Daily Express - 02.09.2019

FOOTBALL: PREMIER LEAGUE Daily Express Monday, September 02, 2019^63

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Main picture: JULIAN FINNEY

By Matthew Dunn

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ARSENAL

TOTTENHAM

ARSENAL v TOTTENHAM

55 POSSESSION % 45

8 SHOTS ON TARGET 9

10 SHOTS OFF TARGET 3

11 CORNERS 6

3 OFFSIDES 1

13 FOULS 19

3 YELLOW CARDS 5

0 RED CARDS 0

Source: Opta

for us. This season he did

Copa America and after was on

holiday and started the first

game against Crystal Palace

after 13 days

working with us.

“We cannot do

miracles. He needs

time, like all players,

to be in the best

physical condition.

He scored two really

important goals for

us. He will keep improving for

sure. We are talking about a

fantastic player, a fantastic boy.

He is the spirit inside our

dressing room.”

The game got

off to a breakneck

start when a poor

pass back from

Conor Coady led to

Wolves keeper Rui

Patricio swiping at

a clearance that

found its way to Moise Kean and

then Richarlison, who fired home

in the fifth minute. Four minutes

later, Adama Traore brushed off

Lucas Digne and his cross found

Saiss, who smashed it in.

It was the first goal Everton

had conceded in the league at

Goodison Park since February.

Soon after, Gylfi Sigurdsson

swung over a great cross and

Iwobi rose to head home. It took

Wolves until the 75th minute to

equalise again, this time a header

from Jimenez. But a superb cross

from Digne was expertly floated

past Patricio by Richarlison and

the home crowd celebrated a

second win of the campaign.

Willy Boly’s late red card for

a second bookable offence was

another blow for Wolves. The

defender will now miss their next

league clash against Chelsea.

Nuno said: “I’m not upset with

him. Everybody makes mistakes.

What is important is you know

what you did.”

EVERTON (4-2-3-1): Pickford 7; Coleman

6, Keane 6, Mina 6, Digne 7; Gomes 7, Delph

7; Richarlison 8, Sigurdsson 7, Iwobi 7

(Bernard 76); Kean 6 (Calvert-Lewin 76).

Goals: Richarlison 5, 80, Iwobi 12.

WOLVES (3-5-2): Patricio 6;

Bennett 5, Coady 5, Boly 5;

Traore 7, Dendoncker 6, Neves

6 (Neto 84), Saiss 7 (Moutinho

59, 5), Vinagre 7; Jimenez 7,

Cutrone 6 (Jota 68, 6).

Goals: Saiss 9, Jimenez 75.

Sent off: Boly 90.

EVERTON v WOLVES

59 POSSESSION % 41

6 SHOTS ON TARGET 5

3 SHOTS OFF TARGET 1

7 CORNERS 7

1 OFFSIDES 2

12 FOULS 12

1 YELLOW CARDS 4

0 RED CARDS 1

Source: Opta

it could start to look like a very long

season indeed.

Either way, the gap between the

two teams looks narrower than it

has been for a while, although it

very much has the feel of – at best –

a third-place play-off.

Eriksen’s presence in the Spurs

starting line-up was less of a

surprise than Mauricio Pochettino’s

attempt to disguise his lack of right-

back options after a mixed summer

of transfer activity that has led to

rumours his love affair with Daniel

Levy is about to end. Davinson

Sanchez looked worryingly like the

winner of a competition to be a

right-back for a day – or the loser in

an awkward 4-2-4 formation that

invited Arsenal on to them.

Sure enough, the Gunners

enjoyed the majority of possession,

but their own defensive frailties

were exposed after just 10 minutes.

Son Heung-Min’s pass to Erik

Lamela took David Luiz out of

the equation far too easily, but the

ball was on the Argentinian’s

notoriously awful right foot. Bernd

Leno should have held on to his

tame shot but could only parry –

and Eriksen was there to tap in the

rebound, with a broad smile and,

unsurprisingly, no badge-kissing.

Leno’s handling was better when

stopping subsequent shots from

Eriksen and Son but when an

Eriksen free-kick also rebounded, in

the struggle to get the ball clear

Granit Xhaka rattled into Son for a

clear penalty.

Kane’s record-equalling 10th

derby goal came from the spot.

Hugo Lloris’s gloves, clearly made

of stickier stuff, were able to grab a

sharp Nicolas Pepe effort just before

the break and a free-kick from

Arsenal’s £72million record signing

two minutes later was also blocked.

With the Clock End howling that

the ricochet hit Danny Rose’s hand,

Spurs seemed so panicked about a

VAR review they forgot to mark

Alexandre Lacazette and he

skipped through to pull one back.

It was going to be a frantic second

half.

Lloris almost passed straight to

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on the

edge of his area, then made amends

by tipping Matteo Guendouzi’s shot

round the post. Sead Kolasinac’s

attempt to convert the corner

denied Aubameyang an easy tap-in.

Lloris tipped a shot from Dani

Ceballos over the bar but with the

defenders too static in front of him,

he was vulnerable. Sure enough,

Guendouzi made the pass and

Aubameyang stole in to level.

Kane rattled the woodwork in a

rare Tottenham attack but Arsenal

now looked more likely to win it.

And they thought they had beaten

Lloris again with a well-worked

winner from a free-kick, but VAR

confirmed the assistant referee’s

view that Kolasinac had strayed

offside in the build-up.

And the technology showed as

little interest as on-field referee

Martin Atkinson when Kane reacted

theatrically to a Sokratis shove.

Should it have been a penalty?

People will argue the rights and

wrongs as ever but undoubtedly a

draw was a fair result.

ARSENAL (4-3-3): Leno 6; Maitland-Niles 6, Sokratis

7, Luiz 6, Kolasinac 6; Torreira 6 (Ceballos 63, 6), Xhaka

6, Guendouzi 7; Pepe 6, Lacazette 7 (Mkhitaryan 67, 5),

Aubameyang 7. Goals: Lacazette 45, Aubameyang 71.

TOTTENHAM (4-2-4): Lloris 8; Sanchez 5, Alderweireld 6,

Vertonghen 6, Rose 5; Winks 7, Sissoko 6; Lamela 6 (Alli 60,

5), Kane 6, Son 7 (Lo Celso 79, 6), Eriksen 7. Goals: Eriksen

10, Kane 40 pen.

FOR ALSO-RANS

FIRING

BACK

Lacazette

scores

Arsenal’s

first, top,

and Kane

slots from

the spot

as Toffees striker gets through sticky patch

HEADS UP: Iwobi

enjoys his goal