- Arsenal entertain Aston Villa in a top-four clash in the Premier League.
- Kickoff at the Emirates Stadium is at 15:30 GMT.
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Unai Emery’s Aston Villa conquer Arsenal
What a day for Villa, but what a day for their manager.
The man appointed Arsene Wenger’s successor, returns to the Emirates to dent Arsenal’s hopes of a first title in 20 years.
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Full-time: Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa
Villa see out the match for a momentous win.
Full-time: Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa
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Rice blazes over
A desperate effort from range flies over to the delight of the Villa fans.
90+6 minutes: Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa
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Arsenal fail to mount a charge
Watkins is offside as he races onto a ball in the box. Arsenal meantime have not been able to create an opening since Villa’s quick-fire double.
90+4 minutes: Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa
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Eight minutes of stoppage time
There’s time left for something special but the Gunners will need to work fast.
90+1 minutes: Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa
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Arsenal are in shock
Emirates Stadium falls quiet but for the songs of the Villa fans.
The ramifications of this win will be felt on both sides of Manchester as well, for contrasting reasons.
89 minutes: Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa
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GOAL! Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa
Watkins breaks clear from the halfway line, with Smith Rowe in his wake, before lifting the ball over the onrushing keeper.
What a few minutes for the entire season.
86 minutes: Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa
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The ball trickled across the face
It was a well-placed cross from the left wing and everyone in the six-yard box was afraid to touch it but for Bailey running onto it.
85 minutes: Arsenal 0-1 Aston Villa
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GOAL! Arsenal 0-1 Aston Villa
Bailey taps in at the back post after a squared ball from the left wing.
84 minutes: Arsenal 0-1 Aston Villa
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The nerves start to jangle
With so much at stake for both sides it’s perhaps understandable that the game becomes fractious.
Will either commit enough players forward to make a difference, or leave an opening, at this stage.
81 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Two more changes for Arsenal
Arteta dishes out final instructions as he brings on Jorginho and Smith Rowe for Odegaard and Jesus.
78 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Three quick corners for Villa
The away side pen Arsenal in with three successive corners but the home side resist each of the set pieces.
75 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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The game tightens again
The teams begin to scrap again in the centre as the game tightens.
72 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Arsenal double change
Tomiyasu comes on for White while Trossard is replaced by Martinelli.
67 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Jesus draws the save from the edge of the box
The Arsenal striker hits a first-time shot, with the inside of his right foot, but Martinez is equal to it at his near post.
64 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Villa hit the bar and post with one shot
Tielemans lets rip from from the left edge of the box with a drilled effort that strikes the underside of the bar and ricochets down onto the post and clear.
Incredible strike.
62 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Villa make the first move
Diaby comes off for Bailey as Villa make the first change.
60 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Changes incoming
The half fails to take shape, much as the first, and it looks like we could see changes soon.
Villa will be the happier at how the overall play has developed – or failed to in the case of the home side.
58 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Villa await a shot on target
The away side may have struck the post in the first half, but none of their six efforts count as a shot on target.
Arsenal have had 15 efforts with three on target.
54 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Arsenal spurn a free kick
The Gunners win a free kick in a central position from 25 yards out but Odegaard fails to beat the wall.
50 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Jesus goes down in the box
The Arsenal striker wants a penalty but the ref points for a goal kick after Jesus was closed out on the right side of the box.
48 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Kickoff in the second half: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
This second half could have a huge say on the remainder of the season for both sides.
46 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Liverpool left in shock
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Arsenal on top but only just
The Gunners have made most of the running, but Villa have carried a threat.
Watkins’s effort, which rebounded off the inside of the post, was the best shot on goal of the match so far.
Goalkeeper Martinez has had a fine half and stood firm to everything, in particular to one point-blank save.
Both sides will look on this second half as a big opportunity for their season’s aspirations.
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(16:20 GMT)
Half-time: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
Villa’s free kick fails to beat the wall. But there was time for one more free kick from the deep, which similarly came to nothing. A pulsating half is brought to an end.
Half-time: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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(16:17 GMT)
Two minutes of stoppage time
Villa win a free kick on the edge of the box.
45+1 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Saka skims the outside of the post
The tempo increases and Saka presses forward on the right edge of the box before unleashing a curling effort towards the far post.
Just lacked enough bend to bring it back inside the post.
42 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Villa hit the post and Arsenal hit back
Ollie Watkins drags a shot low across the Arsenal goal and it rebounds back off the inside of the post.
Arsenal head to the other end and Martinez makes a sharp save from close range to deny Trossard.
39 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Saka heads over for Arsenal
Trossard lifts the ball from the left side of the box but Saka can’t keep his header down as he rose to meet the cross at the back post.
37 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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White booked for Arsenal
Zaniolo is sent clattering into his own man by White, who is booked.
Play is paused as the physio comes on.
35 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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Arsenal edge Villa on the stats
The Gunners marginally edge the possession but have had two shots on target to Villa’s none as we pass the half-hour mark.
32 minutes: Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
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