Everton 0-1 Arsenal LIVE RESULT: Gunners take the spoils at Goodison courtesy of Trossard’s emphatic finish – reaction
ARSENAL have beaten Everton at Goodison Park for the first time since 2017.
Leandro Trossard's emphatic finish gave the Gunners the lead in the second half after fine work from Bukayo Saka.
Arsenal held on to claim the spoils despite late pressure from the hosts.
- Match result: Everton 0-1 Arsenal
- Everton XI: Pickford, Young, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Onana, Doucoure, Gueye, Danjuma, Beto, McNeil.
- Arsenal XI: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Rice, Odegaard, Vieira, Saka, Martinelli, Nketiah.
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Goodbye from Goodison Park
And we've no room for any additional time here either so it's so long from Merseyside where Arsenal have won again, Everton have lost again and the match officials and the rule makers are in the spotlight again.
Be honest, after the international break, this was exactly the drama, frustration and controversy that you were waiting for.
Thanks for joining us, and goodnight.
26 seconds to go (and take a corner)
Much has been made of the 26 seconds that Arsenal took to take the corner that produced their winning goal.
Seen as clever play by many, waiting for the right moment to unlock an otherwise robust Everton defence, questions have arisen around the amount of stoppage time added on by the officials at 90 minutes.
Those queries appear particularly poignant given Paul Heckingbottom's complaints yesterday that the referee told his Sheffield United players that they would have to play a goalkick long rather than taking longer to draw out the opposition.
Toffees left in sticky situation
Everton's tally of one point is their joint-worst return from the opening 5 games of a Premier League season along with 1994-95 - although they went on to finish 15th in that campaign.
The Toffees have also lost each of their first three home league games for only the fourth time in their history - and it is only the second time they have done it without scoring.
Credit: @EFC_Statto Twitter
Trossard happy to help
Leandro Trossard revealed he was delighted to play an important from the bench this afternoon with an impact that highlights the Gunners' strength in depth.
The Belgian was a 24th minute substitute for the injured Gabriel Martinelli, but put the disappointment of starting on the bench behind him to net the only goal of the game by finishing off an excellent move from a corner.
It’s always nice to help your team and especially if you can score the winning goal. It was a great action, I called to Bukayo Saka and he saw me with a perfect lay-off and I had to hit it straight with my left. It goes in perfectly. I’m very happy.
Leandro Trossard
Keeping it clean on the road
Another Arsenal away win, and another clean sheet on the road.
It means that the Gunners have now kept out their hosts in 12 of their 21 away games since the start of last season.
And today they did it with a new goalkeeper to boot.
Credit: @optajoe Twitter Gunners sub sinks Everton
Arsenal fans were cursing their luck when Gabriel Martinelli went off injured in the first half, shortly after having a goal disallowed for offside.
But his replacement Leandro Trossard took his chance to shine, scoring a sumptuous winner in the second half.
It means that an Gunners substitute has scored in each of the last three Premier League games, the first time that the Londoners have done that since December 2021.
No wonder Mikel Arteta looks so delighted.
Match stats from Goodison Park
Arsenal finally made their abundance of corners count, slicing Everton open with another short one to bag the only goal of the game.
Full time - Everton 0-1 Arsenal
The final whistle goes and there are barely enough Everton supporters left in the ground to signal their latest disappointment.
Instead it is the travelling Arsenal fans that can be heard celebrating, and they're soon joined in that corner of Goodison Park by their players to acknowledge three hard fought points.
The only goal of the game was scored brilliantly by Leandro Trossard midway through the second half, and from that point onwards the result was never in doubt.
The Gunners leave the blue half of Merseyside with a win for the first time since the days of Arsene Wenger, and move level on points with Tottenham ahead of next week's North London derby.
For Everton, however, it's another defeat and leaves them with just a solitary point from the opening five games. Tough times.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
90+2. The home fans are flocking for the exits.
They have lost faith in this Everton side's ability to find a way to make them happy.
Change is desperately needed at Goodison Park.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
90. The board goes up to show four minutes of additional time, and Everton manager Sean Dyche is not pleased.
He's got a point too considering all the substitutions and stoppages.
There were eight minutes at the Vitality Stadium earlier where there had been far less interruption.
Make it make sense.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
89. For the first time since his introduction, Calvert-Lewin finds some room inside the area but is only able to direct a cross-shot across the six-yard box.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal - Everton double substitution
87. A last throw of the Dyche?
The Everton manager unleashes Nathan Patterson and teenage forward Youssef Chermiti too.
Ashley Young and Dwight McNeil make way.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
85. Everton really need their supporters to lift them now.
The only problem is those long-suffering fans really need their team to do something for them to cheer.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
83. Kai Havertz goes looking for Bukayo Saka at the back stick, but almost inadvertently finds the top corner with a cross.
Let's face it, the German needs a morale-boosting goal, and would take it any way that it came.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
81. Inside the final ten minutes now.
As it stands, Arsenal are moving level on points with Tottenham inside the top four while Everton will remain in the bottom three.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal - Everton substitution
80. A change for the Toffees.
Can the guile of James Garner help Everton find an equaliser? The midfielder is on for Abdoulaye Doucoure.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal - Arsenal double substitution
79. Mikel Arteta adds some height to his team for the closing stages with the introduction of Takehiro Tomiyasu and Kai Havertz.
Off go Oleksandr Zinchenko and Fabio Vieira.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
77. Arsenal almost put this one to bed.
With Everton's midfield all over the place, Trossard pushes a pass through for Odegaard to bear down on goal.
His strike is well-saved from Pickford, and Vieira's follow-up is brilliantly blocked by Mykolenko.
The Everton goalkeeper and his defence still believe.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
75. Back up the other end, and even Idrissa Gueye is going for goal now.
To the surprise of no-one inside Goodison, it flies away into the stand.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
73. There's more space for Arsenal now, and they so nearly pick off Everton for a second on the break.
A cross to the far post looks set for Odegaard to strike until Vieira takes it off the toe of his teammate with a far from convincing effort.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
71. Everton need to change their ways now if they are to rescue something here, and immediately Pickford goes route one.
It nearly pays off too with Mykolenko - eventually after a slight miscontrol - getting on the end of the punt to strike at goal.
Gabriel does his job, however, getting across to block behind.
Everton 0-1 Arsenal
69. Finally we have a goal, and it was well worth the wait!
Another Arsenal corner played short appeared to have fizzled out, but the visitors kept the ball moving and eventually Bukayo Saka was played into the byline.
The England star kept his cool and dragged it back for Leandro Trossard, who met the pass perfectly first time to powerfully sidefoot across goal and in off the far post.
The Gunners lead at Goodison!
Brilliant!
Everton 0-0 Arsenal
67. Arsenal win their seventh corner of the game.
Everton, meanwhile, are still awaiting their first.
Mind you, the Gunners haven't really threatened from dead ball situations yet, and once again this one is mopped up by Tarkowski and co.
Everton 0-0 Arsenal - Everton and Arsenal substitutions
64. It's 9 for 14 on both sides as Calvert-Lewin replaces Beto and Jesus comes on for Nketiah.
Two oddly reassuring substitutions for us in the OCD community.
