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Arsenal vs Crystal Palace - as it happened: Olivier Giroud shines as Gunners take all three points

Re-live all the action from the Emirates

George Cooper
Sunday 01 January 2017 13:26 GMT
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Arsenal welcome Crystal Palace to the Emirates Stadium in New Year’s Day’s second London derby knowing that victory will leapfrog them above Manchester City into third.

The Gunners ended their run of back-to-back defeats to Everton and Manchester City last time out by beating West Brom 1-0 on Boxing Day.

Palace are on a terrible run of form with the draw against Watford last time out their first point in six games, having lost all five of their previous six.

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New Year’s Eve Premier League results:

Burnley 4-1 Sunderland

Chelsea 4-2 Stoke

Leicester City 1-0 West Ham

Manchester United 2-1 Middlesbrough

Southampton 1-2 West Brom

Swansea 0-3 Bournemouth

Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City

69 mins: More good football from the Gunners as Monreal crosses and the ball pings behind off a defender. Goal-kick given, however, as the referee thinks it went out off Giroud.

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:25

71 mins: Sanchez has got behind the Palace defence so often this afternoon, it really is poor from the visitors. This time the marauding Chilean pulls the ball back from the byline for Xhaka, who shoots but his effort is blocked.

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:27

72 mins: With the game all-but safe Wenger makes two changes as Elneny comes off for Coquelin and Ramsey replaces Perez.Sadly for Palace, Sanchez is still on the pitch...

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:29

Alex Iwobi celebrates scoring Arsenal's second goal 

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:30

75 mins: Townsend goes off for Palace, replaced by Lee Chung-Yong

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:32

77 mins: Iwobi, scorer of Arsenal's second goal, goes off and is replaced by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain for the final 13 minutes.

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:33

79 mins: Almost 3-0 as Sanchez crosses, Giroud misses it and Hennessey has to stick out an arm to prevent the ball ending up in the bottom corner.

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:35

81 mins: Oxlade-Chamberlain burns past his man and delivers a low cross that Kelly scrapes away.

At the other end Monreal hauls down Zaha in full flight and is booked for his troubles.

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:38

83 mins: Arsenal look in total control as the game drifts into the final five minutes. Palace had a brief spell where they looked dangerous - how different the game could have been if Benteke had scored that header.

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:42

87 mins: Arsenal's substitutes combine. A nice ball from Oxlade-Chamberlain finds Ramsey, he shifts it and shoots from outside the box but it's wide.

Samuel Lovett1 January 2017 17:44

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