What an amazing finish. Super Max Dowman.

Shout-out to Martinelli for everything he did for that final goal.

Why did I start tearing up watching Max score 😭

Must be protected at all costs

A lot of talk about Gyokeres scoring, and especially about Super Max's amazing performance. And rightly so. And a bit of talk about the probably not given in the first half as well.

But the fact that Arteta brought Max on in a very tense match that was sitting on a razor's edge is interesting in itself. I didn't think the Mikel of past seasons (and even earlier this season) wouldn't have done that. He'd have been too cautious. I feel like this is an attitude change that isn't really being talked about - Arteta trusting his young players even more and being willing to take a big gamble.

I finished catching up on our game, and then switched to the end of WHU- MCI.

OH MY!!!!!

I only caught the last 15minutes, but it was worth every second :)

GOOD MORNING WHAT DO YOU MEAN DOWMAN SCORED HOLY SHIT

You could see the moment Martinelli hits the turbo button, insane insane run

Youngest in the history of PL, only one in the land

My brother said this is revenge for Rooney

Same. Part of it was just the stress of coming so close to fucking it all up. I think if we'd been comfortably ahead I wouldn't have been quite as emotional. But, I was so overwhelmed by the stress of that nail biter.

That's a clever strategy to avoid a heart attack.

Not wrong, haha

True, but I wasn't thrilled with the other subs. When I saw Ben White warming up on the touch line I was encouraged. When he put on Mosquera instead I was sad. Mosquera is an even more defensive fullback than Timber. It wasn't what I thought we needed while we were struggling to break through their defensive block. I justified it to myself that maybe he was doing that to free up Calafiori on the other side. But, then he took up Calafiori and put on another defensive fullback in Hincapie.

In the end, maybe Zubimendi for Dowman was the attacking change, and the other changes were to balance out attack vs. defense. Still.... I really think we're missing something by not using Ben White, at least sometimes. If he's warming up, surely he's fit enough to play the final 30 minutes, isn't he?

Yeah those fullback subs were odd.

Maybe Mikel wanted to stretch the pitch out length-wise? Like, lure Everton's wingers deeper into the final third so they weren't double-marking Saka and Noni (it whoever we played on our wings)? Our wingers could also take advantage of pockets left between their wingers and fullbacks. Seems like an unnecessarily risky move though.