Arsenal overpower Everton as Aaron Ramsey scores his first hat-trick

Well, that didn’t take long. Arsène Wenger has had one of his more frantic January transfer windows, the doors of the Emirates revolving like the barrels on a Las Vegas slot machine. Against Everton the fruits of Wenger’s toils clicked beautifully into place, as Henrikh Mkhitaryan produced a wonderfully deft display of attacking craft, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored on his debut and the re-signed Mesut Özil played like he had just woken up surrounded by the most wonderful array of birthday presents.

Aaron Ramsey’s hat-tick was the headline act as Arsenal ended up 5-1 winners. But at times it looked like it could have been more, before Everton finally found a little fight.

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