On one side, when Chelsea is struggling to even secure a position among top four, Arsenal seem to be doing a complete reversal to its last season show. Arsene Wenger side touched the peak of the year after a 2-1 win against Everton this Saturday and this is the first time they have sensed the fragrance of the top leaderboard position passing Manchester City who is close to them and can even overtook them if they could win today’s game against Manchester United. Until then, Wenger has all the reasons to celebrate his best show in many seasons for Emirate side. The joy is tripled with the fact that Gunners are behaving like winners in Champions league as well where they just defeated Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich to secure a top group position. Talking about the last game and how it rejuvenated team moral to a new high, 66-year-old Frenchman said, “At 2-1 we became a bit edgy. We gave a lot on Tuesday night and I thought it showed in the last 20 minutes. We couldn’t score the third goal and Everton had chances — it could have gone both ways.
“When you win such a big game like they did on Tuesday it shows a lot about the mentality of your team. That’s why I’m very proud of my team because they’ve shown the ability to refocus. We have a lot of questions about our strikers but Theo Walcott is outstanding and Olivier Giroud is outstanding at the moment. We’ll keep our humility and our desire to grow. We lost our first game of the season at the Emirates and no one would say we would be top of the table after that. He (Mesut Ozil) is a top class player, honestly. Rather than talking about him I would rather watch him again.”
Having been on cloud nine after last few games, Wenger added, “It’s been a great week and it was a difficult and important game today and you have to refocus. We’ve done very well against a very good Everton side. the second half we could have scored five goals but also it could have ended up 2-2, and I’m happy with my save to help us get three points.”
Regardless of the result, Everton’s performance can never be ruled out, in fact, they kept hunting for an equalizer and even got few opportunities, like Romelu Lukaku’s free header that hit the bar, but could not capitalize on any.
