This Wednesday Arsenal play at Goodison Park. In the last three meeting there have seen Arsenal won two and drawn the other so the history favors us. Everton is a funny side, at the time they are well above relegation and seem to playing to win the FA Cup. After playing a weaker side against Liverpool and then drawing in their cup match you wonder if they will go all out on Wednesday just to get some sort of momentum.
One thing you notice looking at past matches is the offense really goes thru Marouane Fellaini who in most games is given way to much space in which to turn and distribute. His size can cause us some trouble when it comes to winning balls in the air. The best way to defend this is press high and don’t let him have the space. The place we can exploit them is by picking on Leighton Baines who loves to get forward and feed the ball into the middle. We need to play the long ball over the top to Theo and let his speed break them down and give us the space in the middle. Having said this we have to be strong up the middle defensively. The ability of Everton to get the ball in the box through the air has been their main goal threat all year. So our middle must fight to clear the ball and start the counter. As far as possession Everton are a team that don’t need a lot to be dangerous and given our defense has been vulnerable on the counter Arsenal must win the ball in the middle third.
So who will be key for arsenal? Obviously Alex Song is our key to defense and he must tackle and push the ball forward into space. On the offensive side the Ox and Theo must make deep runs behind the defense and I see RVP getting at least one goal from a ball in from the wing.
Everton haven’t scored three goals in a match since October and thats what I think they need to get a three points at home against an Arsenal side that will attack from the beginning!
Prediction, I say Arsenal win this 2-0 with a brace goals from Van Persie.
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