Everton vs West Ham LIVE: Premier League result and final score after Neal Maupay goal breaks deadlock
Everton 1-0 West Ham: The striker’s first goal for the club earned Frank Lampard’s side their first win of the season while the Hammers stayed in the bottom three
Everton claimed their first win of the Premier League season as Neal Maupay’s first goal for the club was enough to defeat West Ham, who remain in the bottom three.
In a game that badly needed a goal, Maupay produced an excellent finish on the turn to give Frank Lampard’s side lift off at Goodison Park.
West Ham only woke up after going behind as substitute Said Benrahma hit the post and fellow replacement Maxwel Cornet tested Everton goalkeeper Asmir Begovic.
Cornet then had a chance to equalise late on after rounding Begovic but he could not convert from a tight angle as West Ham’s struggles in the Premier League continued.
The Hammers have won only one of their opening seven Premier League games under David Moyes, scoring just three goals, while Everton rise to 13th ahead of the international break.
Brentford 0-0 Arsenal
12 mins: Ben Mee gets the Brentford crowd going with a lunging, sliding tackle on Fabio Vieira. The Portuguese isn’t happy about the power that Mee took him down with but Mee won the ball and knocks it out of play.
Solid defending and the Brentford fans enjoyed it.
Brentford 0-0 Arsenal
9 mins: Ben White flicks the ball over to the left side of the pitch where Bryan Mbeumo tries to intercept the pass. The ball comes loose and gets poked up to Gabriel Martinelli on the wing.
He cuts inside and chips a cross into the middle hoping to pick out Gabriel Jesus but Ben Mee is there to boot it clear for the Bees.
Brentford 0-0 Arsenal
6 mins: Close! Brentford are spraying the ball out wide and looking to cross it into their front two strikers. Rico Henry brings down a diagonal ball over to the left wing then curls a cross into the far side of the box.
Bryan Mbeumo wins the header bu can’t generate much power and nods it straight to Aaron Ramsdale.
Brentford 0-0 Arsenal
3 mins: Chance! Gabriel Martinelli should score!
He starts the move with a pass back to William Saliba who drives up to the box and sends the ball back to Martinelli. His next touch sends the ball into the left side of the area where Granit Xhaka is in bags of space.
Xhaka controls the ball and draws in the nearest defender before gifting it back to Martinelli who’s moved into the penalty area.
Martinelli wants to shoot but slips at the vital moment and scuffs his effort softly to David Raya.
Kick off: Brentford 0-0 Arsenal
Gabriel Jesus gets the match started and Arsenal boot the ball long. It’s won in the air and nodded back to Jesus who is quickly closed down and has to pass the ball backwards.
Brentford vs Arsenal
Here come the teams! There’ll be a minute’s silence for the Queen before the game gets underway.
Mikel Arteta and Thomas Frank lead the players out onto the pitch carrying floral wreaths that they lay down in the centre circle.
Pre-match thoughts of Mikel Arteta
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta spoke to Sky Sports before kick off and explained why Zinchenko and Odegaard were excluding from today’s squad saying: “Oleksandr Zinchenko and Martin Odegaard are both injured and not available for the game. I don’t know [how long they are out for], there are two different things but we don’t know yet.
“A great learning day last season, when you have tough and difficult moments in life, it is how you take the most out of it and learn to go onto the next one.
“We have to show it on the pitch, we have prepared in the best possible way and we want to put right what happened last season.
“We want to be top of the table again, in order to do that we have to win here, perform and compete at the highest level.”
Arsenal’s key man?
Prior to the weekend, Gabriel Jesus had more touches in the opposition box (66), attempted more dribbles (34) and won more fouls (21) than any other player in the Premier League this season.
Super sub
Yoane Wissa has netted five Premier League goals as a substitute since the start of last season, more than any other player.
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