With Vivianne Miedema and Beth Mead recovering from injury, Eidevall was asked if confidence without them was lower?
But he replied: “For me, no, when I see the quality we have. I don’t think there is any reason to speak like that.
“Of course we have to do better with our goalscoring opportunities but that is football sometimes, it is all about small details.
“I was honest and transparent that I felt we needed another forward in this window but I was also very honest and transparent about the fact that I believe in these players that we have.
“We have a lot of quality. With the schedule in Spring I felt we would be better off with another body. But we are not there yet, that is not a problem now.
“All our forward options were ready to play today so we have no excuses there, we have enough quality to produce more with these opportunities.”
On why Arsenal couldn’t convert against the east London side, he added: “We scored nine against Leeds, we scored three against Villa, I can’t see a pattern. If you want to draw conclusions from one game it’s too small a sample size, there is too much noise in a 90-minute game.
“If I thought it was a trend I would be really worried but let’s be very honest, we played West Ham, Leeds, Villa, Chelsea and Zurich, I think we scored 22 goals in those five games with these forwards.
“So I am not going to stand here and say we have a problem scoring goals when we have 22 in the last five games.”
Arsenal have now failed to score from open play against West Ham and Chelsea and when asked about that, Eidevall reacted in a shocked manner.
“I don’t like the question so much because it implies we would do something different,” he said.
“Of course we want to score with every opportunity but we don’t have robots, nobody does. There is a human element, there are small details on whether you put an opportunity away or not.
“My belief in these players doesn’t change because we didn’t score against West Ham.
“The easiest thing you can do in football is to be fooled by the result and mix the result and the performance.
“We are disappointed with the result but not with the performance. I know some people will never understand this and will always say ‘because you didn’t get the result you surely must have had a bad performance?’
“I don’t agree with that and when you want to see progress, I know if these players get the same opportunities in the next game, they will put them away. I am 100 per cent confident of that.”
On whether the competitive nature of the league means the draw will not be fatal in Arsenal’s title challenge, he said: “I’m more concerned with the expiration date on the milk in my fridge than what happens in the other games at the moment.
“It’s a competitive league but today it is a very dominant display from us, West Ham are very happy with the point.
“If you play this game 100 times with the same goal scoring opportunities, you are going to see a lot of Arsenal wins. I know many people won’t agree with that but that’s how I see it.”
After a Continental Tyres League Cup semi-final with Manchester City in midweek, Arsenal visit their rivals in the WSL on Saturday (12.30pm).
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