{"id":346732,"date":"2026-03-15T00:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346732\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:42:08","slug":"max-dowman-how-arsenal-history-maker-stole-show-against-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346732\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Dowman: How Arsenal history-maker stole show against Everton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday’s match with Everton<\/a> looked like it was going to be a frustrating day at the office for the Gunners, who appeared to be set to miss their chance to extend their lead over Manchester City<\/a> at the top of the league.<\/p>\n

Their attack was not quite clicking and in the first half Arsenal<\/a> were denied a penalty when Kai Havertz tangled with Michael Keane in the penalty area.<\/p>\n

But with the scores level, Arteta turned to 16-year-old Dowman, alongside \u00a364m summer signing Viktor Gyokeres, and the youngster turned the game in his side’s favour.<\/p>\n

Dowman took the ball in dangerous areas and did not look fazed with the situation of the game as he tried to take on defenders at will.<\/p>\n

He played a huge part in the opening goal as it was his cross that Jordan Pickford misjudged before Gyokeres tapped the ball in.<\/p>\n

Then Dowman himself stole the show when he beat two defenders while Pickford was up for an Everton<\/a> corner as they chased an equaliser – and the teenager rolled the ball into the net to spark wild celebrations.<\/p>\n

“It was a great moment,” Arteta told Sky Sports. “Especially the way the goal built up and we had 10-15 seconds to really enjoy what was about to happen.<\/p>\n

“It was magical. On the bench and all the players together, jumping with the crowd. It was a beautiful day.<\/p>\n

“It is not only the goal that he scored, [Dowman] changed the game. Every time he got the ball, he makes things happen and we are more of a threat.<\/p>\n

“To do that at that age, in this context, with the pressure, the expectations to win the game – it’s just not normal.”<\/p>\n

Arteta – who has spoken of Dowman’s talents all season – was not surprised about the youngster’s showing during the vital win in the title race and said the way the 16-year-old had trained this week gave him a “gut feeling”.<\/p>\n

“It’s so organic for him, he doesn’t feel the pressure. He goes, gets the ball, stops on the ball,” Arteta said. <\/p>\n

“It’s natural for him, that’s the best thing, so just make sure he does what he feels.<\/p>\n

“When you have such a talent then I’m sure good things are going to happen. What we do is to create memories and create moments. <\/p>\n

“For many years, I think people who were in the stadium today will say ‘I was in the Emirates that day when that kid at 16 scored a goal at such an important stage of the season’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday’s match with Everton looked like it was going to be a frustrating day at the office for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-346732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}