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| Arsenal v Swansea City: Premier League – live! | Arsenal v Swansea City: Premier League – live! |
| (about 1 hour later) | |
| 7.58pm GMT | |
| 19:58 | |
| 11 min: Sanchez has found the woodwork with a cracker of a shot off the far post that repelled into Fabianski’s hands. He actually missed the first attempt off the volley but drove a screamer toward the goal on the second attempt. Very nearly 1-0 to the hosts. | |
| 7.55pm GMT | |
| 19:55 | |
| 8 min: Lazy ball by a Swansea midfielder in the final third leads to a swift Arsenal counter-attack. It’s worked up the left side, but ultimately the hosts are flagged offside. It was Monreal who was off. | |
| 7.54pm GMT | |
| 19:54 | |
| 7 min: Another chance for Giroud in the area, but his right-footed shot caroms off a defender. Gunners doing well to force the action early. Elsewhere in London, West Ham have gone up 1-0 on Spurs. | |
| 7.52pm GMT | |
| 19:52 | |
| 5 min: The ball is through again to Giroud in the area, but none of his team-mates are in the immediate vicinity and his backheel to no one in particular is vacuumed up by the opponents. | |
| 7.50pm GMT | |
| 19:50 | |
| 3 min: Giroud with the first shot of the match off a set-up from Alexis but the attempt is blocked away. | |
| 7.48pm GMT | |
| 19:48 | |
| 2 min: Swansea dispossess Arsenal in their half and work it up the right flank through Norton. Eventually it’s played through to Gomis, but Cech is quick to collect it before he can have a go on goal. | |
| 7.47pm GMT | |
| 19:47 | |
| 1 min: And they’re underway! Arsenal kick it off in traditional home kits attacking left to right, Swansea in blue and green hooped away shirts with green shorts attacking right to left. It’s played back by the Gunners and up the right side where a high-pressing Swansea immediately foul. | |
| 7.42pm GMT | |
| 19:42 | |
| The players have emerged from the tunnel on a soggy night at the Emirates. Not much longer now. | |
| Updated | |
| at 7.45pm GMT | |
| 7.32pm GMT | |
| 19:32 | |
| An email from Thomas D Black asking for news regarding Laurent Koscielny’s absence. Per the team, the Frenchman is out with a “slight calf problem”. | |
| .@6_LKOSCIELNY misses today’s game with a slight calf problem #AFCvSCFC pic.twitter.com/SNuzMtzXjN | |
| 7.25pm GMT | |
| 19:25 | |
| Hello and welcome to the Emirates for today’s match between Arsenal and Swansea City. The Gunners will try to rebound from 3-2 loss at Manchester United on Sunday that’s left them third and six points adrift of league-leading Leicester City, who dropped points yesterday after drawing 2-2 with West Brom. | |
| With kick-off about 20 minutes from now, here’s a look at today’s teams. | |
| Arsenal | |
| XI: Cech, Bellerín, Mertesacker, Gabriel, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Campbell, Özil, Sánchez, Giroud | |
| Subs: Gibbs, Ospina, Walcott, Flamini, Chambers, Welbeck, Elneny | |
| Swansea City | |
| XI: Fabianski, Naughton, Amat, Williams (c), Kingsley, Cork, Fer, Ki Sung-Yueng, Routledge, Ayew, Gomis | |
| Subs: Nordfeldt, Rangel, Fernandez, Fulton, Barrow, Sigurdsson, Paloschi | |
| 6.34pm GMT | 6.34pm GMT |
| 18:34 | 18:34 |
| Bryan will be here shortly, in the meantime here’s news on some Arsenal injuries: | Bryan will be here shortly, in the meantime here’s news on some Arsenal injuries: |
| Santi Cazorla has suffered a setback in his recovery from knee ligament surgery, with Arsène Wenger saying the Arsenal midfielder had felt a reaction in his achilles. | Santi Cazorla has suffered a setback in his recovery from knee ligament surgery, with Arsène Wenger saying the Arsenal midfielder had felt a reaction in his achilles. |
| Jack Wilshere, too, continues to make slow progress in his fight to come back from the fractured fibula that has wrecked his season and he has effectively been ruled out until April, meaning he will miss the England internationals at the end of this month against Germany and Holland. | Jack Wilshere, too, continues to make slow progress in his fight to come back from the fractured fibula that has wrecked his season and he has effectively been ruled out until April, meaning he will miss the England internationals at the end of this month against Germany and Holland. |
| Wenger also said the midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would be out for six to eight weeks with the knee ligament injury he suffered against Barcelona in the Champions League last Tuesday to complete an unfortunate treble before Swansea’s visit to the Emirates on Wednesday night. | Wenger also said the midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would be out for six to eight weeks with the knee ligament injury he suffered against Barcelona in the Champions League last Tuesday to complete an unfortunate treble before Swansea’s visit to the Emirates on Wednesday night. |
| Cazorla, who has been sorely missed after he ruptured the lateral collateral ligament in his knee at Norwich City on 29 November, said last week he was “working better every day” and he had targeted the Champions League last 16 second-leg against Barcelona on 16 March for his comeback. | Cazorla, who has been sorely missed after he ruptured the lateral collateral ligament in his knee at Norwich City on 29 November, said last week he was “working better every day” and he had targeted the Champions League last 16 second-leg against Barcelona on 16 March for his comeback. |
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| Updated | Updated |
| at 6.40pm GMT | at 6.40pm GMT |