DBasia.news – Captain and Everton defender, Phil Jagielka, scored a single Everton victory when beating Arsenal at Goodison Park, in the continuation of the Week 33 Premier League match, Sunday (7/4) evening WIB.
The goal not only ended Arsenal’s 10-game winning streak in the Premier League, but also, according to Opta, it has made Jagielka the oldest goalscorer in the Premier League at the age of 36 years 233 days.
Jagielka is second in the Premier League’s oldest goalscorer after Richard Gough, former Everton player (1999-2001), at 37 years 138 days. His goal also continued the momentum of Everton’s victory which had previously beaten Chelsea and West Ham United.
Everton have won two of the last Premier League matches against ‘the top six’ – as many as in the last 41 league matches against them (two wins, 14 draws and 25 defeats).
As for Arsenal, the away defeat exacerbated their away record this season in all competitions. 11 away games and the London Cannon only won twice, drew twice, and the rest (seven times) ended in defeat.
Arsenal are one of the two teams in Britain’s top two competitions who have failed to record clean sheets each time they played away. Arsenal have the same bad record as the Championship team, Ipswich Town.
“Today, there are two different rounds. In the first round, we consistently played, we did not receive dangerous threats from opponents, but they scored from one throw in, unfortunately for us, and in the attack area, we had to be more persistent. , “Emery said on Sky Sports.
“But, if the results are what we deserve in the first half – equally strong – we can continue in the second half and use the moment to get better results, better chances in attack.”
“But with the results in the first half, we had to change it quickly and in the second half, we decided to change the system and from the defensive side, we lost consistency.”
“They created more opportunities and we created better opportunities than the first half and didn’t score. We needed balance in both rounds. We lost a great opportunity to get three points today,” Emery said.
Everton were able to minimize the threat from Arsenal despite only dominating the possession by 43 percent. Arsenal only released two kicks on target from the seven attempted kicks they did.
Everton’s attacking midfielder from Iceland, Gylfi Sigurdsson, even had seven attempted kicks to Bernd Leno’s goal. That number is as much as an experiment conducted by all Arsenal team players if combined.
Arsenal are still ranked fourth in the Premier League standings, but the defeat is increasingly heating up the struggle for a place in the Champions League zone. Besides Arsenal, the remaining two tickets are still contested by Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Manchester United.