Arsenal vs Manchester City - as it happened: Unai Emery's new era gets off to disappointing start
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Your support makes all the difference.Arsenal host Manchester City at The Emirates this afternoon in the first competitive game of the Unai Emery era.
And yet on the pitch, Arsenal retain a very familiar look. New signings Bernd Leno and Lucas Torreria have both been left on the bench, with Petr Cech and Granit Xhaka preferred. There is however a debut for French teenager Mattéo Guendouzi.
There is also a start for Manchester City’s record signing Riyad Mahrez, as Pep Guardiola looks to begin the club’s title defence on a winning note. City are certainly favourites after strolling to a comfortable 3-0 victory in this corresponding fixture last season.
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33 mins: Liverpool 1 - 0 West Ham
West Ham have the most controlled passage of play, they keep hold of the ball in mid-field and Arnautovic leaves the ball to run to Antonio who is ruled offside, Liverpool immediately punt the ball up field and Keita whips the ball in and Salah is there to head it into the path of Fabianski
37 mins: Liverpool 1 - 0 West Ham
Salah should have a hat-trick by now, Firmino this time gets the ball on the right hand side of the box before darting forward and laying it to Salah in front of goal whose shot is straight at Fabianski
42 mins: Liverpool 1 - 0 West Ham
West Ham win a free kick in mid-field after they defend strongly again, but the problem is the pace at which Liverpool are playing, they win back the ball and but Felipe Anderson dispossess Alexander-Arnold on the right wing
44 mins: Liverpool 1 - 0 West Ham
Great work again from Fabianski, Mane flicks the ball into the box and into the path of a storming Salah but the West Ham goalkeeper is quick off his line and he claims the ball
45+1 mins: GOAL! Liverpool 2 - 0 West Ham - Mane
Liverpool double their lead. West Ham had a corner but Liverpool break forward after it is cleared and Mane feeds the ball to Salah whose cross is blocked by Fredericks but the ball falls to Robertson, he whips it long to Milner who catches it on the volley to pass it back across goal into the path of Mane for another easy tap in.
HALF TIME: Liverpool 2 - 0 West Ham
And in the second 13:30pm kick off game today Southampton 0 - 0 Burnley
SECOND HALF: Liverpool 2 - 0 West Ham
Snodgrass comes on in place of Rice for West Ham as they get the match back underway at Anfield, what words of wisdom has Manuel Pellegrini delivered to his side to get them back into this match?
48 mins: Liverpool 2 - 0 West Ham
Chance for West Ham, Snodgrass delivers a corner into the box and it's helped on by Felipe Anderson into the path of Antonio who tries a half attempted over head kick sending the ball wide
52 mins: GOAL! Liverpool 3 - 0 West Ham - Mane
That's curtains for West Ham, Milner gets the ball in mid-field before passing it to Firmino who finds another pocket of space, he draws the defenders towards him before giving the ball to Mane in the box, he turns and places the ball into the back of the net.
Replays show Mane was offside but it wasn't clocked by the referee or the linesmen so Liverpool continue to increase their lead
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