard work.

Interesting that Barry wasn't playing and so our midfield with McCarthy and Gana were a lot mobile and didn't allow Arsenal to settle into their passing game. The players looked completely knackered afterwards and that performance alone will give them great confidence going into the derby next Monday. It's a funny old game

[ONeill]

The fans played their part in the final 30 mins but thought they were quiet enough before that.

It started around the 35th minute. McCarthy made a crunching tackle and the crowd burst into life. Atmosphere electric and partly led to the handbagging in the tunnel at HT.

[imtommygunn]

The fans played their part in the final 30 mins but thought they were quiet enough before that.
Was a great battling performance and I see Roy Keane was there to watch it.
We rode our luck I thought at times but there was a lot of raw passion and hard work.

Interesting that Barry wasn't playing and so our midfield with McCarthy and Gana were a lot mobile and didn't allow Arsenal to settle into their passing game. The players looked completely knackered afterwards and that performance alone will give them great confidence going into the derby next Monday. It's a funny old game

I was always surprised Koeman took to Barry due to his mobility. A major criticism this last few games has been of workrate which you won't be shy of with mcCarthy about. Apparently he is looking to leave which wouldn't be good for everton.

[laoislad]

Last nights result is probably a very good one in terms of league ambitions.  No Europe to distract and now no league cup either - essentially from now until Jan it is league games only while the rest of the challengers are going to be preparing for midweek games and then a day or two for prem league games.  A strong start can now be built on to the point where come the turn of the year top 4 should be a very real possibility.  Just have to look at how Leicester amassed the points in the first half of last season to put them in the position where they could drive on home in the second half.

How's that Top 4 finish looking now....

Seriously though how's that Top 4 finish shaping up for ye?..

[Sheedy]

Dreadful 2nd half performance, offered nothing going forward. Mccarthy was massive miss in 2nd half, Gareth Barry  offers nothing. Always gutting to lose in the last minute, even more so when it's against your lovely neighbours.

[Sheedy]

brillant result and performance today. tom davies what a player he is, definite motm. pep's heaviest ever defeat as manager.

really good gesture from the club to have little sunderland fan bradley lowery as mascot today. as the motto says 'cancer has no colours'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38628824

[gawa316]

brillant result and performance today. tom davies what a player he is, definite motm. pep's heaviest ever defeat as manager.

really good gesture from the club to have little sunderland fan bradley lowery as mascot today. as the motto says 'cancer has no colours'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38628824

Some goal alright, what was Lukaku at trying to steal at?!

[johnneycool]

Everton seem to have stumbled on a formation that works for them.

Back three of Funes Mori, A Williams and the young lad Holgate, coupled with Baines and Seamy tacking down the wings.

The man/boy of the moment Davis, all action game supplemented the slower legs of Barry yesterday, but you'd see the likes of Gueye being the obvious replacement once he gets back.

Still think Barkley has a bit to do to be a regular further up the park, but was decent yesterday, Lukaku was bothersome and hit the target when the chance arose.

Mighty fortunate not to have conceded the penalty, but Sterlings reputation may have been a factor in the referees mind.

Probably get beat by Palace next day out though!

[Fuzzman]

Lukaku was just making sure it was going in but if he wanted to have stolen it he would have connected properly.

Everton are having a rather strange season as Koeman has changed quite a lot about how the team play and our personnel. We had 4 shots on target yesterday and scored all 4. Delighted for the new young lads and was surprised Koeman has changed his mind about playing youngsters.

They have beaten both Arsenal and Man City at home now and drew with ManU and Spurs. They were a bit unlucky to lose to Liverpool yet they have lost away to Burnley, Watford and Bournemouth.
Had they have beaten Hull at the end of December then that win yesterday would have been four in a row.

7th is as good as we can hope for I think as I can't see us catching the 6 above us. There are only 5 points between 2nd and 6th and if Costa leaves any of those top 6 could challenge for the title.
I think we need another scoring midfielder as Mirallas hasn't been doing it so far although he looked lively yesterday.

[laoislad]

Lovely jesture by Everton having that young Sunderland fan as a mascot yesterday.

[Fuzzman]

What a game that was at the weekend!
Just shows what Lukaku is capable of when he's in the right frame of mind and gets good supply.
Saying that Bournemouth tend to play quite open football as Howe is a bit like Martinez in that he likes his teams to play out from the back.

I must say back at the start of December before the Arsenal game I was fearing the worst.
We were playing very poorly and not scoring any goals apart from Rom but with the 3 at the back, Coleman seems to getting forward much more and creating and scoring chances.
Then to get knocked out of both cups so early it was as if the season was over with nothing to play for. However, if Utd win the league cup and they or someone else from the top 6 wins the FA cup then 7th place will be good enough to get into Europe again like last season.

We're top of the current form table along with Spurs with 14 points from 18, having scored 17 goals and conceded 6. Lookman seems to be a great little player with such great skill and pace. A lot better than Deulofeu in my opinion and I think he'll score more goals as well.
Only 6 points behind Liverpool now who are in freefall at the moment which as a blue with red brothers is great to see ;-)

I'm not sure about Williams and Mori though as I think they still make too many mistakes. Kone had a great game for Everton reserves, sorry Sunderland at the weekend and I wonder will we be back in for him again or Keane from Burnley. No doubt the big clubs will be watching Lukaku very closely and be tempted to make another offer.
I think he will go at some stage but the question is when. He knows he's always gonna be the top dog with Everton whereas at Chelsea or another big club he'll be under a lot more pressure to perform and work harder.

[neilthemac]

Stadium announcement tomorrow?