Arsenal vs Everton, The Premier League, Emirates Stadium, Kick Off 17:30 Local Time
Arsenal: Cech, Bellerin, Gabriel, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Sanchez, Giroud
Subs: Debuchy, Gibbs, Walcott, Flamini, Chambers,Campbell, Macey
Everton: Howard, Coleman, Galloway, Jagielka, Stones, Barry, McCarthy, Lennon, Deulofeu, Barkley, Lukaku.
Everton Subs: Joel, Kone, Mirallas, Naismith, Cleverley, Osman, Funes Mori.
Arsenal have been absolutely flying since the Olympiakos disaster and a home match against Everton should have The Emirates faithful rubbing their hands together in anticipation of another fine show of attacking football.
But Everton have improved again under Roberto Martinez and Arsenal will have to be at their best if they aren’t to succumb to another shock defeat.
Everton won’t just turn up and attempt to park the bus – that’s not the style of Martinez and Everton have too many good players going forward to play for a point form the off.
Ross Barkley was quiet against Manchester United but has been in fine form and will drive his team forward form the deep midfield positions that he will probably find himself in.
But you do feel that it’s now or never for Arsenal and a serious title push.
With Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea seemingly in transition, Arsenal’s biggest challengers are probably Manchester City, who are also still susceptible to a shock defeat.
Arsenal need to kick on and that means beating Everton today.
