Wenger was full of praise for his team saying:
"The most important qualities we showed at Everton were discipline, commitment, togetherness, desire and a 100 per cent focus for 90 minutes. That is what got us the points."The points were definitely earned by 'Fab' today but not the normal one, not the Fab that scored our second and ultimately winning goal. Lukasz Fabianski put in a fantastic performance at Goodison and produced a number of top saves while the score was 2 - 0. The 25 year old keeper had another faultless performance and was definitely a core reason for our success, not only against Everton but since he came in to the side after Almunia's 'injury'. What's more impressive is hat during that spell when he made his only error that cost us points he came back and earned us wins in the next two, That is the sign of a world class keeper in the making.
Another player that has improved his reputation although somewhat more quietly was Denilson. His introduction at half time was a beautiful and clever move from Arsene Wenger, he replaced Jack Wilshere who in himself is a great player but he likes to have the ball at his feet, make runs, take people on and so on, Denilson on the other hand receives the ball, takes a touch, looks up and passes to the free man and that sort of quick link play was what was needed against a tough Everton team that enjoyed closing us down very quickly. A lot of fans have criticised Denilson for always passing sideways, not being attacking enough or just not being good enough. Hopefully more appearances like this can slowly keep changing the minds of those fans. Denilson's introduction also allowed Fabregas to concentrate more on the attacking side of his game, In the first half you could often see him step back while Alex Song made a forward charge but in the second half it was Denilson and Song who shared the responsibilities of defensive cover allowing Cesc to run forward just like he did when he scored his goal.
I was disappointed not to see Walcott involved, he is as far as we know fully fit and before his two game absence he was in form so his lack of involvement was surprising. The only assumption I can make is that Wenger doesn't trust Theo defensively and if that is the case, we may not see that much of him away from home.
I haven't seen many of the post game interviews so all I can give you is a tweet by Cesc Fabregas after the game he took the time to thank the fans, he tweeted "Great victory. All the lads were fantastic. Great support once again by the away fans. Keep it up Gunners!"
All in all This game provided the perfect build up for the Spurs game but of course we need to get through the internationals injury free first - I wonder what odds we'd get for RVP getting injured whilst playing for Holland?
Until then, Go forth and enjoy your week in the knowledge that we are potentially one win away from being top of the Premier League.
Short but sweet today so until next time,
Goonerfish
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