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·27. Dezember 2024

Arsenal vs Ipswich LIVE! Premier League match stream, latest score and goal updates today

Gunners would move second behind Liverpool with third straight victory at the Emirates

George Flood|Simon Collings @sr_collings

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Arsenal have the chance to move up to second in the Premier League table as they host Ipswich in a festive Friday night fixture at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners would leapfrog both Nottingham Forest and Chelsea and pull within six points of leaders Liverpool with a third straight victory this evening, with Gabriel Jesus’ resurgence having led to two hugely contrasting wins over Crystal Palace in cup and league.

Mikel Arteta’s side will be strong favourites to continue that run against Kieran McKenna’s Ipswich, who sit 19th and three points adrift of safety after a heavy defeat by Newcastle and have won just two of their 17 games in the top-flight this season. Both sides will be missing key players in north London, with the injured Bukayo Saka replaced by Leandro Trossard as Declan Rice also comes in, while for Ipswich Kalvin Phillips is in for Sam Morsy and Liam Delap returns.

Arsenal have yet to lose at home in the league this season and have not lost a league game to Ipswich since 1984, though the visitors have won two of their last three on the road - stunning Tottenham in November. Follow Arsenal vs Ipswich live below!

Live updates

4 minutes ago

Standard Sport's Simon Collings at the Emirates Stadium

Standard Sport’s Arsenal correspondent Simon Collings is in position at the Emirates, where he reacts to that team selection from Mikel Arteta:

15 minutes ago

Five Ipswich changes from Newcastle rout

Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna, meanwhile, makes five changes to the side thumped 4-0 by Newcastle at Portman Road last weekend.

Manchester City loanee Kalvin Phillips does indeed deputise for suspended captain Sam Morsy in the middle as expected, while Ben Johnson, Jacob Greaves and Luke Woolfenden all come into the defence.

That looks like a back three from the Tractor Boys as Harry Clarke, Cameron Burgess, Conor Chaplin and Wes Burns all drop out.

Further forward, top scorer Liam Delap returns from suspension in a major boost.

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26 minutes ago

Two Arsenal changes as Rice and Trossard come in

So that’s two changes to the Arsenal side that started the 5-1 rout of Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park last weekend, with Leandro Trossard replacing the injured Bukayo Saka in attack.

Presumably it will be Trossard down the left, Gabriel Jesus through the middle and Gabriel Martinelli switching again to the right flank, as he did when Saka went off on Saturday.

Mikel Arteta’s only other change is in midfield, where Declan Rice replaces Thomas Partey.

Oleksandr Zinchenko is back on the Arsenal bench after recovering from a calf injury.

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40 minutes ago

43 minutes ago

Arsenal lineup

Arsenal XI: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Rice, Odegaard, Havertz, Trossard, Martinelli, Jesus

Subs: Neto, Tierney, Kiwior, Calafiori, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Partey, Merino, Nwaneri

48 minutes ago

Lineups on the way

An early peek inside the Arsenal dressing room before official lineups drop from the Emirates.

Will these two be back in the starting lineup to face Ipswich tonight?

We’ll find out very soon. Stay tuned...

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1 hour ago

Arteta: Coping with Saka absence will make me a better manager

This is certainly not the first time that Mikel Arteta has had to come up with a plan to cope without one of his leading stars this season, with captain Martin Odegaard having missed more than two months of action with ankle ligament damage sustained on international duty in September.

The Arsenal boss believes such a challenge will only make him a better manager as he also became the latest high-profile figure to take aim at football’s ever-expanding fixture list.

"I think so, yes,” he said. “We started the season with one of the thinnest squads in the Premier League, and we knew that.

"If we have the thinnest squad, what do we need? We really dug into that to make sure that we utilise every player in the best possible potential, and everybody has to feel part of it.

"You need to rediscover players in different positions, and different relationships. It's a really good exercise and the boys are willing to do anything we demand them to do, so that's a really good thing, too.

"It (the fixture list) is unsustainable unless we can find ways to physically turn the players into monsters who can cope with anything.

"The fact that you train and recover, that's not a good pattern because the body needs to train, the muscle needs to train.

“If you just play and recover you start to lose a lot of factors in your body that are key to physical performance.

"Not just to play not to get injured, but to become a better athlete, which is very different, and to keep evolving as an athlete.

"I hope the players are being listened to but whoever is in charge, can they actually do something right now with the commitments that are already in place over the next three or four seasons? It is very challenging and very difficult."

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1 hour ago

Calafiori and Rice pushing for Arsenal returns

As well as replacing the injured Bukayo Saka, what other changes can we expect to the Arsenal team tonight from the one that cruised to victory at Selhurst Park last time out?

Presumably it will be Gabriel Martinelli switching flanks again to the right and Leandro Trossard coming in down the left, with that duo flanking the in-form Gabriel Jesus up top.

Kai Havertz operated in midfield against Crystal Palace, but he or Thomas Partey could well make way tonight if Declan Rice is promoted back into the first XI after scoring late off the bench last weekend.

The back five would appear to largely pick itself, though we could presumably see Riccardo Calafiori replace young Myles Lewis-Skelly on the left.

The likes of Mikel Merino, Ethan Nwaneri, Jorginho and Jakub Kiwior are all other options if Arteta opts for more rotation for what on paper should be their most winnable game over this festive period, with a potentially tricky trip to Brentford awaiting on New Year’s Day before another tough journey to Brighton precedes two massive cup games against Newcastle and Manchester United in January.

Here’s how Standard Sport’s Simon Collings sees the Gunners shaping up ahead of the official team news...

Predicted Arsenal XI (4-3-3): Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori; Odegaard, Partey, Rice; Martinelli, Jesus, Trossard

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1 hour ago

Santi Cazorla in attendance as Arsenal's special guest

As noted by Standard Sport’s Simon Collings, Santi Cazorla is Arsenal’s special guest for tonight’s festive fixture.

The former Gunners favourite will be heading pitchside later on to conduct a special interview ahead of kick-off and no doubt receive a brilliant ovation from the home support.

1 hour ago

Arteta hails Gabriel Jesus 'turning point' after goal burst

Bukayo Saka’s injury has rather overshadowed the other big talking point from Arsenal in the run-up to Christmas, which was the timely resurgence of Gabriel Jesus.

The Brazilian scored his first home goals for a year as he bagged a dramatic hat-trick in the 3-2 come-from-behind win over Crystal Palace in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals last week, then adding another brace in the 5-1 league thrashing at Selhurst Park.

He had previously not scored in the Premier League for some 326 days.

Mikel Arteta believes such a sudden goal burst can act as a real turning point for Jesus.

“It has to be,” he said. “We have to push him, let him go and get behind him.

“He has had some difficult moments and when you are a striker that’s not easy because you get a lot of the spotlight.

“But credit to him, because his work ethic, and the way he came back in the summer, he was a completely different player. And now he is being rewarded.

“You have to prepare for your opportunity and, if you fail to prepare, it is not going to happen.

“You want results early and you don’t always see the rewards. It is like going to the gym and looking in the mirror after one week or one month.

“Sometimes it needs more time and suddenly everybody is saying you look much better, you’re looking healthier, and that’s a good example to use to understand what Gabi has done.”