Malcolm Sterling is a life-long Gooner with an appreciation for defensive midfielders and "seeing games out". Favourite players include Emmanuel Petit, Gilberto and Michael Thomas. Hates social media more than he hates "that poxy radio clown" but loves horses more than Michael Owen and enjoys a football flutter. Malcolm misses Highbury more than he can express despite only managing to visit fewer times than he's been to the Emirates.
Arsenal's professional, if not entirely convincing, win over Everton at the weekend took them within 4 points of second place Manchester City who went down to Liverpool earlier in the day.
At one point Arsenal's future as a top four club looked in real jeopardy but now we are looking at 2nd as a real possibility. Is that the limit for Arsenal though?
Arsenal bounced back from the miserable Champions League defeat at the hands of Monaco to register a 2-0 win over Everton. At this stage last season, this was a match between two teams chasing a top four place. Despite signing several players like Romelu Lukaku on a permanent basis Everton have struggled this season.
Mesut Özil was labelled a flop by many last year whilst Philippe Coutinho has just won back-to-back player of the month awards at Liverpool and is being hailed as one of the Premier League's best players this season.
Opta-powered fantasy football game www.oulala.com decided to look closely at both players to see if Özil is deserving of the flop tag and whether Coutinho is really as good as everyone says he is. The stats tell follow a different narrative...
