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.
