Will Rooney reports from Goodison Park.
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00:00 Well, full-time Erik Hudson-Parker finished Everton 0, Arsenal 1.
00:04 Everton suffer a fourth Premier League defeat in their opening five games,
00:08 which leaves them in the relegation zone at this formative stage of the campaign.
00:12 And yeah, Everton probably deserve to get beat.
00:16 I mean, they showed some defensive resilience, to be fair to them,
00:20 throughout the game, but ultimately they didn't have enough going forward,
00:23 so they barely tested the Arsenal goalkeeper, David Breyer.
00:26 Four shots in total, one on target, and that was a real weak effort as well
00:30 from Idrissa Ghana getting the first half to say.
00:33 Everton were given a reprieve in the 19th minute,
00:37 because Gabriel Martinelli opened the scoring,
00:40 really poor from Amadou Nanna, he appealed for offside, completely stopped.
00:45 Arsenal won the ball and went and got to Martinelli on the left,
00:49 and he put it past Jordan Pickford.
00:51 Luckily enough, there was a VAR check, and Eddie Nketiah in the build-up
00:55 was deemed to have been offside, so luckily Everton were given a reprieve.
01:00 But it didn't create too much in the first half.
01:03 Zappori has a penalty shot, which Sean Dyches in his post-match press conference
01:06 said should have been given, he felt.
01:09 Percy Nighthorse, he sort of went down a little bit too easily.
01:14 He was carrying a little bit of momentum, but there wasn't an awful lot of contact.
01:18 In the second half, Arsenal come out of their traps quickly.
01:20 Jordan Pickford makes a good save, but Everton concede in the 69th minute.
01:24 Arsenal work a short corner, and Everton just sort of ponder as to it.
01:30 Arsenal were playing it around, and the ball's worked to the arms of Trossard,
01:34 and he finishes into the far corner.
01:37 After that, Everton never looked like they were going to score, to be honest with you.
01:40 I think there was maybe one shot from Adilis Adana-K that went over the bar, otherwise.
01:46 Yeah, Everton couldn't get going whatsoever.
01:49 A real toothless display, despite bringing Dwight McNeil back into the side
01:55 after his recovery from an ankle injury.
01:57 Beto was lively enough in the first half, but lacked service.
02:00 Dan Duma was very subdued, and Everton languished in the relegation zone.
02:07 Sean Dyches was quite surprised. He was in Sends like a lot of people inside Goodfriend Park.
02:12 Only four minutes of stoppage time went up.
02:14 Arsenal were taking a while over their corner.
02:18 They were eight substitutes in total, so usually there's 30 seconds per substitute.
02:22 That lasted up to at least four minutes, but to be quite frank,
02:26 Everton, 40 minutes because they went up on that ball, and Everton didn't look like scoring.
02:31 They haven't scored a whole ball season.
02:33 They created chances against Fulham and Wolves, but they really didn't today.
02:37 Things need to improve.
02:39 They go to Brentford next week, I beg your pardon,
02:42 and games against Bournemouth and Luton coming up.
02:44 Everton need to start getting points on the ball because they're 81 points and five.
02:48 Sean Dyches says he would have more points on the ball by now, and they haven't yet.
02:54 That's the truth of it. There's still significant improvements required.
02:59 Things need to start changing quickly because come the next international break,
03:03 next month, if Everton are languishing at the bottom,
03:07 then fans are going to start feeling the worst again.
03:10 They're going to expect another dogfight.
03:12 Sean Dyches said that things aren't going to change overnight.
03:15 He knows that small steps need to be made, but are the steps being made yet?
03:21 I don't know.
03:23 There have been some good signs, but there have been some signs that have been lingering for quite a while now.
03:32 He needs to solve that because he's the man in the hot seat.
03:35 Overall, Everton have beaten by the better sides.
03:38 Some good signs. Gerard Framptway was excellent at centre-half.
03:42 He was the young defender. He had good performance against a top side.
03:47 Vitaly Mikhalenko came back into the team at the first start of the season after injury in pre-season.
03:52 He played well. Dominic Calvert-Lewin got minutes after his facial injury.
03:58 Those are the positives. Sean Dyches has now got six days to work with these players ahead of Brentford next week.
04:04 Let's be quite frank, Everton need to get a result there.
04:08 Maybe a point might not be enough to quell the hysteria among fans.
04:18 It's starting to creep in a little bit. There was a bit of a sound of frustration.
04:22 Improvements need us. Everton 0-1 Arsenal.