Everton 1-0 Arsenal – 18/03/07 – (Barclays Premiership) 19 March, 2007

How the fuck did we lose that? I tell you what we should’ve lost at Villa and won at Everton so I suppose it’s levelled itself out. It was a very quick start to the game, whenever the ball was won heads got down and there were quite a few decent attacks in the opening of the game.

We had Baptista and Aliadiere up front who were working well with the midfield doing some good passing moves. Diaby was superb again in my opinion; worked his socks off and did a brilliant job. Gallas also had a good game but his partner at the back Gilberto was having a shocker. Nearly gifted a goal to Andy Johnson but Lehmann recovered well diving and push the ball away from Johnson.

We were having more attacks than Everton but theirs looked more dangerous than ours. Every time they got forward into our half they looked confident and we looked shaky. Going forward we weren’t bad, but we lacked just that very final quality again.

I was very surprised that it was still 0-0 at half time; I expected us to be winning but in reality the home side could’ve been too. They’d hit the woodwork, had a decent penalty shout and tested Lehmann.

I was pretty confident that we’d win this one, the goal hadn’t come yet but I was certain it was on its way. However as the clock ticked by with the scores level I began to doubt it. We were coming to close to scoring, Aliadiere got on the end of a couple of runs but couldn’t quite steer the ball in.

When the board was put up for three minutes of extra time I thought to myself ‘Oh bollocks Arsenal you should have won this one, we’ll never catch up with Chelsea not taking three points at fucking Goodison Park. We’ll I suppose the one point will be okay oh hang on there a bit of dang…shit.’ Everton have to go and score don’t they. The cross was whipped in and there was a bit of a goalmouth scramble. In the end the ball laid off for Andy Johnson about 5 yards out and he just smashed it into the back of the net. A few players tried to throw their bodies in the way but it went straight through. Lehmann just missed it but he would’ve needed a very strong hand behind it to have stopped it from going in.

It was a crappy game to lose but in the end after I’d calmed down I thought it doesn’t really matter any more because we’re not exactly in the title race or anything. 3rd and 4th will be closely contested but at the end of the day there’s really not much difference between them. However I think we’ll finish above Liverpool anyway. We’ve got to play them next in two weeks time, next week is internationals. Woohoo…look forward to another week of fuck all news. See ya.