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It took 80 minutes for Carlo Ancelotti to breathe calmly in his technical area. Your new technical area. The Italian coach was premiering at the local bench in Goodison Park, on a Boxing Day full of debuts. Mikel Arteta also directed for the first time to Arsenal , although hopefully disparate. The London team, despite the final effort, could not overcome a Bournemouth who defended the tie almost under the sticks.

Striker Calvert-Lewin gave oxygen to an Everton that deserved more (1-0). Much more. Up to 20 shots accumulated on the goal defended by Pope , who drew several gloves of great merit. The former Barcelona player Digne , who acted as a left lane (Ancelotti arranged a five-member defense against the problems of containment of the team), was a dagger by his side, proposing continuous centers to the heart of the area. With this system of three centrals and two long sides, the former coach of Naples sought to nurture his headers, Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin , of aerial balloons. And he achieve it. Thus came the decisive goal of the very young 22-year-old tip, who threw himself into the grass to connect a deadly stub.

Arsenal, far from Europe

Less fluency showed Arsenal (1-1). Arteta does not want to play as Manchester City, a team where he acted as second coach until just a few days ago. The London team has other virtues. It lives on the speed of its tips, specifically Aubameyang , which was key to achieving the equalization. The Gabonese is much more comfortable in the demarcation of striker and not in the left wing, where Unai Emery insisted on placing him. On his third consecutive arrival, about game time, he finally drilled the Bournemouth net in a very strange shot.

Earlier, Gosling advanced to the home team with a shot at goal in the penalty spot. Arteta's adventure began with clouds. The Spaniard lived the restless part, constantly relocating his players. Especially to an apathetic Ozil Mesut in pressure. The German remains in his irregular role, unable to come into play when transitions occur in the match. The departure of Nicolas Pepé at the time of play improved the task of the London team, which for the first time began to find comfortable on the grass. Until Aubameyang found a loose ball in the area to close the tie.

A lot of work has Arteta in an Arsenal that glimpses far away European positions. In fact, it is closer to the decline than the Champions League, which closes Chelsea in fourth position. The return of Dani Ceballos after his muscular injury in the ischia, presumably for the first game of 2020, will mean a level jump for the center of the Gunner field, much in need of creation and of a player who brings freshness in the ball out.

Trace Tottenham, lose Chelsea

In the early morning duel of Boxing Day, Tottenham de Mourinho got rid of Brighton, which is the sixth victory in nine games since the Portuguese took over the bench. And not without suffering. Because the London team had to overcome Adam Webster's initial goal. He did it in the second half, completely overturned. Harry Kane , to whom the VAR annulled a previous goal by a millimetric out of play, put the tables and Dele Alli , with a beautiful volley to the squad, sentenced a remarkable function of the Tottenham, which continues to climb by leaps and bounds in the Premier League .

Southampton starred in the surprise of the day at Stamford Bridge (0-2). Well organized in his field, he hobbled a Chelsea that at no time disturbed McCarthy's arc and missed Mason Mount, a starter starter by surprise. The blues pichichi, Tammy Abraham , barely had two shy approaches. No danger. Obafemi in the first half and Redmond in the absence of 20 minutes chafed the Christmas party of the Frank Lampard box, which has only added two wins in the last five games of the English championship.

In the rest of the matches that started early in the afternoon, Sheffield United and Watford tied in a match where there were hardly any chances (1-1); Aston Villa surpassed the Norwich thanks to a decisive stubbornness of Hourihane (1-0) and the Crystal Palace traced at the last minute (2-1) to a West Ham that stays at the edge of the descent, with a point of advantage precisely over the Aston Villa.

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