Konsa and Gabriel secure 2-0 Arsenal win over Everton in north London

Arsenal beat Everton 2-0 in a Premier League match in north London on 24 October 2026, with Ezri Konsa and Gabriel Magalhães on the scoresheet.

Konsa opened the scoring from a seventh-minute corner — his first goal for Arsenal — and Gabriel headed a second early in the second half to seal the victory. The result came after Manchester City’s defeat by Aston Villa earlier in the day, offering Arsenal a chance to move level on points at the top.

The match carried extra narrative for David Moyes on his 14th visit to this stadium as Everton manager and for Arsenal as reigning Premier League champions. Everton arrived having won only twice in 35 matches at this ground and were without Jarrad Branthwaite and Jack Grealish, who was ruled out with illness; the game added to Moyes’s concerns after confirmation that the club’s American owners want out.

Arsenal’s opener arrived from a sequence of corners when Gabriel made the crucial first contact at the near post and Jordan Pickford pushed the ball onto the crossbar; Vitaliy Mykolenko’s under-pressure clearance then allowed Konsa to ram the loose ball home. Arsenal had ten corners in the first half and repeatedly tested Everton from set pieces.

Mikel Arteta rotated his side with five changes after Wednesday’s exertions against Bayern Munich, but Martin Ødegaard and Declan Rice continued their records of starting every Premier League game this season. Bukayo Saka was withdrawn with a thigh injury that could sideline the England forward until mid-December, and Tyrique George curled a chance wide as Everton tried to respond.

Eberechi Eze and Noni Madueke each spurned opportunities in front of the England manager, Thomas Tuchel; Madueke, who had been left out of the last squad, was inches away with an instinctive right-footed effort from the edge of the box on the half-hour mark. A lapse by Ben White just before half-time almost presented Everton with an equaliser, but Thierno Barry could not get sufficient contact to get the ball past David Raya.

In the second half Merlin Röhl’s cross nearly deceived Raya and Viktor Gyökeres, making his first Premier League start of the season and still without a goal for his club, looked laboured before being penalised by the referee Tony Harrington for a foul on James Tarkowski; Arteta received a booking for protesting. Arsenal turned to their bench and, less than 60 seconds after coming on, Gabriel headed in at the back post from a Ben White cross — White “offered Tuchel a timely reminder of his qualities with a brilliant cross” — and Moyes joined Arteta in the referee’s notebook. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall then saw a header fizz just wide of Raya’s post.

The victory leaves Arsenal breathing down Manchester City in the title race after City’s earlier defeat by Aston Villa, while Everton suffer a second successive loss.