ARSENAL are taking on Newcastle RIGHT NOW on Tyneside as the Gunners look to get back to winning ways.
And the first half has ended goalless in the North East after a feisty 45 minutes.
Kai Havertz was lucky to escape a red card after a reckless challenge on Newcastle's Miguel Almrion.
The headline team news from St James' Park is that Martin Odegaard is not fit enough to be included in Mikel Arteta's squad.
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- Newcastle team: Pope, Trippier, Schar, Lascelles, Burn, Longstaff, Joelinton, Guimaraes, Gordon, Almiron, Wilson
- Arsenal team: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Tomiyasu, Rice, Jorginho, Havertz, Saka, Martinelli, Nketiah
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52. Havertz lunges into another challenge but is nowhere near the ball.
He needs to be careful, having already been showed a yellow card.
The Magpies are passing the ball around trying to work an opening.
Almiron feeds Livramento out wide but Raya collects his cross.
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50. White whips a ball into the box and Rice rises early to meet it.
As Lascelles challenges him, he does not get a clean header and it loops up to Pope.
Arsenal are committing numbers forward more now when they attack.
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48. Havertz breaks for the visitors and finds Saka.
He tries to run into the box but is dispossessed.
Arsenal recycle it and Martinelli takes on Livramento but the young full back does well and wins a goal kick.
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46. Kieran Trippier has switched to left-back now with the change.
Arsenal have made no changes at the interval.
Newcastle come forward looking to break down the wall of red and white shirts.
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We are back underway at St James' Park.
Burn has come off for Livramento.
Newcastle get the second half started.
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A draw will do neither side any favours today with other results.
Both managers will be wanting to see more in an attacking sense from their players in the second half.
The game is poised on a knife edge, a goal could really set this game off.
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Eddie Howe won't be pleased at how little his side have tested David Raya.
Not that Nick Pope has had much to do that is.
Both managers will want to see more creativity in the final third from their players in the second half.
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The referee brings the first half to a close.
Both Guimaraes and Havertz can count themselves lucky to still be on the pitch.
It has added a little bite to this game however.
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45+4. Guimaraes drills the ball into an Arsenal player after the whistle has gone.
Rice and Guimaraes start pushing one another.
The referee steps in but keeps his cards in his pocket.
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45+2. Wilson is making some good runs into the channels.
The only problem for Newcastle is the centre backs are reading the balls they are threading through.
Arsenal counter attack and Martinelli cuts in from the left and gets a shot away but it is an easy save for Pope.
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45. Joelinton tries an effort from range but it is blocked.
Gordon picks it up and plays it to Guimaraes but he drags his effort wide of the goal.
We are going to have four minutes added here.
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43. It has been a feisty first half to say the least.
That challenge by Havertz led to three Newcastle players being booked by the referee.
Havertz plays the ball to Nketiah who goes to ground in the box but the referee is not interested at all.
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41. Newcastle have another big chance go begging.
Trippier crosses and Wilson can only get a slight touch to it.
It drops to Gordon but he cannot control it, in all fairness he should have hit it first time.
Big chance.
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39. The referee is losing control of this game.
He is showing yellow cards left, right and centre.
It certainly has got the home fans going again.
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37. Havertz goes lunging in on Burn on the touchline.
It all kicks off with both sets of players going at it.
The referee shows both Havertz and Gordon a yellow card.
The replay shows the German lunged in with his studs up there.
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35. Arsenal are getting numbers behind the ball all of the time.
Trying to crowd out the Newcastle attacks.
It means The Magpies have to play the ball all the way back to their defence.
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33. The Magpies try to come forward and exert some pressure of their own.
Arsenal are coping well defensively so far.
Wilson wins the ball back off White and sets Gordon free down the left.
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31. Arsenal are growing in confidence now.
Tomiyasu is getting forward down the left flank in support.
Saka goes down under the challenge of Burn.
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29. Big chance for Callum Wilson.
As Burn challenges for the ball in the box it breaks to the striker.
He reacts quickest but volleys the ball over the crossbar.
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27. St James' Park has quietened down a bit now.
Newcastle need to give them something to shout about.
Burn falls awkwardly going up for a header with Havertz.
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25. Mikel Arteta is having some words with Newcastle assistant manager.
These two have previous from their encounter at The Emirates.
Wilson looks to take on Gabriel but the defender shepherds it out for a goal kick.
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23. Arsenal get another cross into the box, playing a short corner, but Nketiah gets underneath the header.
They seem to lack an aerial dominance in the box.
Arsenal are finding the best way to cope with the Newcastle pressure is to get them turning towards their own goal.
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21. Saliba tries his luck from a long way out.
It deflects wide, wrong-footing Nick Pope.
Arsenal are having a period of pressure in the Newcastle final third now.
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19. It is end to end stuff at the moment.
Saka looks get a shot away from the edge of the box but it is blocked.
He is all too predictable turning onto his left foot all the time.
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17. It is a frantic start to the game.
Both sides are getting stuck into the challenges.
They are just lacking that quality in the final third.
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