Everton halt Arsenal march, Liverpool slide continues

Arsenal suffered a actuality test of their pursuit of the Premier League title on Saturday, dropping 1-0 at struggling Everton in supervisor Sean Dyche’s first sport in cost, whereas Liverpool imploded of their third consecutive away defeat.

James Tarkowski’s second-half header sealed Everton’s first victory since October, briefly transferring them out of the relegation zone – though they ended the day again in it.

While there was pleasure on the blue aspect of Merseyside, Liverpool’s depressing league marketing campaign continued as they have been crushed 3-0 at Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Liverpool trailed 2-0 after solely 12 minutes with Joel Matip’s personal purpose and a debut effort for Craig Dawson. Ruben Neves added a 3rd for the hosts after the break.

“When you start like this you don’t deserve anything in a Premier League game,” Liverpool supervisor Juergen Klopp stated.

“We have to change it immediately in the next game.”

Manchester United consolidated their top-four place with a 2-1 victory at house to Crystal Palace, though it got here at a price with midfielder Casemiro proven a straight pink card.

United edged above Newcastle United into third place with 42 factors and Newcastle did not reclaim the place later as they might solely draw at house to West Ham United.

Callum Wilson gave Newcastle the lead within the third minute however West Ham levelled by means of Lucas Paqueta simply previous the half hour mark — the primary purpose Newcastle have conceded within the league since early November.

Newcastle have now drawn 4 of their final 5 league video games and scored solely twice in that spell.

Arsenal’s second league lack of the season left them on 50 factors, 5 forward of champions Manchester City who’re at fifth-placed Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.

With no signings within the January window and Everton in a horrendous run of kind, the omens weren’t good for Dyche as he started his rescue mission at Goodison Park in opposition to an Arsenal aspect whose solely earlier league defeat got here in September.

But Everton took full benefit of a uncommon Arsenal off-day with Dwight McNeil’s nook being powered house by Tarkowski — two gamers who had labored below Dyche at Burnley.

“I’ve just said to them that it’s a start point, that’s all it is. We’re laying down the fibre of what we want to be as a group but this is only a start point, no matter who you beat,” Dyche stated of Everton’s first win in 11 in all competitions.

Everton are in 18th place with 18 factors, behind Leeds United, who play Sunday, on purpose distinction. West Ham have 19 factors with Wolves on 20.

For Arsenal it was a wake-up name and they are going to be hoping for a favour from Tottenham, who play second-placed Manchester City on Sunday.

“From our side, we’re disappointed because obviously we didn’t get the result that we wanted, but the performance doesn’t reflect what we’ve been doing,” the Spaniard stated.

Arsenal host Manchester City on Feb. 15.

Southampton stay rooted to the underside after a 3-0 defeat at Brentford, whereas Bournemouth are second from backside after dropping late on at Brighton and Hove Albion who moved into sixth spot due to Kaoru Mitoma’s late purpose in a 1-0 win.

Leicester City additionally allayed their relegation fears as they picked up their first league win since November, twice coming from behind to win 4-2 at Aston Villa.

Everything was going easily for Manchester United after Bruno Fernandes transformed a penalty after which Marcus Rashford scored his eleventh purpose for the reason that World Cup to make it 2-0 at Old Trafford.

But Casemiro was dismissed within the seventieth minute for grabbing Will Hughes across the neck throughout a melee brought on by a foul on Anthony. Palace made it a nervy ending when Jeffrey Schlupp halved the deficit.

United noticed out a thirteenth consecutive win at Old Trafford however they may now be with out Casemiro for 3 video games.

“I’ve seen the incident, where the Crystal Palace player takes a big risk to bring an injury to Antony and then the emotions got really high, for several players,” Erik ten Hag stated. “They (VAR) pick one player out.”