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  • FT: Newcastle United 1-1 West Ham - Wilson opens scoring after Willock goal ruled out; Paqueta levels

  • FT: Aston Villa 2-4 Leicester - Watkins opens scoring & Souttar own goal; Maddison, Iheanacho, Tete & Praet for visitors

  • FT: Brentford 3-0 Southampton - Mee puts hosts in front, Mbeumo doubles lead & Jensen adds third

  • FT: Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 AFC Bournemouth - Mitoma with late goal

  • FT: Manchester United 2-1 Crystal Palace - Fernandes penalty, Rashford makes it two; Schlupp responds after Casemiro sent off

  • FT: Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0 Liverpool - Matip with own goal, Dawson doubles lead & Neves gets third

  • FT: Everton 1-0 Arsenal - Tarkowski heads winner

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  1. Pick of the statspublished at 11:50 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    ArsenalImage source, Getty Images
    • Everton have won three of their past four Premier League games against Arsenal, as many as they had in their previous 26 (D7 L16).
    • Arsenal have won 99 of their 202 league games against Everton (D43 L60) and could become the first team in English league history to register 100 victories against one opponent.
    • Everton are winless in eight Premier League games (D2 L6), last having a longer such run between August and October 1994 (12). They've lost their past four home league games - only once before have they suffered more consecutive defeats on home soil (seven between April and September 1958).
    • Only Newcastle (three) have conceded the first goal in fewer Premier League games than Arsenal this season (four). On those four occasions, the Gunners have taken an average of just 17 minutes to find an equaliser.
  2. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 11:49 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Tweet #bbcfootball, text 81111 (UK only - standard rates apply) or WhatsApp 03301231826

    Aidan: Things at Everton were nowhere near this bad under Kenwright. It's not fair to lay this at his door. His only mistake was selling to Moshiri then hanging around while he run the club into the ground.

  3. Huge protest outside Goodisonpublished at 11:48 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    Shamoon Hafez
    BBC Sport at Goodison Park

    FansImage source, BBC Sport

    There's a huge protest currently going on outside the ground, with thousands of Everton fans marching down Goodison Road carrying banners and lighting flares.

    "Kenwright and co, it's time to go," is one of the chants ringing out.

    Fans 2Image source, BBC Sport
  4. Rolling the Dychepublished at 11:47 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    Media caption,

    The Football News Show: Can Sean Dyche appease frustrated Everton fans?

    As Sean Dyche prepares for his first game as Everton manager at home to Arsenal, former Tottenham and Fulham midfielder Michael Brown and Everton fan Briony Bragg join The Football News Show to discuss supporter protests and what it will take to get fans back onside.

    Brown also explains how Dyche can get results from his struggling squad, after the Toffees were the only Premier League club not to make a signing in January.

    Watch the full episode - all about Everton - on BBC iPlayer here

  5. Guardiola and Klopp on Chelsea spendingpublished at 11:45 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

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    Watch Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp on Chelsea spending

  6. ‘Why no striker?’ – ‘patience’ needed at ‘toothless’ Bluespublished at 11:43 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    FT: Chelsea 0-0 Fulham

    Chelsea have spent more than £500m on 17 new players during the past two transfer windows but the lack of a clinical striker was made painfully clear in a 0-0 draw with Fulham on Friday.

    Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Chelsea's only fit number nine, has been left out of the club's Champions League squad and did not feature at all against the Cottagers as a number of big-money arrivals made their debuts.

    Argentina's World Cup-winning midfielder Enzo Fernandez, who signed for a British record sum of £107m on deadline day, impressed but that lack of quality in the final third told as Chelsea's top-four hopes were dealt another blow.

    Graham Potter's side sit ninth in the table, nine points behind fourth-placed Manchester United, having managed just one win in 2023, scoring three goals in their seven games since the turn of the year.

    BBC Radio 5 Live pundit Clinton Morrison said he is "surprised" that Chelsea still have no number nine while Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville insisted the club's owners need to show patience with Potter.

    After the draw with Fulham, the Chelsea boss himself pointed to their opponents as a sign of what a side can become when they are given time to develop.

    "Fulham have been together a while," he told BBC Sport. "We're at a different stage of that - players coming back from injury and new players.

    "We need time to settle everything down. We were missing the connection, fluidity and confidence that comes from knowing each other."

    Read more of our feature article on Chelsea after last night's draw with Fulham

  7. Money doesn't make you happypublished at 11:42 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    FT: Chelsea 0-0 Fulham

    Enzo FernandezImage source, Getty Images

    We've already had one Premier League game from this round of fixtures, with Chelsea taking on Fulham on Friday night.

    It wasn't the best of nights for the Blues and all their new big-money signings, with the Cottagers holding firm to claim a very impressive goalless draw.

    British record signing Enzo Fernandez made his Chelsea debut but could not help his new side claim only their second win of 2023.

    Read the report here.

  8. Gunner be toughpublished at 11:40 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    So, Dyche would probably want a nice, easy game to start his Everton reign. A match against a side struggling down the bottom of the table to try and get off to a confidence-boosting win.

    Not a chance.

    Step forward Arsenal, uber-confident Premier League leaders with only one league loss all season and currently on a run of 13 top-flight matches without defeat. Their last two games - wins over Tottenham and Manchester United.

  9. Dyche back in the gamepublished at 11:38 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    Sean DycheImage source, Getty Images

    Today, Sean Dyche gets his first crack of the whip as Everton boss, and his first Premier League game since Burnley's 2-0 loss to Norwich on 10 April last year.

    Toffees fans will be hoping they get the prime Dyche that kept Burnley in the top-flight against the odds for four seasons running and also had the temerity to take them into Europe.

    His final season at the Clarets wasn't his finest hour, with him winning just four games before he was sacked with nine league games left.

    His final win as Burnley boss was actually against Everton - a 3-2 victory at Turf Moor, when the Toffees looked certain to be heading down themselves prior to a late-season salvage job.

  10. Blue dayspublished at 11:36 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    Everton fans with bannerImage source, Getty Images

    Where do you start with Everton?

    What a mess.

    With the team struggling and the relationship between fans and the board at breaking point, the Toffees sack Frank Lampard.

    Then they conduct a muddled recruitment process for his successor which includes candidates as different as Marcelo Bielsa and Sean Dyche - the former seeing his offer to take on the Under 21s until the end of the season, before then taking charge being rejected.

    In comes Dyche, but they strangely don't announce it for a few days.

    Just when it seems that things can't get much, they sell Anthony Gordon and chuck in a signing-free deadline day at the end of a window in which pretty much every other club has thrown around cash with wild abandon.

    Can it get any worse? Unfortunately for Blues fans, yes it can.

  11. Postpublished at 11:35 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    That protest at Goodison is now in full swing. There's a few thousand now marching behind the aforementioned banner towards the ground. These lot are already furious. Imagine how toxic it could get if Arsenal score early?

  12. Calm before the storm?published at 11:33 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    Shamoon Hafez
    BBC Sport at Goodison Park

    It was a subdued scene outside Goodison Park earlier today, with fans milling around but no signs of any protests. Yet.

    Sean Dyche takes charge of Everton for the first time and looking at some of the landmarks pictured outside the ground, it abruptly stops way back in 2014 when the club broke the transfer record to sign Romelu Lukaku.

    Will Dyche be able to add, '2023 - performed a miracle to avoid relegation' at the end of the campaign?

    GoodisonImage source, BBC Sport
  13. 'A board full of liars'published at 11:32 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    The protests have begun at Goodison Park. A couple of fans have held a banner up across a junction outside the ground that reads 'A board full of liars'. Plenty of others have joined them to support the sentiment.

    Definitely not going to have gone down well with the people in cars waiting to get on with their Saturday morning. Everton might have a board full of liars, but they've got some shelves to buy at B&Q.

  14. Team news - Dyche starts McNeil and Doucourepublished at 11:30 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Everton v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)

    Shamoon Hafez
    BBC Sport at Goodison Park

    .Image source, Opta

    New Everton boss Sean Dyche has made two changes from Frank Lampard's last game in-charge - a 2-0 defeat at West Ham two weeks ago.

    Dyche has gone for someone he knows as Burnley man Dwight McNeil comes into the side and there's a clean slate for Abdoulaye Doucoure too, restored to the team after a reported falling out, external with Lampard.

    Yerry Mina and Demarai Gray make way.

    Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Coady, Tarkowski, Mykolenko, Doucoure, Onana, Gueye, Iwobi, McNeil, Calvert-Lewin.

    .Image source, Opta

    The big hitters all return for Arsenal after being rested in last week's FA Cup exit against Manchester City - there are six changes in all.

    Aaron Ramsdale, Ben White, William Saliba, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Gabriel Martinelli and skipper Martin Odegaard all come back.

    Matt Turner, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Rob Holding, Kieran Tierney, Fabio Vieira and January signing Leandro Trossard drop out.

    Arsenal XI: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Martinelli, Partey, Xhaka, Saka, Odegaard, Nketiah.

  15. Follow football on the BBCpublished at 11:28 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    We've got all your live text needs covered today. We'll be running this bad boy, chucking words at your eyes until the last kick has occurred and the final word spoken from all those involved.

    But if you want to explore other ways to take your football on the BBC, we have options for you.

    BBC Radio 5 Live will be all over the football from 12:00 GMT, with Mark Chapman on hosting duties and build-up to the 15:00 kick-offs, with updates from Everton v Arsenal. Their first commentary game is Manchester United v Crystal Palace, but you'll get the latest from around the grounds, up and down the country too.

    After a brief interruption from the Six Nations, 5 Live returns to football with second-half commentary of Newcastle v West Ham.

    There's also plenty of local radio options for games.

    On BBC telly, there's Football Focus at 12:00 and Final Score at 16:30 on BBC One. The latter is also available earlier via red button.

    Most of these options are also options to listen to and view from this very page, using the play buttons near the top.

  16. Today's top-flight actionpublished at 11:23 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    It is quite a bumper Saturday as regards Premier League fixtures, with seven of the things taking place over the course of the day.

    We start with a right old game, as crisis-club Everton take on league-leaders Arsenal at what could be a spicy Goodison Park. A lot more on that in a bit.

    We've got five games at 15:00 GMT, including in-form Manchester United hosting Palace and struggling Liverpool going to Wolves, with both teams desperately in need of a win. With Southampton and Bournemouth also in action, it means all five of the teams at the bottom are involved today.

    That also includes West Ham, who go to high-flying League Cup finalists Newcastle in the evening kick-off.

  17. Further reading...published at 11:20 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Just before we move on to all the actual football taking place, the BBC Sport website is awash with transfer deadline day content if you want to go down that rabbit hole. This includes:

  18. Money, money, moneypublished at 11:18 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    Well, that was all a bit wild wasn't it?

    Is wild the right word? Extortionate, obscene, distasteful - these are other options to describe what Premier League clubs spent during the last month.

    But then it's hardly a surprise is it? Top-flight football in England is immune to the cost of living crisis gripping the country, instead operating in a fantasy land where eight-figure (and in one case nine-figure) sums are routine, tossed around like it confetti.

    Such is the fear of missing out on the Champions League for some clubs, or dropping out of the division for others, they will turn to the quickest fix they can find.

    Let's be honest, when spending by English top-flight clubs accounts for 79% of the total across Europe's 'big five' football leagues, something is broken.

    Anyway, we're not here to dwell on that. There are games of football involving all these shiny new toys to be played and we're here to talk to you through them.

  19. Bang for your buck?published at 11:15 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2023

    A total spend of £815m...

    Pedro Porro, Cody Gakpo, Mykhaylo Mudryk and Anthony GordonImage source, Getty Images

    The British transfer record broken...

    Enzo FernandezImage source, Getty Images

    More money spent by Chelsea alone in January than the combined total of all clubs in the Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1...

    Carlo AncelottiImage source, Getty Images

    Well lads, you've no excuse now not to keep us thoroughly entertained!