{"id":396965,"date":"2023-02-04T13:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T18:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=396965"},"modified":"2023-02-09T07:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:56:23","slug":"much-improved-everton-stuns-arsenal-in-dyches-debut","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/much-improved-everton-stuns-arsenal-in-dyches-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Much-improved Everton stun Arsenal in Dyche&#8217;s debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Dyche&#8217;s Everton reign got off to a flying start as James Tarkowski&#8217;s header handed Premier League leaders Arsenal a shock 1-0 defeat at a raucous Goodison Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FT. YESSSSSS!!!!!!!! \u270a<\/p>\n<p>Big. Three. Points&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UP THE TOFFEES!!! \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QUgiiRZOpW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QUgiiRZOpW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton\/status\/1621877847257190400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Toffees looked revitalized in their first outing under the former Burnley boss, and it was two of his former Clarets players who combined for the winner \u2013 Tarkowski powering Dwight McNeil&#8217;s corner home on the hour.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal were kept at arm&#8217;s length by Everton during an unusually disjointed display, with the deserved victory dragging Everton \u2013 at least temporarily \u2013 out of the relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p>The Merseysiders picked up their first victory in 11 games in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Having suffered just their second league defeat of the season, the Gunners could see their lead at the summit cut to two points when title rivals Manchester City face Tottenham on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Visiting captain Martin Odegaard blazed over from a good position after 59 minutes, and Arsenal were punished a minute later as Tarkowski found the bottom-right corner with a fine header from McNeil&#8217;s right-wing corner.<\/p>\n<p>The North London side introduced January additions Jorginho and Leandro Trossard in search of a leveller, but the latter&#8217;s 20-yard attempt, saved by Jordan Pickford, was as close as they came as their title hopes suffered a huge blow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Dyche&#8217;s Everton reign got off to a flying start as James Tarkowski&#8217;s header handed Premier League leaders Arsenal a shock 1-0 defeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":396966,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,16861],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Dyche was appointed following the departure of Frank Lampard","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/396965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/396965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396965"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=396965"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=396965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}