{"id":471302,"date":"2026-03-12T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471302\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:47:07","slug":"will-evertons-formidable-away-form-upset-arsenals-title-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471302\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Everton&#8217;s formidable away form upset Arsenal&#8217;s title challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another key element to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/everton\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Everton<\/a>&#8216;s resilience on the road has been the outstanding form of individual players such as Pickford, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Iliman Ndiaye, but Osman believes that James Garner deserves particular praise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old has played at right-back and left-back this season but has shone in recent matches in his preferred central midfield role. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Garner comfortably tops the Toffees&#8217; metrics this season for everything from touches and tackles, to chances created and expected assists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Garner is a throwback, and a very pleasant one, to an all-round midfielder,&#8221; said Osman, who made 437 appearances for the club in midfield between 2003 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He wants to defend, wants to be competitive, wants to get from box to box, wants to create goals. I am such an admirer of his.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He sets the tone for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/everton\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Everton<\/a> in and out of possession. He&#8217;s one of the first names, if not the first name on David Moyes&#8217; team sheet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another key element to Everton&#8216;s resilience on the road has been the outstanding form of individual players such&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}