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.

Liverpool could be one of the struggling league sides this season and its new boss Jurgen Klopp is also feeling the pressure of being at the top of highly demotivated side hence he is not exaggeratedly reacting after his first game mentoring the Anfield side. Reds could not break its jinx in the Tottenham as well and game ended with 0-0 score on the board, however, the good thing about the game is Liverpool players performed quite confidently throughout the match and they did never look like someone passing through drought of victories this English topflight. Divock Origi, who was substituted in place of injured Daniel Sturridge, was the first one to explore a goal hitting opportunity in the first ten minutes itself but Tottenham defense was firmed enough to neutralize the shot and thereafter it was just a matter of edging psychologically over each other and no one could triumph that mind game. Talking about the game and how his side performed in the debut English game, 48-year-old German said in an interview, “It was an open game, we had our chances, they had theirs which were obviously better, but if we can play better football we will be stronger next time.

“We were a little but nervous when we had the ball and the pace was frantic. We need to improve but after three days I’m happy, I’m completely satisfied with a 0-0 draw. It was a good first step and I can work with the performance. The first 20 minutes of the game I didn’t have much influence on the game because the crowd were loud and the players started well. But when the players needed some encouragement I was there, but I was not unhappy. A draw is not by dream result, but it is okay.”

The new Anfield boss is taking the first game as the learning platform for himself where he could study crucial things to succeed in the league soccer which is undoubtedly the toughest to survive in. Generally, Germans bosses are not famous to have been successful on English duty and Klopp wants to break this theory by achieving an impressing success in his first English season, he added, “It was a very important game, because we can now work with this and show the players what was good and what was not so good and we can take the next step.”