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 still flying high
Victory would take the Gunners to 60 points, their joint-highest total after 25 Premier League fixtures, matching their record in 2003/04 and 2007/08.
Arsenal vs Everton
Everton have never won a Premier League game away to the side starting the day top of the table, drawing five and losing 19 such matches.
The Toffees’ last league victory away to the top-flight leaders was a 2-1 win at Wimbledon in September 1986.
Arsenal vs Everton
Arsenal have just one win from their last four home league games - two draws, one loss - after winning each of the previous 10.
And, the north London side have kept only two clean sheets in their last 16 top-flight matches at the Emirates.
Sean Dyche working to change Everton’s mentality heading into away matches
Sean Dyche is working to change Everton’s mentality going into away games with the aim of improving a dismal record on the road so far this season.
Everton head to Arsenal on Wednesday night as clear second favourites against the Premier League leaders, having not won an away league match since beating Southampton 2-1 on October 1.
The Emirates is perhaps not the most likely place to end that run, but with a trip to Nottingham Forest to follow on Sunday, Dyche knows the importance of changing Everton’s fortunes away from Goodison Park.
Sean Dyche working to change Everton’s mentality heading into away matches
Everton head to Arsenal on Wednesday night as clear second favourites against the Premier League leaders.
Arteta on Arsenal’s best XI
Mikel Arteta says he doesn’t know whether Arsenal have a best XI and that the team is constantly changing and evolving as players get injured or come into great from.
“We assess that situation every single day.” said the Gunners’ boss, “The fact [is] we have options now - we have players coming back from injury giving us alternatives, which is going to be crucial.
“Players can’t maintain the same level for 10 months - it’s just impossible. We need to change and we have to generate alternatives and be more unpredictable for opponents sometimes as well. We have those options now.”
Arsenal vs Everton team changes
Mikel Arteta names the same Arsenal starting XI that defeated Leicester City 1-0 last time out. Leandro Trossard keeps his place in the top line with Eddie Nketiah, Emile Smith Rowe and Thomas Partey settling for spots on the bench.
Sean Dyche meanwhile switched out Conor Coady for Michael Keane in the only change to the Everton starting XI. Coady starts on the bench.
Arsenal vs Everton line-ups
Arsenal XI: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Odegaard, Jorginho, Xhaka, Saka, Trossard, Martinelli
Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Tarkowski, Mykolenko, Gueye, Iwobi, Doucoure, Onana, McNeil, Maupay
Dyche on scoring more goals
Everton boss, Sean Dyche, hopes to improve his team’s goal scoring stats and he attempts to keep the Toffees in the Premier League this season.
The manager explained that he has been impressed with the team’s performances since taking over but that they need to score more in order to win games.
“It’s simple when we talk about [finding more goals] but it’s not easy to deliver,” said Dyche. “The mentality of the players has been good. We’ve got to ask questions, create different ways of affecting games and that’s what we’re looking to do but, while we’re doing that, not lose sight of the fact that the defensive shape has to still be good.
“The Premier League is unforgiving at both ends of the pitch and we’ve shown good signs of the side being tighter and more structured in its defending.
“Now it’s [about] how you can open the door when you’re attacking and, certainly, I think if you take the goals out of the game on Saturday and looking at winning two of the past three coming into it, I think we maybe even delivered a more powerful performance.
“That’s how the big, clinical moments count. That’s how important they are to change a performance and people’s view of it, because Saturday was a good performance all-round but we didn’t score the goals and we let two soft ones in. We’ve got to change that, obviously.”
Arteta on Everton
Arsenal boss, Mikel Arteta, was asked whether he wanted to get some revenge on Everton after the Merseryside clubs defeated the Gunners at Goodison Park last month.
“It’s a case of doing things better than we did when we played them a few weeks ago and earning the right to win the game.” he replied during his pre-match media duties, “Hopefully tomorrow we will play much better than we did that day.
“It’s like with any opponent. We showed them what they do, what they are about, what we expect to do to try to beat them and nothing different.
“We have to improve.”
Should Arsenal vs Everton be on TV tonight? Premier League broadcast rules explained
It is an odd quirk of the Premier League’s TV rights that tonight’s important game between leaders Arsenal and relegation-threatened Everton will not be shown live in the UK, but will be broadcast in Denmark, the Dominican Republic and Djibouti.
Pick any country or territory in the world: the Premier League lists 39 separate international TV deals on its website which cover almost every part of the globe.
But fans at home have long faced limits. Currently only 200 of the Premier League’s 380 games per season are allowed to be shown live in the UK: Sky Sports owns the rights to 128 of those, BT Sport shows 52, and Amazon broadcasts the other 20. The rest are mostly hidden behind the Saturday ‘blackout’ – a law which dates back to the 1960s preventing football from being shown on UK TV between 2:45pm and 5:15pm, in an effort to protect the attendances of lower league clubs.
Should Arsenal vs Everton be on TV tonight? Premier League broadcast rules explained
Arsenal-Everton was originally due to be played in September but the death of Queen Elizabeth II led that weekend’s fixtures to be postponed
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