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32 min: Ethan Nwaneri drills the ball across the face of the Brentford goal from the right and it’s cleared by Kevin Schade. Arsenal win another corner, take it short and after a Nwaneri scamper along the byline, he’s unable to pick out Leandro Trossard with his pullback.
29 min: Christian Norgaard is booked for a kind of scissors tackle from behind on Martinelli which has assorted Arsenal players, coaching staff and fans appealing for a stiffer punishment. VAR decide there’s no need to upgrade the booking to a red card and that seems fair enough to me. Other opinions are almost certainly available.
GOAL DISALLOWED: Arsenal 0-0 Brentford As I suspected, Tierney was offside when Nwaneri crossed the ball his way from the right. His somewhat sheepish celebrations suggested he knew that to be the case.
GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Brentford Arsenal lead! Or do they? Nwaneri’s delivery is excellent but Yoane Wissa heads the ball out for yet another corner. The youngster sends the ball drifting across the edge of the six-yard box but it finds it’s way towards the touchline. Arsenal recycle the ball, Nwaneri gets another cross into the box and Kieran Tierney nods home. I’m fairly sure he’s offside …
22 min: Damsgaard plays a crossfield ball to Mbeumo, who plays a first-time volley into the path of Ajer, who had shown Martinelli a clean pair of heels. His shot is saved by Raya but that was a decent chance at the end of an eyecatching move.
20 min: Nwaneri takes the corner short to Zinchenko, who plays it inside to Jorginho. It looks like a routine from the training ground and … well, suffice to stay it probably should have stayed there for a while longer. Brentford clear their lines after Arsenal fail to get the ball into their penalty area.
16 min: Arsenal begin to assert their dominance, patiently pressing and probing for an opening on the edge of the final third. Brentford win the ball and try to break upfield, but once again William Saliba is on hand to glide back and prevent Kevin Schade finding a route towards the Arsenal goal.
12 min: Tierney squanders possession out by the far touchline, passing the ball straight to Wissa near the halfway line. Brentford win a corner after good work by Keane Lewis-Potter, the ball going out off Partey.
10 min: Arsenal win their first corner of the game after Martinelli has a cross-shot from a tight angle put behind by Mark Flekken. Brentford half-clear the corner but the ball is recycled and crossed to the far post by Rice. Partey is unable to pick out a teammate with his header back across the penalty area.
5 min: Arsenal win an early free-kick deep inside their own half. It’s a mite too far out for even Declan Rice to have a crack so David Raya, formerly of the Brentford parish, gets it launched upfield.
2 min: Kieran Tierney, making his first Premier League start for Arsenal since May 2023, gets an early touch on his eighth league appearance of the season.
Arsenal v Brentford is go ... 1 min: Following a quick knee to remind everyone that football is for everyone and there’s no room for racism or any other form of discrimination in the game, Brentford get the ball rolling. They may not be as exalted as Arsenal’s midweek Champions League opponents but I fancy them to give their hosts more of a game. Game on!
From the back: Kristoffer Ajer, Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa warm up for Brentford. Photograph: David Klein/ReutersArsenal goalkeeper David Raya gets his sidewinder on during the warm-up. Photograph: David Price/Arsenal FC/Getty ImagesHas Rice been dining out all week? Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/ReutersShare Updated at 18.21 CEST
Today’s Premier League results
Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace
Brighton 2-2 Leicester City
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Everton
Southampton 0-3 Aston Villa
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Pictured celebrating the second free-kick he scored against Real Madrid, Declan Rice is the cover star of today’s match programme. Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty ImagesA peek inside the Arsenal dressing-room prior to this evening’s match against Brentford. Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty ImagesToday’s match officials
Referee: Simon Hooper.
Assistants: Adrian Holmes and Simon Long.
Fourth official: Will Finnie.
VAR: James Bell.
Assistant VAR: Nick Greenhalgh.
Simon Hooper leads today’s team of match officials at the Emirates Stadium. Photograph: Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty ImagesThose teams: Unsurprisingly, Mikel Arteta makes five changes to the side that lined up against Real Madrid, with Jurrien Timber, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Mikel Merino all dropping to the bench for this evening’s game.
Kieran Tierney, Jorginho, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Leandro Trossard and EthanNwaneri come into the side that will face Brentford this evening. Jorginho will captain the side in the absence of Martin Odegaard. There’s no place for Ben White in the matchday squad, the defender having picked up a knock in training.
Thomas Frank makes just one chanfe to the Bees side that drew with Chelsea last time out. Vitaly Yanelt comes into midfield, with Yehor Yarmoliuk making way. Plagued with injury all season and yet to make his debut for Brentford after signing from Gremio last August, the 19-year-old winger Gustavo Nunes is on the bench after recovering from a back injury.
Brazilian winger Gustavo Nunes has yet to make his debut for Brentford after signing from Gremio for £10m plus add-ons. Photograph: Carla Carniel/ReutersArsenal v Brentford line-ups Arsenal: Raya, Partey, Saliba, Kiwior, Tierney, Jorginho, Zinchenko, Rice, Nwaneri, Martinelli, Trossard.
Subs: Neto, Timber, Lewis-Skelly, Henry-Francis, Odegaard, Saka, Merino, Butler-Oyedeji, Sterling.
Brentford: Flekken; Ajer, Collins, Van den Berg, Lewis-Potter; Norgaard, Janelt, Damsgaard; Schade, Wissa, Mbeumo
Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Mee, Yarmoliuk, Konak, Kayode, Nunes
Early team news Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka may be rested after picking up knocks in the Real Madrid game, a state of affairs that could lead to Jorginho and Ethan Nwaneri getting starts. Raheem Sterling is also available after missing out on the Real Madrid game through suspension.
Gabriel, Kai Havertz, Riccardo Calafiori, Gabriel Jesus and Takehiro Tomiyasu all remain sidelined, although Mikel Arteta revealed yesterday that Havertz is likely to return from his hamstring injury before the end of the season.
For Brentford, Rico Henry is available for selection after returning from the hamstring injury that has kept him sidelined since January and could make what would be only his third appearance of the season. Fabio Carvalho, Aaron Hickey, Gustavo Nunes, Igor Thiago and Josh Dasilva all remain out.
Kai Havertz is likely to return before the end of the season as he steps up his recovery from the hamstring injury he suffered during Arsenal’s winter warm weather training camp in Dubai. Photograph: Jon Super/APShare Updated at 17.34 CEST
Premier League: Arsenal v Brentford High on the hog after their surprisingly emphatic Champions League quarter-final first leg win over Real Madrid, Arsenal host Brentford as they attempt to maintain their apparently forlorn pursuit of table-toppers Liverpool, who lead them by 11 points in the Premier League with just seven rounds of fixtures left to go.
Twelfth in the table with little left to play for beyond pride, Brentford go into this game having taken just five points from the past 15 available but will be hopeful of beating a side with more than one eye on Wednesday’s more important assignment at the Bernabeu. Kick-off at the Emirates is at 5.30pm (BST) but we’ll have team news and build-up in the meantime.
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