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Arsenal injury update after the Everton win
Arsenal injury update: Mikel Arteta said substitute Riccardo Calafiori picked up a "slight" issue during the 2-0 Premier League win over Everton at the Emirates Stadium. Gabriel also went down in the second half and required medical treatment before he headed the second goal.
Arteta said the alarm came from the reaction of the players around Gabriel rather than from the way he fell. The Brazil centre-back told staff he wanted to continue and scored on 68 minutes.
Arsenal moved level on points with the leaders Manchester City. Both goals came from centre-backs, and the opener was the club's first set-piece goal of the season.
Arteta's second booking and the footage file
Referee Tony Harrington booked Arteta in the second half for leaving his technical area. It was his second yellow card of the season. One more triggers a one-match touchline ban.
Arteta said he is compiling clips of rival managers who repeatedly leave their areas without sanction. He joked about installing sensors on the sideline. He did not name the manager he was describing.
"I do have to be careful, yeah. I'm going to put sensors there! There are other managers (doing it), there are managers that have the record in the league: 36 times in 10 minutes they leave the touchline, no yellows. So I am clipping all of that so I have a massive storage of images, so if somebody comes to me (I can say) I'm not in the record yet, somebody else has the record."
The source report does not identify the manager, club or fixture behind the 36-leave figure. Managers are required to stay inside the marked technical area during play, and repeated breaches are a bookable offence.
Two centre-back events decide the match
- 7th minute: Martin Odegaard takes a corner. Ezri Konsa converts from close range. Arsenal's first set-piece goal of the season.
- 68th minute: Gabriel heads in the second after returning from treatment.
Konsa joined from Aston Villa in the summer and this was his first goal for the club. Arteta said the defender arrived without a pre-season and still built a settled partnership with Gabriel.
"Unbelievable. He's come to a huge club like Arsenal with no pre-season when (William) Saliba is here, with other players that are already here. And to position yourself in that manner, with that naturality and performing at the level that he's doing and building already a chemistry and a balance with Gabi that seems so solid, it's very, very difficult to do and we are really lucky to have him."
Everton's slow start and second straight defeat
David Moyes said Everton never reached the level needed to win. The early goal left his side chasing the game. Everton lost 2-0 at Chelsea last weekend; this was a second successive defeat.
"Not an awful lot, really. I don't have big thoughts on it. I just felt we didn't really get to a level which I think would have been good enough to win on the day. We gave away a goal very early which meant we were chasing. I felt we'd got a bit better in the second half, got a bit back into it a little bit more, got a bit closer to Arsenal and then they come up with the second goal. Some good stuff on the defensive side of it. I didn't feel we did enough on the attacking part of the game."
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Arteta's disciplinary record is the immediate variable: a third yellow card of the season removes him from the touchline for one match. Calafiori's "slight" issue has no stated severity or return date in the source report.
Gabriel's condition after treatment is unconfirmed beyond his return to the pitch and his goal. Arsenal sit level on points with Manchester City.
The original report is from skysports.com.
