Arsenal vs Everton LIVE score: Premier League result and reaction as Gabriel Martinelli adds fourth goal
Arsenal 4-0 Everton: The Gunners extended their lead atop the Premier League with a crushing win
Arsenal’s young guns were once again firing on all cylinders as Bukayo Saka’s strike and Gabriel Martinelli’s brace helped down Everton to send Mikel Arteta’s side five points clear at the Premier League summit.
No other players under the age of 22 have scored more than five Premier League goals this season but both Saka and Martinelli reached double-figures with first-half strikes in a comfortable 4-0 victory.
Captain Martin Odegaard added a third before Martinelli tapped in to put the gloss on the win and leave Arsenal in a strong position as they pursue a first title in 19 years.
This was Arsenal’s game in hand, the original match called off following the death of the Queen, and they went into the contest having lost to the struggling Toffees last month. That was Sean Dyche’s first game in charge of Everton and things appeared to be on the up, but this loss leaves the visitors inside the relegation zone.
Relive all the action as Arsenal host Everton at the Emirates Stadium:
Arsenal 0-0 Everton
6 mins: Arsenal’s corner routine sees them knock the ball short and pass it across to Jorginho who guides a side-footed shot just wide of the far post!
Arsenal are growing nicely into this game.
Arsenal 0-0 Everton
3 mins: Alex Iwobi drives down the right wing for Everton but loses the ball on the edge of the Arsenal box when he’s shut out by Oleksandr Zinchenko.
Zinchenko gives it to Granit Xhaka who transition Arsenal into attack with a threaded pass into midfield. Bukayo Saka receives the ball on the righ hand channel.
He looks to take on Vitaliy Mykolenko but Dwight McNeil sprints back to help out and Everton turn the ball behind for a corner.
Kick off: Arsenal 0-0 Everton
Everton get the match underway at the Emirates Stadium. Abdoulaye Doucoure sends the ball to Michael Kean who bombs a forward ball over to the right wing.
Amadou Onana and Gabriel both leap towards the aerial ball and the Everton midfielder takes a knock to the face from Gabriel’s stray arm.
Arsenal vs Everton
Here come the players.
Martin Odegaard and Seamus Coleman lead out their respective teams. Arsenal will move five points clear of Manchester City if they defeat Everton tonight.
The Toffees were triumphant when they met the Gunners at Goodison Park, can they repeat that result at the Emirates too?
Arsenal vs Everton
Sean Dyche lost his first nine Premier League games as a manager against Arsenal but has been beaten in only one of his last six against them (W2, D3).
Dyche’s teams have never scored more than once in his 15 meetings with the Gunners, netting just seven in total.
Arsenal vs Everton
Gabriel Martinelli is vying to score in three consecutive Premier League appearances within a single season for the first time.
Martinelli is one shy of 10 Premier League goals, and could become the third Brazilian to reach double figures in a single campaign while aged 21 or under, emulating Gabriel Jesus in 2017/18 and Richarlison in 2018/19.
Mikel Arteta empathises with Graham Potter amid current struggles
Mikel Arteta says he empathises with Graham Potter as he battles to save his job at Stamford Bridge – warning the Chelsea head coach not to let negativity “destroy his life”.
The Blues sit 10th in the Premier League after losing to Tottenham on Sunday and are now 26 points adrift of Arteta’s table-topping Arsenal.
Potter has won just nine of the 26 games he has managed across all competitions since replacing Thomas Tuchel in September. The former Brighton boss revealed ahead of the Spurs defeat that he and his children has received death threats.
Mikel Arteta empathises with Graham Potter amid current struggles
Potter has won just nine of the 26 games he has managed across all competitions since replacing Thomas Tuchel in September.
Arsenal vs Everton
Mikel Arteta has lost four Premier League matches as a manager against Everton - the only side against whom he has a worse record is Manchester City (six defeats).
Arsenal vs Everton
Everton’s 2-1 victory at Southampton is their only win in their previous 13 Premier League away fixtures (five draws, seven defeats).
They have netted just once in seven top-flight away games since the win at St Mary’s - Demarai Gray’s strike in the 1-1 draw at Manchester City on 31st December.
Sean Dyche must learn a new trick to solve an old Everton problem
It was in the build-up to a game against Arsenal when Sean Dyche showed Dominic Calvert-Lewin a reel of his goals. He urged the striker to get in the box, between the width of the posts and on the end of crosses. Calvert-Lewin responded with five attempts before half-time.
Not Wednesday’s game against Arsenal, admittedly. Calvert-Lewin is out injured, as he has been for three-quarters of Dyche’s reign and much of Frank Lampard’s. There is no timescale for his return which, given his fitness record since scoring 21 goals for Carlo Ancelotti in 2020/21, may be both depressing and sensible. Predictions of his return can appear optimistic amid seemingly endless absences.
Take out Calvert-Lewin and Everton go into the rematch of Dyche’s debut as the lowest scorers in the Premier League and with the weakest available strike force. They are the only team without a player with at least four league goals this season and one of their pair on three, Anthony Gordon, is now on Newcastle’s books. Specialist strikers have delivered just two. Both goals under Dyche have come from defenders: a freakishly brilliant effort from Seamus Coleman and a set-piece header from James Tarkowski.
Dyche must learn a new trick to solve an old Everton problem
Dominic Calvert-Lewin will again be absent as Everton face Arsenal in the Premier League
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