Everton 0-1 Arsenal: Player ratings as Trossard goal earns Gunners win

A Leandro Trossard goal proved to be the difference between Arsenal and Everton Sunday in what was a stodgy affair at Goodison Park.

Sean Dyche applied a 'park the bus' approach to try and fend off the Gunners on Sunday but, ultimately, the visitors' quality prevailed when substitute Trossard brilliantly side-footed the ball into the net after an intricate move.

The win sees Arsenal move level on points with Tottenham and Liverpool in the chasing pack behind leaders Manchester City, while Everton have dropped into the bottom three having only accumulated one point from their first five games.

Arsenal, as expected, totally dominated the early proceedings and pinning Everton back into their own half with relative ease. The Gunners thought they had taken a deserved lead on the 20th minute mark when Fabio Vieira slid the ball through to Gabriel Martinelli on the left of the penalty area, and the Brazilian coolly dispatched into the bottom corner of the net.

After a VAR check, however, the goal was ruled out due to Eddie Nketiah being marginally offside in the build up to the goal.

That disallowed goal proved to be Martinelli's last contribution of the game, as the wide player hobbled off injured soon after. An unlucky day for Martinelli, to say the least.

The Gunners would continue to dominate throughout the remainder of the first half, accumulating a whopping 78% possession, but after Martinelli hobbled off they largely failed to find any gaps in a turgid Everton back 10.

Arsenal came out of the traps with an extra spring in their step in the second half, moving the ball much quicker and with much more intent. That added intent led to the first notable strike on goal the Gunners had mustered since the offside goal, with Martin Odegaard cutting in from the right of the box to sting the hands of Jordan Pickford with a venomous strike.

It would take until the 68th minute for the visitors to finally get their breakthrough.

That breakthrough would come following an extremely intricate piece of passing play by the Gunners in and around the penalty area which culminated in Bukayo Saka pulling the ball back into the path of Leandro Trossard, who subsequently was able to guide the ball beautifully into the far corner of the net.

It was very nearly 2-0 ten minutes later when Arsenal broke forward quickly in numbers. The effort on goal that this break culminated in proved to be one from Odegaard which was well saved.