Saka-inspired Arsenal melt Toffees and restore five-point lead over City

At some point in the first half, it seemed like the Gunners could choke themselves with those hard-to-swallow Toffees, but then Bukayo Saka stepped up and singlehandedly turned the tables, leading his side to a 4-0 (2-0) victory. In the span of just six minutes, between the minute 40 and the stoppage time, the 21-year-old forward scored and assisted for a comfortable 2-0 lead.

Seconds later, it was time for the half-time break, and Sean Dyche's boys were facing a massive deficit despite being an evenly good side for the vast part of the half. Both goals they conceded came after a pair of defensive mistakes. For the first one, Mykolenko was too far from Saka, allowing him not only to get hold of the ball but to put himself in a decent shooting-range position to fire. And he struck in a magnificent way to put his side in front.

A few minutes later, the same attacker smelled another opportunity as Idrissa Gana Gueye made an unforgivable error, losing the ball to Saka on the edge of the box. Gabriel Martinelli made the most of that, and albeit the goal was firstly disallowed, it stood eventually as the VAR review showed he was onside at the moment of Saka's pass.

Those two goals have literally eased off the pressure from table-topers, while the strugglers had to settle with the loss even before the beginning of the second half. Odegaard was there to definitely kill the game with his side's third goal, following Trossards wonderful run and cross, and Martinelli sealed the match with a perfect tap-in for 4-0.

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Arsenal - Everton 4-0 (2-0)

/Saka 40, Martinelli 45+1, 80, Odegaard 70/

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/Van Dijk 73, Salah 77/