Arsene Wenger said it “hurt” that his players’ attitude was questioned and believes Arsenal passed a “mental test” to beat Everton on Saturday.
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The Gunners crashed out of the FA Cup and Champions League in a matter of days but responded in spectacular fashion as they eased past Everton at Goodison Park.
As if that wasn’t bad enough for Wenger’s side, Tottenham look the most likely team from north London to catch Ranieri’s surprise leaders.
“It is a great time to go on the worldwide break after a win and it’s time for the players to recharge their batteries because it is the last bit of the season and it is important for us”.
That said, the fact that Everton are L5-D2-W1 through their last eight home EPL games suggests that odds of 17/10 or 12/5 on a road win or a draw can not be written off entirely and Arsenal have won seven and drawn four of the sides’ last 12 meetings.
It was an impressive display from the visitors, who had gone three league games without a win ahead of their trip to Merseyside and been dumped out of the FA Cup and Champions League in the past week.
Arsene Wenger refuses to count the Gunners out of the Premier League title race.
“I’m enjoying training and playing with him”, Iwobi told BT Sport at Goodison Park. “I don’t think we were ourselves in any part of the game and it was frustrating to see such contrasting performances”, said manager Roberto Martinez.
Welbeck made no mistake shortly after, however, when, following a wonderful passage of play, he ran on to Alexis Sanchez’s clever through ball before rounding Joel Robles and slotting home.
This season is following the usual Arsenal pattern: start promisingly, fall away in “crisis”, and then recover strongly to still take something out of the campaign.
Iwobi has featured in every competition for Arsenal since breaking into the first team this season.
“I would not consider us out [of the title race]”.
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“We had second thoughts on every action and Arsenal were better than us in every aspect”.
