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03/14 14:39 CDT Arsenal grabs late goals to beat Everton and stay in control of
Premier League title race
Arsenal grabs late goals to beat Everton and stay in control of Premier League
title race
By STEVE DOUGLAS
AP Sports Writer
Viktor Gyokeres scored in the 89th minute and 16-year-old Max Dowman dribbled
from halfway for the second goal as Arsenal beat Everton 2-0 to stay in control
of the Premier League title race on Saturday.
It dealt a psychological blow to second-place Manchester City, which headed
into the late game at West Ham trailing Arsenal by 10 points.
A breathtaking finish at Emirates Stadium saw Dowman, an English soccer prodigy
who is still at school, dribble around an Everton player inside his own half
and race clear to tap into an empty net. Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford was
stranded upfield having gone up for a corner.
It was Dowman's first goal in his third Premier League appearance and he became
the competition's youngest ever scorer.
Arsenal toiled before Gyokeres' late intervention, which came when a cross by
Dowman from the right was missed by Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, struck
the midriff of Arsenal substitute Piero Hincapie and bounced across the
goalmouth. Gyokeres applied the finishing touch from close range.
City has two games in hand over Arsenal, which was last English champion in
2004, in its bid to reclaim the title.
Across London, Chelsea lost 1-0 to Newcastle thanks to an 18th-minute goal by
Anthony Gordon.
Chelsea stayed in fifth place but could be overtaken by Liverpool, which hosts
struggling Tottenham on Sunday.
Burnley draws and facing relegation Burnley is running out of time and hope in the Premier League. A 0-0 home draw with Bournemouth on Saturday left next-to-last Burnley --- one of the many U.S.-owned teams in England's top division --- eight points from safety with just eight games remaining this season and facing an immediate return to the Championship. Burnley has won just four of its 30 league games.
Bizarre winner for Brighton Sunderland, another promoted team, appears to be safe from relegation but is limping toward the end of the season after a third straight home loss -- this time to Brighton 1-0. The only goal was a bizarre one, with Yankuba Minteh's mis-hit cross from the byline somehow squeezing in at the near post in the 58th minute at the Stadium of Light. Sunderland hadn't lost at home until a defeat to Liverpool on Feb. 11. Since then, it has lost to Fulham and now Brighton. ___ Steve Douglas is at https://twitter.com/sdouglas80 ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
Burnley draws and facing relegation Burnley is running out of time and hope in the Premier League. A 0-0 home draw with Bournemouth on Saturday left next-to-last Burnley --- one of the many U.S.-owned teams in England's top division --- eight points from safety with just eight games remaining this season and facing an immediate return to the Championship. Burnley has won just four of its 30 league games.
Bizarre winner for Brighton Sunderland, another promoted team, appears to be safe from relegation but is limping toward the end of the season after a third straight home loss -- this time to Brighton 1-0. The only goal was a bizarre one, with Yankuba Minteh's mis-hit cross from the byline somehow squeezing in at the near post in the 58th minute at the Stadium of Light. Sunderland hadn't lost at home until a defeat to Liverpool on Feb. 11. Since then, it has lost to Fulham and now Brighton. ___ Steve Douglas is at https://twitter.com/sdouglas80 ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
