Arsenal vs Everton LIVE score: Premier League result and reaction as Gabriel Martinelli adds fourth goal

6 mins: Arsenal’s corner routine sees them knock the ball short and pass it across to Jorginho who guides a side-footed shot just wide of the far post!

Arsenal are growing nicely into this game.

3 mins: Alex Iwobi drives down the right wing for Everton but loses the ball on the edge of the Arsenal box when he’s shut out by Oleksandr Zinchenko.

Zinchenko gives it to Granit Xhaka who transition Arsenal into attack with a threaded pass into midfield. Bukayo Saka receives the ball on the righ hand channel.

He looks to take on Vitaliy Mykolenko but Dwight McNeil sprints back to help out and Everton turn the ball behind for a corner.

Everton get the match underway at the Emirates Stadium. Abdoulaye Doucoure sends the ball to Michael Kean who bombs a forward ball over to the right wing.

Amadou Onana and Gabriel both leap towards the aerial ball and the Everton midfielder takes a knock to the face from Gabriel’s stray arm.

Here come the players.

Martin Odegaard and Seamus Coleman lead out their respective teams. Arsenal will move five points clear of Manchester City if they defeat Everton tonight.

The Toffees were triumphant when they met the Gunners at Goodison Park, can they repeat that result at the Emirates too?

Sean Dyche lost his first nine Premier League games as a manager against Arsenal but has been beaten in only one of his last six against them (W2, D3).

Dyche’s teams have never scored more than once in his 15 meetings with the Gunners, netting just seven in total.

Gabriel Martinelli is vying to score in three consecutive Premier League appearances within a single season for the first time.

Martinelli is one shy of 10 Premier League goals, and could become the third Brazilian to reach double figures in a single campaign while aged 21 or under, emulating Gabriel Jesus in 2017/18 and Richarlison in 2018/19.

Mikel Arteta says he empathises with Graham Potter as he battles to save his job at Stamford Bridge – warning the Chelsea head coach not to let negativity “destroy his life”.

The Blues sit 10th in the Premier League after losing to Tottenham on Sunday and are now 26 points adrift of Arteta’s table-topping Arsenal.

Potter has won just nine of the 26 games he has managed across all competitions since replacing Thomas Tuchel in September. The former Brighton boss revealed ahead of the Spurs defeat that he and his children has received death threats.

Mikel Arteta has lost four Premier League matches as a manager against Everton - the only side against whom he has a worse record is Manchester City (six defeats).

Everton’s 2-1 victory at Southampton is their only win in their previous 13 Premier League away fixtures (five draws, seven defeats).

They have netted just once in seven top-flight away games since the win at St Mary’s - Demarai Gray’s strike in the 1-1 draw at Manchester City on 31st December.

It was in the build-up to a game against Arsenal when Sean Dyche showed Dominic Calvert-Lewin a reel of his goals. He urged the striker to get in the box, between the width of the posts and on the end of crosses. Calvert-Lewin responded with five attempts before half-time.

Not Wednesday’s game against Arsenal, admittedly. Calvert-Lewin is out injured, as he has been for three-quarters of Dyche’s reign and much of Frank Lampard’s. There is no timescale for his return which, given his fitness record since scoring 21 goals for Carlo Ancelotti in 2020/21, may be both depressing and sensible. Predictions of his return can appear optimistic amid seemingly endless absences.

Take out Calvert-Lewin and Everton go into the rematch of Dyche’s debut as the lowest scorers in the Premier League and with the weakest available strike force. They are the only team without a player with at least four league goals this season and one of their pair on three, Anthony Gordon, is now on Newcastle’s books. Specialist strikers have delivered just two. Both goals under Dyche have come from defenders: a freakishly brilliant effort from Seamus Coleman and a set-piece header from James Tarkowski.