Everton 0-1 Arsenal: Toffees suffer fourth loss in opening five Premier League games

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Will Rooney reports from Goodison Park.

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00:00 Well, full-time Erik Hudson-Parker finished Everton 0, Arsenal 1.

00:04 Everton suffer a fourth Premier League defeat in their opening five games,

00:08 which leaves them in the relegation zone at this formative stage of the campaign.

00:12 And yeah, Everton probably deserve to get beat.

00:16 I mean, they showed some defensive resilience, to be fair to them,

00:20 throughout the game, but ultimately they didn't have enough going forward,

00:23 so they barely tested the Arsenal goalkeeper, David Breyer.

00:26 Four shots in total, one on target, and that was a real weak effort as well

00:30 from Idrissa Ghana getting the first half to say.

00:33 Everton were given a reprieve in the 19th minute,

00:37 because Gabriel Martinelli opened the scoring,

00:40 really poor from Amadou Nanna, he appealed for offside, completely stopped.

00:45 Arsenal won the ball and went and got to Martinelli on the left,

00:49 and he put it past Jordan Pickford.

00:51 Luckily enough, there was a VAR check, and Eddie Nketiah in the build-up

00:55 was deemed to have been offside, so luckily Everton were given a reprieve.

01:00 But it didn't create too much in the first half.

01:03 Zappori has a penalty shot, which Sean Dyches in his post-match press conference

01:06 said should have been given, he felt.

01:09 Percy Nighthorse, he sort of went down a little bit too easily.

01:14 He was carrying a little bit of momentum, but there wasn't an awful lot of contact.

01:18 In the second half, Arsenal come out of their traps quickly.

01:20 Jordan Pickford makes a good save, but Everton concede in the 69th minute.

01:24 Arsenal work a short corner, and Everton just sort of ponder as to it.

01:30 Arsenal were playing it around, and the ball's worked to the arms of Trossard,

01:34 and he finishes into the far corner.

01:37 After that, Everton never looked like they were going to score, to be honest with you.

01:40 I think there was maybe one shot from Adilis Adana-K that went over the bar, otherwise.

01:46 Yeah, Everton couldn't get going whatsoever.

01:49 A real toothless display, despite bringing Dwight McNeil back into the side

01:55 after his recovery from an ankle injury.

01:57 Beto was lively enough in the first half, but lacked service.

02:00 Dan Duma was very subdued, and Everton languished in the relegation zone.

02:07 Sean Dyches was quite surprised. He was in Sends like a lot of people inside Goodfriend Park.

02:12 Only four minutes of stoppage time went up.

02:14 Arsenal were taking a while over their corner.

02:18 They were eight substitutes in total, so usually there's 30 seconds per substitute.

02:22 That lasted up to at least four minutes, but to be quite frank,

02:26 Everton, 40 minutes because they went up on that ball, and Everton didn't look like scoring.

02:31 They haven't scored a whole ball season.

02:33 They created chances against Fulham and Wolves, but they really didn't today.

02:37 Things need to improve.

02:39 They go to Brentford next week, I beg your pardon,

02:42 and games against Bournemouth and Luton coming up.

02:44 Everton need to start getting points on the ball because they're 81 points and five.

02:48 Sean Dyches says he would have more points on the ball by now, and they haven't yet.

02:54 That's the truth of it. There's still significant improvements required.

02:59 Things need to start changing quickly because come the next international break,

03:03 next month, if Everton are languishing at the bottom,

03:07 then fans are going to start feeling the worst again.

03:10 They're going to expect another dogfight.

03:12 Sean Dyches said that things aren't going to change overnight.

03:15 He knows that small steps need to be made, but are the steps being made yet?

03:21 I don't know.

03:23 There have been some good signs, but there have been some signs that have been lingering for quite a while now.

03:32 He needs to solve that because he's the man in the hot seat.

03:35 Overall, Everton have beaten by the better sides.

03:38 Some good signs. Gerard Framptway was excellent at centre-half.

03:42 He was the young defender. He had good performance against a top side.

03:47 Vitaly Mikhalenko came back into the team at the first start of the season after injury in pre-season.

03:52 He played well. Dominic Calvert-Lewin got minutes after his facial injury.

03:58 Those are the positives. Sean Dyches has now got six days to work with these players ahead of Brentford next week.

04:04 Let's be quite frank, Everton need to get a result there.

04:08 Maybe a point might not be enough to quell the hysteria among fans.

04:18 It's starting to creep in a little bit. There was a bit of a sound of frustration.

04:22 Improvements need us. Everton 0-1 Arsenal.

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