Thirteen minutes. That's all it took for Everton's carefully laid game plan to unravel against Arsenal.
The Blues went into Wednesday's clash with the Gunners off the back of a chastening 7-0 defeat to league leaders Chelsea. Manager Brian Sorensen had decried his side's capitulation in the capital as "disappointing", urging his players to "work together more" and get "stuck in" defensively.
And it seemed like the Blues' had heeded the Dane's rallying cry, as they kept pace with top-three-chasing Arsenal in the opening exchanges at Walton Hall Park. For the best part of half an hour, Everton managed to contain one of the most prolific attacking outfits in Europe, limiting Jonas Eidevall's side to innocuous spells of possession on the flanks and triumphing in a number of midfield duels.
