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Saturday October 18, 2008 Finished Emirates Stadium

3 - 1

Arsenal

  • Nasri 49’
  • van Persie 70’
  • Walcott 89’

Everton

  • Osman 9’

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  1. Arsenal overcome Everton

    Arsenal overcome Everton

    Samir Nasri, Robin Van Persie and Theo Walcott scored second-half goals as Arsenal defeated Everton 3-1 at the Emirates Stadium. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Arsenal
    • Everton
    • 90+4' The final whistle goes and Arsenal return to winning ways and are now four points behind leaders Chelsea and Liverpool.
    • 90+2' Walcott's cross is hooked clear by Jagielka with Adebayor waiting to pounce.
    • 90' Four minutes added time.
    • 89' GOAL ARSENAL!! Walcott starts the move and finds Diaby whose pull back from the by-line is slammed home by the England teenager for his first Premier League goal at the Emirates.
    • 86' Osman is booked for a late tackle on Denilson.
    • 84' Fabregas not at his best today and screws a shot wide.
    • 82' Nasri hobbles off with a thigh injury and is replaced by Abou Diaby.
    • 80' Double change for Everton with Phil Neville and James Vaughan replacing Tony Hibbert and Yakubu respectively.
    • 78' Van Persie's shot is deflected behind off Lescott for a corner.
    • 77' Nasri's low shot is smothered by Howard.
    • 75' Louis Saha is on for Fellaini.
    • 74' A Fabregas corner is headed over from eight yards by van Persie.
    • 72' A fiercely struck free-kick from Fabregas is deflected behind for a corner.
    • 70' GOAL ARSENAL!! It was on the cards. Adebayor checks back on the left-hand side of the box, draws two defenders and lines up Fabregas who is denied by a fantastic close range save from Howard. But van Persie is on hand to nod home the rebound, finding the gap between the keeper and Baines on the line.
    • 69' Adebayor finds van Persie who tees up Denilson but his shot is blocked by Jagielka.
    • 67' Yakubu muscles Silvestre off the ball but screws his shot well wide.
    • 65' Pienaar booked for tripping Eboue from behind.
    • 64' Clichy's dink into the penalty area is nodded away by Jagielka.
    • 62' Yakubu's header almost falls into the path of Pienaar but Almunia is aware to the danger once more.
    • 60' Rodwell heads behind for a corner which Walcott nods goalbound. The England man drops to the ground after a clash of heads but is ok after some treatment.
    • 59' Hibbert goes in hard on Denilson from behind and a melee ensues between the Everton full-back and Clichy. Both are booked for the confrontation.
    • 57' Van Persie is pulled down by Leighton Baines in the area but no penalty! It looked a stick on but Walton says no.
    • 55' Arsenal are carving out chances at will now and Eboue's centre is smashed miles over the top by an unmarked van Persie on the penalty spot.
    • 54' Walcott tees up Nasri but this time he is denied by a desperate diving block.
    • 53' Van Persie takes on Lescott and gets the ball on to his left foot but his shot is straight at Howard.
    • 52' Fellaini is a real threat from set pieces and he wins another header but Osman can't take advantage - his shot easily saved.
    • 50' Fabregas tries to line up van Persie but Hibbert slides in to deny him.
    • 49' GOAL ARSENAL!! The corner is only half cleared and Silvestre tees up Nasri whose fierce 25-yard drive takes a deflection off Lescott and nestles in the corner of the net.
    • 48' Van Persie's free-kick skims off the head of Osman and behind for a corner.
    • 47' Fellaini's header into the penalty area drops to Yakubu as he muscles Song off the ball but Almunia is off his line smartly to smuggle the ball off the Everton striker.
    • 46' Toure has been forced off with that shoulder injury so Walcott is on at the start of the second-half. Eboue drops to right back with Song partnership Silvestre at the heart of the defence.
    • 45+3' Half-time and Everton lead an entertaining, opening affair.
    • 45' Van Persie loses the ball on the edge of his own area but Yakubu's effort is high and very wide.
    • 44' Fabregas drives the ball across the face of the goal but no-one is on hand to apply the finishing touch.
    • 43' Fellaini's cross is met by Arteta but he fails to get any real purchase on his header.
    • 42' Fabregas gets the better of Fellaini on the edge of the penalty area but then Song runs straight into the young Belgian.
    • 40' A 35-yard piledriver from Fabregas is narrowly past the post. Great effort.
    • 38' Lescott's header is chested off the line by Gael Clichy after the Everton man climbs highest from the corner.
    • 37' Fellaini beats the offside trap but his first touch is poor and he delays the cross which deflects off Toure for a corner.
    • 35' Toure's long ball finds Adebayor but Jagielka stays strong in the penalty area.
    • 34' Adebayor is booked for running into Jagielka in the penalty area and then going to ground.
    • 33' Some slick passing from the Gunners but the final shot from Fabregas is straight at Howard.
    • 31' Van Persie's curling free-kick is punched clear by Howard.
    • 30' Lescott picks up a yellow card after a tangle of arms with van Persie on the right hand side, just inches outside the penalty area.
    • 29' Arsenal counter at speed and Emmanuel Eboue picks out van Persie but he fails to hit the target with his favoured left foot.
    • 28' Pienaar skips away from Denilson but his low cross is well held by Manuel Almunia.
    • 26' Clichy's cross is headed over the top by Adebayor, a great climb after getting ahead of Jagielka but no direction.
    • 24' A great challenge from Lescott denies Samir Nasri a certain equaliser. Song's cross is nodded back across goal by Fabregas but the England man pokes the ball clear with the French youngster waiting to pull the trigger.
    • 22' A fine challenge from Rodwell stops a marauding Kolo Toure in his tracks. The Ivorian seems to have picked up a shoulder injury.
    • 20' Adebayor over complicates in the penalty area and Tony Hibbert holds firm.
    • 19' Osman so close to his second. A counter-attack from Everton and the midfielder has acres of space but his 20-yard shot is deflected just past the post by Silvestre.
    • 18' Song's cross is comfortably headed clear by Phil Jagielka.
    • 16' Van Persie gets behind Joleon Lescott, takes the long ball perfectly in his stride but his shot is superbly blocked by Tim Howard from point blank range.
    • 14' Marouane Fellaini's header is deflected behind for another corner which the sluggish hosts eventually clear.
    • 13' Everton win the first corner of the match as Song heads behind.
    • 11' Fabregas tries his luck from 25 yards but it is too high.
    • 9' GOAL EVERTON!! Space for Pienaar down the left as emergency right-back Alexandre Song goes missing and his cross into the centre is poked past Almunia by Leon Osman.
    • 7' Kolo Toure's searching diagonal ball is chested down by van Persie but he is crowded out in the area.
    • 6' Robin Van Persie's lay-off in the penalty area is cut out by Rodwell.
    • 4' Emmanuel Adebayor is one-on-one with Rodwell but Pienaar gets back to cover and takes a knock for his efforts.
    • 2' Everton start brightly but Steven Pienaar puts too much on his cross into the penalty area.
    • 1' Referee Peter Walton gets the game underway at the Emirates.
    • 14:50 Everton boss David Moyes has packed his midfield with teenager Jack Rodwell replacing striker Louis Saha.
    • 14:45 Defender Mikael Silvestre made his debut for Arsenal with captain William Gallas and Bacary Sagna both injured on international duty. Cesc Fabregas is fit but Theo Walcott is on the bench.

  • Team Stats

    Arsenal Stats Everton
    63% Possession 36%
    25 Shots 7
    11 Shots on target 2
    1 Saves 6
    7 Corners 4
    14 Fouls 8
    5 Offsides 5
    2 Yellow cards 4
    0 Red cards 0
    29 Tackles 20
    430 Accurate passes 201
    69 Bad passes 44

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Arsenal
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Manuel Almunia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 2 0
      5 Kolo Toure 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 1 2
      17 Alexandre Song 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 36 0 3
      22 Gaël Clichy 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 39 10 6
      18 Mikael Silvestre 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 24 2 0
      15 Denilson Pereira Neves 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 74 11 4
      4 Francesc Fabregas 0 6 2 1 0 0 0 68 10 2
      27 Emmanuel Eboue 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 44 1 1
      8 Samir Nasri 1 3 2 2 1 0 0 27 11 4
      25 Emmanuel Adebayor 0 3 1 2 0 5 0 32 8 3
      11 Robin Van Persie 1 9 4 1 2 0 0 36 7 2
      14 Theo Walcott 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 11 2 2
      41 Gavin Hoyte 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      12 Carlos Vela 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      40 Kieran Gibbs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Vasiriki Abou Diaby 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 4 0
      21 Lukasz Fabianski 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      16 Aaron Ramsey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Everton
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      24 Tim Howard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 2 0
      6 Phil Jagielka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 2
      26 Jack Rodwell 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 19 3 2
      3 Leighton Baines 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 21 8 4
      2 Tony Hibbert 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 19 0 3
      5 Joleon Lescott 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 17 2 1
      10 Mikel Arteta 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 21 4 2
      25 Marouane Fellaini 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 19 5 3
      21 Leon Osman 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 29 10 2
      20 Steven Pienaar 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 10 6 1
      22 Yakubu Aiyegbeni 0 2 0 2 0 5 0 12 3 0
      14 James Vaughan 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
      38 James Wallace 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      9 Louis Saha 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0
      32 Dan Gosling 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Carlo Nash 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      19 Nuno Valente 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      18 Philip Neville 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0

  • Summary

    • 89' GOAL ARSENAL!! Walcott starts the move and finds Diaby whose pull back from the by-line is slammed home by the England teenager for his first Premier League goal at the Emirates.
    • 74' A Fabregas corner is headed over from eight yards by van Persie.
    • 70' GOAL ARSENAL!! It was on the cards. Adebayor checks back on the left-hand side of the box, draws two defenders and lines up Fabregas who is denied by a fantastic close range save from Howard. But van Persie is on hand to nod home the rebound, finding the gap between the keeper and Baines on the line.
    • 57' Van Persie is pulled down by Leighton Baines in the area but no penalty! It looked a stick on but Walton says no.
    • 55' Arsenal are carving out chances at will now and Eboue's centre is smashed miles over the top by an unmarked van Persie on the penalty spot.
    • 49' GOAL ARSENAL!! The corner is only half cleared and Silvestre tees up Nasri whose fierce 25-yard drive takes a deflection off Lescott and nestles in the corner of the net.
    • 47' Fellaini's header into the penalty area drops to Yakubu as he muscles Song off the ball but Almunia is off his line smartly to smuggle the ball off the Everton striker.
    • 44' Fabregas drives the ball across the face of the goal but no-one is on hand to apply the finishing touch.
    • 38' Lescott's header is chested off the line by Gael Clichy after the Everton man climbs highest from the corner.
    • 29' Arsenal counter at speed and Emmanuel Eboue picks out van Persie but he fails to hit the target with his favoured left foot.
    • 24' A great challenge from Lescott denies Samir Nasri a certain equaliser. Song's cross is nodded back across goal by Fabregas but the England man pokes the ball clear with the French youngster waiting to pull the trigger.
    • 19' Osman so close to his second. A counter-attack from Everton and the midfielder has acres of space but his 20-yard shot is deflected just past the post by Silvestre.
    • 16' Van Persie gets behind Joleon Lescott, takes the long ball perfectly in his stride but his shot is superbly blocked by Tim Howard from point blank range.
    • 9' GOAL EVERTON!! Space for Pienaar down the left as emergency right-back Alexandre Song goes missing and his cross into the centre is poked past Almunia by Leon Osman.
    • 14:45 Defender Mikael Silvestre made his debut for Arsenal with captain William Gallas and Bacary Sagna both injured on international duty. Cesc Fabregas is fit but Theo Walcott is on the bench.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Peter Walton

  • Arsenal

    Manager: Arsene Wenger

    Captain: Cesc Fabregas

    Starting line-up

    • M. Almunia
    • A. Song
    • M. Silvestre
    • K. Toure Substitution Out (46′)
    • G. Clichy Yellow Card
    • E. Eboue
    • C. Fabregas
    • .. Denilson
    • S. Nasri Goal Substitution Out (82′)
    • R. van Persie Goal
    • E. Adebayor Yellow Card

    Subs

    • A. Diaby Substitution In82′
    • T. Walcott Substitution In46′ Goal
    • L. Fabianski
    • C. Vela
    • K. Gibbs
    • A. Ramsey
    • G. Hoyte

    Injured

    • T. Rosicky
    • W. Gallas
    • B. Sagna
    • N. Bendtner
    • A. Bischoff
    • D. Eduardo

    Suspended

    None

  • Everton

    Manager: David Moyes

    Captain: Mikel Arteta

    Starting line-up

    • T. Howard
    • L. Baines
    • J. Lescott Yellow Card
    • P. Jagielka
    • T. Hibbert Yellow Card Substitution Out (80′)
    • M. Arteta
    • J. Rodwell
    • M. Fellaini Substitution Out (75′)
    • S. Pienaar Yellow Card
    • L. Osman Goal Yellow Card
    • A. Yakubu Substitution Out (80′)

    Subs

    • P. Neville Substitution In80′
    • L. Saha Substitution In75′
    • C. Nash
    • N. Valente
    • J. Vaughan Substitution In80′
    • D. Gosling
    • J. Wallace

    Injured

    • A. Van der Meyde
    • L. Jacobsen
    • V. Anichebe
    • S. Castillo

    Suspended

    • T. Cahill

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