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Arsenal has lost in the Premier League for just the second time this season as Everton pulled off a surprising 1-0 win over the leaders in its first match ...

“Today I love them much better than the week before or a month ago. “This is not going to be a rose pathway,” Arteta said. I am still so proud of all of these players.” Everton, which claimed its first victory since Oct. Dyche said he had crammed a lot of instructions to his players into his first week on the job and wanted to get them to “understand the basics of the game.” It will go down as one of Arsenal’s worst performances of the season, at a time when Mikel Arteta’s team was looking in prime shape to go on and win the league for the first time since 2004.

Arsenal suffered a reality check in their pursuit of the Premier League title on Saturday, losing 1-0 at struggling Everton in manager Sean Dyche's first ...

Palace made it a nervy ending when Jeffrey Schlupp halved the deficit. "They (VAR) pick one player out." "I've just said to them that it's a start point, that's all it is. Liverpool trailed 2-0 after only 12 minutes with Joel Matip's own goal and a debut effort for Craig Dawson. Southampton remain rooted to the bottom after a 3-0 defeat at Brentford, while Bournemouth are second from bottom after losing late on at Brighton and Hove Albion who moved into sixth spot thanks to Kaoru Mitoma's late goal in a 1-0 win. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

And then, in this match at Goodison Park — their very next league game — they showed some of the reasons they may ultimately fall short. Arsenal simply did not ...

[Thomas Partey](https://theathletic.com/football/player/thomas-partey-WvYPPsYnodFQ5XO1/) and [Martin Odegaard](https://theathletic.com/football/player/martin-odegaard-hRSWwjJppH2Xn0jr/) during the second half. It is up to his players to determine whether this result is remembered as a temporary blip or a critical slip in the title race. This journey is going to be difficult and challenging and there are going to be big stones in the middle and we have to overcome that. Goodison Park has been a difficult ground for this manager, and this team — Arteta has now lost on each of his three visits to his former club in the Arsenal dugout. [Eddie Nketiah](https://theathletic.com/football/player/eddie-nketiah-DEv6ydhcRGewFPXs/) has deputised effectively for the Brazilian, but Jesus’ capacity to drop deep and help build the play was missed here. The Ukrainian’s passion has been a feature of Arsenal’s superb first half of the season — but now, after two consecutive defeats across league and cup, is a time for cool heads. By the time they eventually worked the ball out to him, the Brazilian was outnumbered in a two-v-one. Their replacements, debutant [Jorginho](https://theathletic.com/football/player/jorginho-MvC0hVi06208wo5E/) and [Fabio Vieira](https://theathletic.com/football/player/fabio-vieira-FgNHmkTUv1GO03Gb/), struggled to cope with the physicality of Everton’s approach. On the pitch, they struggled to show it. The congestion in the centre of the pitch meant there was often space out wide. Dyche found an antidote by deploying a trio of aggressive ball-winners and setting up the team in a narrow system designed to slow Arsenal’s ball progression through the middle of the pitch. It was a performance with the mark of champions.

Arsenal were on the receiving end of Everton's new manager bounce as they slipped to a costly defeat 1-0 to Sean Dyche's men on Saturday.

They were second best all afternoon and could easily have been behind before Tarkowski towered over Odegaard to head home Dwight McNeil’s corner on the hour mark. The defeat - Arsenal’s third in a row at Goodison Park - could see their lead at the top of the table cut to just two points if Manchester City win at Tottenham on Sunday, although the Gunners would still have a game in hand. The home side went into the game having lost eight of their last nine matches in all competitions but, inspired by new manager Sean Dyche, they outfought and outplayed the Premier League leaders on Merseyside.

James Tarkowski headed in an inswinging corner to the far post from Dwight McNeil for the winning goal in the 60th minute, capping a performance of intensity ...

Everton, which claimed its first victory since Oct. “Today I love them much better than the week before or a month ago. I am still so proud of all of these players." “This is not going to be a rose pathway," Arteta said. Dyche said he had crammed a lot of instructions to his players into his first week on the job and wanted to get them to “understand the basics of the game.” It will go down as one of Arsenal's worst performances of the season, at a time when Mikel Arteta's team was looking in prime shape to go on and win the league for the first time since 2004.

James Tarkowski netted the only goal of the game to condemn us to only our second league defeat of the season.

With a precious three points now in their grasp, Everton began to sit back and protect them, allowing us a few more sights of goal. Copyright 2023 The Arsenal Football Club plc. There was plenty more late pressure but Everton were throwing everything at us, and that meant that a late drive from Oleksandr Zinchenko that whistled over the bar was our best late chance of note as we failed to score in a Premier League game for just the second time this campaign.