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Hull City (a) – Giroud & Walcott Score The Goals While Elneny & Iwobi Continue To Impress

There were some good individual performances on the night. The more I see of Elneny, the more I like him. Doesn't look to do anything flashy or highlight worthy, just makes good decisions from start to finish. Because of this, he rarely loses the ball, when you combine that with someone who works so hard on the pitch you cannot help but feel excited about his future role in the team. Alex Iwobi continues to look the part, gliding across the pitch, knitting everything together with his early and accurate passing

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes

Liverpool (a) – Heart Symbols to Joel, Rambo vs Santi & Pressing Issues

Joel Campbell once more. His pass to Aaron Ramsey for the first equaliser was beautiful. Mesut Özil better check himself before Campbell assists wrecks himself, or something. I have a little bit obsession for chipped goals and reverse through passes, Campbell is satisfying the latter obsession. He tried it again for Giroud's second goal and it was Ramsey once again making that run. Wonder if we will see some more of that during this season. From 78th choice on the flank for Arsenal, Joel may have moved to number 2 on current form. All the credit should go to him for his desire and commitment to work himself into this position, then of course his quality which is becoming clearer and clearer as the weeks roll by

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes

Manchester City (h) – Has Walcott been working on his shooting at London Colny?

Walcott's goal moments later was a thing of absolute beauty. It's not the first time that he has taken a pass intended for someone else and then gone on to score. He did the same in our home victory last season to Aston Villa. Last weekend against Aston Villa his whipped finish into the far corner was wrongly disallowed, on Monday night he did it again so I wonder if he has been working on it behind the scenes at London Colny. At the start of the season when he was given his chance as a central striker many of his shots were very tame often quite powder-puff. I remember screaming out for a whipped effort rather than a soft curling shot that was easy to save.

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes

Aston Villa (a) – A Good Weekend For Gunners See Arsenal Go Top

Very happy for Oliver Giroud to continue his scoring record, this time from the spot. Although can I be a little churlish about the kick not quite finding the corner. Had Brad Guzan guessed the right way then the outcome may have been different. Unnecessary moaning? Yeah probably, apologies. So 50 Premier league goals for Giroud then? Not to be sniffed at, his scoring record has been top bracket this season

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes

AV Post Match Podcast – EP62: Olympiacos (a) – Giroud and Campbell’s Hot Hands

In today's Arsenal Vision Post Match Podcast: Paul (@PoznanInMyPants) and Elliot (@YankeeGunner) discuss the excellent and professional 3-0 away victory against Greek Champions Olympiacos. Paul talks about hot hands while Elliot asks whether or not Joel Campbell is the new Francis Coquelin. All that and much more in this weeks Arsenal Vision Podcast

AV Post Match Podcast – EP200: AC Milan (h) – John’s Fainting Couch

Swansea (a) – Bellerin had no right, Özil & Three points

Just after half time Giroud nodded us ahead after yet another Mesut Özil assist from the corner kick. Crazily enough it was Özil's first set piece assist of the season. This is because Santi Cazorla has been taking most of the dead balls. I remember when Cesc Fabregas was getting all kinds of praise for his assist numbers at this stage last season, most of those were from set pieces, you would imagine that Özil would have even more to his name if he was number one taker of set pieces

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes

Everton (h) “I can’t think of a player I like watching more when he plays like this” – Q&A

We took quite some time to get our engines running, and the opening exchanges were not as fluent as I am accustomed to see. We can certainly attribute the slowness of our start to the fact that most of our players played against Bayern on Tuesday, however the soggy pitch slowing our play down didn't help matters. Both our goals came from aerial balls at a period where we were unable to make much headway as the ball kept getting stuck on the pitch.
In the second half we gave a polished performance with more zip, and while Everton had many opportunities with the ball, I felt we were in the driving seat all game long

Chelsea (h) “Theo becoming the player nobody thought he’d become” – Q&A

Everton (h) – Hot Giroud strikes again, Özil shines (again)

Everton had been strong on the break this season and it was a counter attack that presented the visitors with the equaliser. Oxlade-Chamberlain's shot was blocked just outside the Everton box. Deulofeu burst forward and found Barkley in space, it looked as if Gabriel and Ox had him covered until he wriggled past Ox and hit a left footed shot which deflected off the boot of the Brazilian and wrong footed Cech in the Arsenal goal. It was from a similar range to where

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes

Bayern Munich (h) – Tactical Arsène Inspires Famous Victory

I need to watch it again to work out exactly when this happened but about half way through the half until half time we cut Bayern in ribbons on the break with great passing between the lines from Cazorla and the speed of Alexis and Walcott. We really had the chance to Manchester United them the way we did the red devils only a few weeks ago but a combination of Manuel Neuer and powder puff Theo Walcott finishing meant we could not get the needed goals. That Theo header? Not his strength but you gotta be putting that away fella, hopefully some work on the training ground and a few Ian Wright videos (do they still do videos?) and he will get there.

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes