Arsenal have missed out on the chance to top the Premier League table after letting a one-goal lead slip to lose 2-1 against Everton at Goodison Park.
The Gunners took the lead through a deflected Alexis Sanchez free kick on Merseyside, before goals from Seamus Coleman and Ashley Williams turned the game on its head.
Defeat for the visitors ends their 14-match unbeaten run in the top flight stretching back to the opening weekend, meaning that Chelsea remain three clear at the summit with a game in hand.
It looked like being the same old story for the Toffees 20 minutes in when, after Phil Jagielka wiped out Francis Coquelin on the edge of the box, Alexis Sanchez sent a free kick past Maarten Stekelenburg via a big deflection off Ashley Williams.
The breakthrough goal for Everton did arrive before the break courtesy of Seamus Coleman, who simply drifted into the box and got on the end of fellow full-back Leighton Baines’s left-sided cross, delicately heading the ball into the bottom corner of the net to level things up on Merseyside.
Alex Iwobi and Olivier Giroud, who has five goals in his last six against Everton, were introduced, but it was the Toffees who looked the more likely to find a second over the next 10 minutes.
Iwobi did send a shot into the side-netting soon after, but it was still Everton who looked the more confident of the two sides and they were rewarded for their positive attitude late on.
More late drama was to follow, as Jagielka was shown a second yellow late on before Arsenal had two shots blocked on the line in quick succession right at the death, with Everton doing enough to pick up just a second win in 11 and maintain their impressive form on home soil.
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