Phil Jagielka Helped Everton Overcome Arsenal at Goodison Park

DBasia.news –  Arsenal lost with a score of 0-1 when visiting Goodison Park, Everton headquarters, in the Week 33 continuing Premier League, Sunday (7/4) evening WIB. The defeat is increasingly making hot competition in the Champions League zone.

Arsenal tried to fix their away record in the Premier League against Everton at Goodison Park. Unai Emery, Arsenal manager, lowered 3-4-3 tactics by relying on Mesut Ozil, Alexandre Lacazette and Henrikh Mkhitaryan on the front lines.

While Marco Silva’s Everton remained with a 4-2-3-1 tactic and only relied on Dominic Calvert-Lewin as the spearhead. Silva prefers to solidify the strength in the midfield to compensate for Arsenal’s game

Silva’s plan went smoothly. Everton immediately exceled quickly when the game ran for 10 minutes.

Starting from the throwing ball taken by Lucas Digne, the Arsenal player could not anticipate the ball and Everton captain, Phil Jagielka, is in the right position to score. 1-0 superior hosts.

After that advantage Everton played with discipline, wisdom, organized, survived by relying on counterattacks. The tactic was quite troublesome for Arsenal who did not have the intensity of playing high in this first round. As a result, the first half ended with a score of 1-0 to host excellence.

Emery tried to change the intensity of his team’s play by including Aaron Ramsey and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the second round, replacing Mohamed Elneny and Sead Kolasinac. The result, Arsenal’s game did look more alive and sharp.

However, the Everton defense raised by English duo, Jagielka and Michael Keane, survived well. Jordan Pickford’s performance was also difficult to defeat by Arsenal’s offensive players. Emery replaced his players by entering Alex Iwobi in place of Ozil.

Silva tried to buy time by including three players before the match broke up, they were: Theo Walcott, Tom Davies, and Ademola Lookman.

Arsenal were increasingly frustrated at scoring goals and in the end, until the time showed an additional 90+ 5 minutes, no more goals were created. Everton ended Arsenal’s 10-game winning streak with a 1-0 win.

Player composition:

Everton (4-2-3-1): Jordan Pickford; Seamus Coleman, Michael Keane, Kurt Zouma, Lucas Digne; Andre Gomes, Idrissa Gueye; Richarlison (Theo Walcott 79 ‘), Gylfi Sigurdsson (Tom Davies 90 + 1’), Bernard (Ademola Lookman 88 ‘); Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

Substitute players: Tom Davies, Phil Jagielka, Maarten Stekelenburg, Cenk Tosun, Theo Walcott, Leighton Baines, Ademola Lookman

Manager: Marco Silva

Arsenal (3-4-3): Bernd Leno; Shkodran Mustafi, Sokratis, Nacho Monreal; Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Mohamed Elneny (Aaron Ramsey 46 ‘), Matteo Guendouzi, Sead Kolasinac (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 46’); Mesut Ozil (Alex Iwobi 74 ‘), Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Alexandre Lacazette.

Substitute players: Stephan Lichtsteiner, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Carl Jenkinson, Aaron Ramsey, Alex Iwobi, Petr Cech, Denis Suarez.

Manager: Unai Emery