Everton Boss, Ronald Koeman Mocks Arsene Wenger For Referee Comments
Gunners boss, Wenger felt a corner was incorrectly awarded in the lead-up to Ashley Williams' winner.
Koeman said: "I'm not surprised because it's the third [home game] in a row I won against Arsenal and three times in a row it was about the referee.
"I'm sorry Arsenal, we won through the referee," added the Dutchman.
Koeman's past two wins against Arsenal came while he was in charge of Southampton - a 4-0 victory in December 2015 and a 2-0 success 11 months earlier.
Wenger felt that a free-kick was headed behind by Everton's Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the 84th minute rather than his marker Laurent Koscielny.
After Petr Cech then pushed behind Phil Jagielka's strike, Williams headed home from the resulting corner. "It was not a corner," said Wenger.
"It was a wrong decision. I am really disappointed because Clattenberg was in a very good position to see that they headed the ball out.
"It is not the first time we were unlucky with his decisions this season but overall I don't want to talk about the referee.
"We have to look at ourselves, we lost the game. We started well and then maybe lost a bit of urgency."
Arsenal remain second in the Premier League, three points behind Chelsea, while victory for Everton ended a run of five games without a win and moved the Toffees up to seventh, four points behind fifth-placed Tottenham.
Koeman, whose side entertain Liverpool in the Merseyside derby on Monday, added: "We know if we fight for every ball and we're aggressive then you see the reaction of the crowd and it's very difficult to win at Everton away."
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