Bournemouth vs Arsenal as it happened: Olivier Giroud saves Gunners despite Cherries' three-goal lead
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Your support makes all the difference.Arsenal travel to the south coast to face Bournemouth for the second time this season, looking to jump back into third place in the Premier League.
Victory for Manchester City saw them jump ahead of Arsene Wenger’s side while United’s victory saw them close to within a point of the Gunners prior to kick off at the Vitality Stadium.
In the evening’s other fixtures, newly-appointed Swansea boss Paul Clement will be in attendance to see how his side gets on against Sam Allardyce’s Crystal Palace.
Stoke City take on Watford at the Bet365 Stadium in the evening’s final game.
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Monday's Premier League results
Middlesbrough 0-0 Leicester City
Everton 3-0 Southampton
Manchester City 2-1 Burnley
Sunderland 2-2 Liverpool
West Bromwich Albion 3-1 Hull City
West Ham United 0-2 Manchester United
Tuesday's Premier League fixtures
Bournemouth vs Arsenal - 7.45pm
Crystal Palace vs Swansea City - 8.00pm
Stoke City vs Watford - 8.00pm
Wednesday's Premier League fixtures
Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea - 8.00pm
Hello and welcome The Independent’s live coverage of Arsenal’s trip to the south coast to face Bournemouth.
The Gunners, fresh off from Olivier Giroud scoring the goal of the season so far, won the reverse fixture at the Emirates 3-1 in November and will be hoping to repeat that and leapfrog Manchester City back into third in the Premier League.
As well as the coverage from the Vitality Stadium, Crystal Palace face struggling Swansea at Selhurst Park, with the Welsh club’s new manager Paul Clement watching in the stands.
And the final match of the evening sees Stoke City take on Watford at the Bet365 Stadium.
Mesut Ozil missed Arsenal's home match with Crystal Palace on New Year's Day, and he remains a doubt for this evening's trip to the south coast. Here are three reasons why Gooners everywhere will be hoping he's fit come 7.45pm.
After three matches in eight days, changes aplenty are expected in both dressing rooms this evening. One player who will definitely be missing from the Bournemouth ranks, however, is Jack Wilshere; the on-loan Arsenal midfielder is ineligible to face his parent club.
The official team news from Dean Court is imminent.
Here's how they line up at Dean Court...
...and both sides make three changes to the teams that registered wins in the hours either side of the New Year bells.
We already knew that Eddie Howe was without the services of Jack Wilshere but he's also missing the services of another Arsenal man in Benik Afobe. Meanwhile, Andrew Surman drops to the bench as Dan Gosling, Josh King and Callum Wilson come into the Cherries first XI.
Arsene Wenger shuffles his pack by bringing the recently injured Shkodran Mustafi into his defence and both Francis Coquelin and Aaron Ramsey into his midfield. It means Gabriel and Lucas Perez are among the substitutes, but Mohamed Elneny misses out altogether. Meanwhile, the Arsenal boss names an impressive three double-barrelled surnames on his bench.
Bournemouth: Boruc, Francis, Cook, Ake, Daniels, Arter, Gosling, Stanislas, Fraser, King, Wilson
Subs: Federici, Mings, A. Smith, B. Smith, Surman, Ibe, Mousset
Arsenal: Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Xhaka, Ramsey, Iwobi, Sanchez, Giroud
Subs: Ospina, Maitland-Niles, Gabriel, Holding, Reine-Adelaide, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Perez
Referee: Michael Oliver
Arsenal will move back into third position, a point behind Liverpool in second, with a win this evening. Recent history suggests they should get it.
There's more Premier League teams news hitting the wires...
Crystal Palace v Swansea – 8pm
Crystal Palace: Hennessey, Kelly, Delaney, Tomkins, Ward, Ledley, Cabaye, Puncheon, Townsend, Zaha, Benteke
Subs: Speroni, Flamini, Phillips, Mutch, Lee, Sako, Campbell
Swansea: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Mawson, Taylor, Cork, Fulton, Ki, Sigurdsson, Routledge, Llorente
Subs: Nordfeldt, Rangel, van der Hoorn, Fer, Barrow, Dyer, Borja
Referee: Paul Tierney
Stoke v Watford – 8pm
Stoke: Grant, Johnson, Shawcross, Martins Indi, Diouf, Allen, Adam, Pieters, Arnautovic, Crouch, Walters
Subs: Given, Bardsley, Whelan, Afellay, Imbula, Shaqiri, Bojan
Watford: Gomes, Kaboul, Prodl, Kabasele, Britos, Doucoure, Guedioura, Behrami, Capoue, Holebas, Deeney
Subs: Pantilimon, Cathcart, Sinclair, Ighalo, Mason, Folivi, Eleftheriou
Referee: Neil Swarbrick
Impressive stuff.
I've seen Lee Cattermole top that in a ten-minute cameo.
Laurent Koscielny has vowed not to let Callum Wilson out of his sight tonight.
Eddie Howe has spoken about the beauty of Bournemouth under the lights and with good reason. The Cherries have won 16 of their 24 points at home this season including victories over Liverpool, Everton and champions Leicester City.
Arsenal's North London neighbours Tottenham were unable to find the target on their trip here in October and so an away win is by no means guaranteed tonight. Arsene Wenger's team will have to the home side's work ethic if they are to avoid falling to a third straight defeat on the road. It's almost time to find out if they will.
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