Arsenal vs Aston Villa LIVE! Premier League

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The Gunners are out for a fifth consecutive win to open their Premier League campaign as Steven Gerrard’s side come to the Emirates Stadium. Under growing pressure after three defeats in four games, the Villa boss could find his team in the relegation zone if they suffer defeat.

With a lot of focus on potential signings on transfer deadline day, Arsenal’s existing crop of talent have shown their quality already by securing comfortable wins over Crystal Palace, Leicester and Bournemouth before the weekend’s tight win over Fulham – delivered courtesy of a late winner from Gabriel .

With Manchester City and Tottenham the top three leaders, and both in action tonight, the early league will know the pressure is on to maintain their fine start to the campaign. Follow all the action with Standard Sport’s live blog below, featuring expert analysis from Simon Collings at the Emirates!

Arsenal vs Aston Villa highlightsLive updatesShow latest updates 1661977526Big scenes of celebration at full time!

Don’t tell Gabby Agbonlahor…

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Arsenal win! Again!

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90+5 mins: Nketiah has been a fine and able runner since coming on and races down the middle before letting fly, his shot cruising over the bar.

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90+3 mins: Gabriel battles with Ings to win a goal kick, Ings going down very easily in search for a penalty. No dice.

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90 mins: Five minutes added on…

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89 mins: Nketiah scampers away with a fine run down the right to ease off the Villa pressure.

Calm play from Arsenal on the ball inside their opponents’ half, Digne eventually sticking in a nice tackle on Nketiah by the 18-yard line.

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87 mins: A huge cheer for Gabriel’s sliding clearance but Villa work it to win a corner, which Ramsdale gets underneath to punch.

Two changes from Arteta as Holding and Nketiah replace Jesus and Saka.

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83 mins: A bit of a worry for Arsenal with Ramsdale needing treatment on his right leg.

He’ll carry on for now with Ings coming on for Villa, replacing Kamara. An attacking change.

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[After 1-1]: Arsenal undone in bizarre fashion. What did we say about killing the game?

[About 30 seconds later]: I’ll shut up now.

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80 mins: Odegaard, clearly still hurt from that earlier McGinn foul, comes off for Smith Rowe.

A standing ovation from the home crowd but, to be fair, nobody is sitting down at the Emirates right now!

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