Everton 1-0 Arsenal: Three big mistakes made by Arteta
The league leaders struggled to cope with the intensity of the home side at Goodison Park
Arsenal missed the chance to go eight points clear at the top of the Premier League table on Saturday following a shock 1-0 defeat to a Sean Dyche-inspired Everton.
Though this was just their second Premier League defeat this season, it was avoidable if Mikel Arteta had deplored the right tactics for the game at Goodison Park.
The league leaders struggled to cope with the intensity of the home side at Goodison Park and struggled to break them down in a goalless first half. They were ultimately undone by a typical Dyche goal - a header from a corner.
James Tarkowski rose the highest on the hour to give his former Burnley boss a massive three points in his first game in charge. Mikel Arteta, meanwhile, will be ruing the following four things he got wrong.
Daily Star examines three of the big mistakes that cost Arsenal against Everton,
Not testing Pickford enough
In the first half the Gunners had 75% of possession but just two shots on target, neither of which put Jordan Pickford to work in the Everton net.
Bukayo Saka's goal-bound volley was cleared off the line by Conor Coady, but Eddie Nketiah really should've at least found the target with his close-range effort.
While Arsenal have played some of, if not the best football in the league this season, sometimes it doesn't hurt to fire a few efforts on goal out of nowhere.
And it was a quiet second half too for Pickford who will be wondering how he faced just one more effort at him after the break.
Putting Odegaard on Tarkowski
You'd have to imagine Arteta had planned who's man would be who at set-pieces given Everton's physicality - so it beggars belief that Martin Odegaard was marking Tarkowski.
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, the Everton centre-back brushed him off as he steamed through to head home the opener.
Whoever's decision it was, it was a bad one, and it could well prove costly in the Premier League title race.
Losing the midfield battle
You wouldn't have expected the team starting the day 19th in the Premier League table to control the play more than the one in 1st, but that's how the game unfolded.
The usually imperious Thomas Partey was off the boil, understandably so in fairness on his perhaps premature return from injury, while Granit Xhaka was also far from his best.
They were bettered by the Everton trio of Idrissa Gueye, Amadou Onana and Abdoulaye Doucoure, who stifled their impact on the match.
