Arsenal V Watford - As it happened.
Join us for live text updates from the Premier League clash between Arsenal and Watford at the Emirates Stadium.
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90'FULL TIME: ARSENAL 2 - 0 WATFORD - Very important victory for Arsenal here at the Emirates.
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90'Clean sheet for Arsenal, two goals, not their best performance but still - another three points. A very important victory for Arsenal here.
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90'FOUR MINUTES ADDED TIME.
Goaaaaaal!
de Arsenal en el 83'
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Statistics of M. Özil in Premier League2450.21220
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83'GOAL: OZIL: ARSENAL 2 - 0 WATFORD: Arsenal have turned the game on its head! Lacazette plays a simple ball in which Ozil finishes well past Foster.
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80'GOAL: CATHCART OG: ARSENAL 1 - 0 WATFORD! Own goal? Lacazette? Nobody is celebrating, it was a great cross in from Iwobi, however it's an OWN GOAL! It was a tangle of legs, will Arsenal care? No. The ball ends up in the back of the net.
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75'OFF: AUBAMEYANG, ON: WELBECK.
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74'The game is in the balance!
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74'BIG MISS: Success uses his pace and gets in behind Holding, however his effort brushes off the wrong side of the far post. Watford are knocking on the door, such an open game!
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73'Poorly defended set piece from Arsenal! The ball lands between Leno's legs, however Watford players are unable to poke the ball home.
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71'Change for Watford - OFF: GRAY, ON: SUCCESS.
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70'Arsenal are pushing....very open game so far.
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65'Gray offside (again).
Substitution
at Arsenal
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63'Change for Arsenal - OFF: RAMSEY, ON: IWOBI.
Yellow card
a Arsenal
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62'Mustafi is booked for dissent after complaining to the referee, Anthony Taylor, after he failed to award Arsenal a free kick.
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60'Arsenal corner easily defended by Watford.
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60'Watford are looking the better team.
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59'Alex Iwobi looks set to come on and replace Ramsey, whose contract talks have stalled this week.
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58'Gray caught offside for the second time in two minutes, he has the pace and needs to start timing his runs better.
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57'Leno comes to catch a cross however gets in a muddle and ends up punching the ball on the floor, Watford are looking the more threatening team here at the Emirates.
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56'Gray caught offside.
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54'Lacazette mistimes his leap and fails to convert a simple header from five yards out, should have worked the goalkeeper at least.
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53'Leno punches away the second corner, then punches away the following cross. Good start from the German.
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51'LENO SAVE: Good introduction, the flat free kick from Watford reaches Troy Deeney, which forces a top save out of Leno. The resulting corner is well dealt with by Arsenal, however it goes out for another Watford corner.
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50'Mustafi heads over from close range, should have perhaps done better.
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49'Good goalkeeping from Ben Foster to gather Mustafi's fizzed in cross.
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47'Not the best of starts from Leno, he tries to chip the ball out to the flanks however clears it out for a goal kick. It was his first touch of the game, so can be excused.
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45'SECOND HALF: ARSENAL 0 - 0 WATFORD - The Gunners are now kicking from right to left.
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45'HALF TIME: ARSENAL 0 - 0 WATFORD
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45'He's slowly hobbling off the pitch, Bernd Leno will replace him. Hopefully he won't be out for too long, however it did look very nasty.
Injured
en Arsenal
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45'Petr Cech is screaming for medical attention and signalling to go off, he appears to have tweaked this whilst taking his goal-kick.
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44'The referee, Anthony Taylor, has decided to book him for that. The challenge was very late.
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44'Late foul from Terreira...
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43'Will Hughes bundles down Xhaka - Arsenal gift the ball straight away and Watford are in on the counter-attack.
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42'Sloppy from Xhaka who gives away possession with a poor pass - not great.
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38'Good stop from Ben Foster, goes out for a corner - defended well at the near post by Watford again.
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35'The game has settled down now, both teams happy to have controlled possession.
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30'Troy Deeney is booked for a tough tackle on Monreal - he hauls him back up immediately and gestures that there's nothing wrong with him. In truth, there doesn't seem to be a lot wrong with him.
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28'Very bright start to the game from Watford.
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26'Monreal's cross was blocked for a corner...the resulting effort was well headed away by Doucoure at the near post.
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24'Aubameyang was in, however Ben Foster was wall off his line and sweeping well - he clears the ball away.
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20'Lacazette can't get on the end of an Arsenal cross to turn the ball in - brilliant first 20 minutes here! End to end action from both teams, both managers enjoying free-flowing counter-attacking football.
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18'Watford are taking the game to Arsenal and being physical, Troy Deeney will be testing whether they have 'cojones' today or not...
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16'Gray fouled Bellerin as Will Hughes tests Petr Cech, was a good save from the veteran keeper however it would not have counted, the referee had already given a foul.
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14'BIG MISS: Lacazette capitalises on a Cathcart mistake, he's 1 v 1 with Ben Foster and tries to dink it over him, however he puts it well well wide. Arsenal should be 1-0 up.
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11'Holebas' cross picks out Deeney, who heads it down for Hughes and the Watford midfielder strikes it just wide first-time.
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10'A very promising first 10 minutes for Watford, who are seeing plenty of the ball in attacking areas.
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4'PENALTY APPEAL: Lacazette is tripped by Kabasele, however stays on his feet. Perhaps, if he had gone down - a penalty would have been awarded, Watford have got away with that.
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2'Cech comes to take a catch, spills it - however the referee deems Deeney to have fouled the 36-year-old.
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PRVWMustafi brings down Gray, free kick in a dangerous place for Watford. Petr Cech has assembled a two man wall...great goalkeeping from Cech to be brave and save the day for Arsenal.
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PRVWKICK OFF: ARSENAL 0 - 0 WATFORD - We're underway here at the Emirates.
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PRVWFORM: Arsenal have won their last five competitive fixtures. http://thumb.besoccer.com/media/projects_img/editor_live/img_events/e79ba2eeb2ac78eb.png
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PRVWPREAMBLE: Watford manager Javi Gracia: ''I know they are a good team because they have good players. They are improving game by game, getting better results, in this moment they are in a good moment, and we know it will be a tough game for us. “They keep many characteristics they had before because they are the same players like Bellerin and Montreal - players they had in the past and now they have adjusted only the positions of [Alexandre] Lacazette and [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang.''
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PRVWPREAMBLE: Arsenal manager Unai Emery: ''I think it's a big match and a rivalry match tomorrow. They want to win against us with good things tactically and good things also individually. ''But we know, tomorrow we need to play and we need also in the individual duels on the pitch, to win for step-by-step in the 90 minutes so we can impose our ideas, our job and our moment physically on the match. ''They are a team with very good players, very competitive and with the duels they are a very hard
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PRVWOnly 40 minutes to go until kick off, it's a glorious day here in North London!
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PRVWWATFORD XI: Foster, Navarro, Cathcart, Kabasele, Holebas, Hughes, Doucoure, Capoue, Pereyra, Gray, Deeney. SUBS: Gomes, Mariappa, Femenia, Masina, Chalobah, Sema, Success.
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PRVWARSENAL XI: Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Monreal, Torreira, Xhaka, Ozil, Ramsey, Aubameyang, Lacazette. SUBS: Leno, Lichsteiner, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Iwobi, Mykhitaryan, Welbeck.
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PRVWWatford come in to this one sitting happily in fourth position, their manager, Javi Gracia, is confident:
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PRVWArsenal have arrived.
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PRVWThe stage is set, we can't wait for this London derby to get underway!
Pre-match
29 September 2018, 16:00
Referee: Anthony Taylor
Stadium: Emirates Stadium
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PRVWGood afternoon and a warm welcome to all joining us for today's live text coverage from the Emirates. It's Arsenal v Watford, sixth versus fourth, it should be a cracker! Team news to follow shortly.