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Today’s Premier League results
Dominic Solanke scored a hat-trick as Bournemouth put 10-man Wolves to the sword, while Lucas Paqueta provided his fifth and sixth assists in five games to help West Ham to victory over Manchester United. Andros Townsend scored the only goal of the game as Luton poiled the pain on Newcastle, while their fellow strugglers Burnley also won at Fulham. Richarlison and Heung-min Son got the goals as Tottenham beat Everton, who had a Dominic Calvert-Lewin ruled out by VAR for a foul in the build-up.
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West Ham 2-0 Manchester United
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Fulham 0-2 Burnley
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Luton Town 1-0 Newcastle United
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Nottingham Forest 2-3 Bournemouth
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Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Everton
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Liverpool v Arsenal (5.30pm GMT)
Today’s match officials
Will Liverpool fans bring the noise?
Displaying an endearingly naive understanding of just how difficult it is for fans of elite level clubs to exchange unwanted tickets, Jurgen Klopp told Liverpool fans who are not prepared to give their players their most full-blooded support stakes to give their tickets away to somebody else who would.
The Liverpool manager was unimpressed with the flat atmosphere at Anfield for Liverpool’s match against West Ham and was scathing in his criticism of the club’s supporters, no doubt in a bid to turn his team’s ground into something of a bear pit this weekend.
“I was not overly happy, I have to say, with the atmosphere behind me,” Klopp said in his post-match interview. “I ask people what do you want? We changed a lot of things, we dominated West Ham like crazy, we missed chances.
“If I was in the stand I would be on my toes, 1,000 per cent. I don’t know if the Man United game was that bad that we have to say, ‘sorry we didn’t smash them’. If it’s too much football in December, I don’t know, sorry we have to play it as well, but, if you’re not in the right shape, give your ticket to someone else.”
Jürgen Klopp has laid bare the punishing demands on players by revealing Liverpool will head into their top-of-the-table fixture with Arsenal having trained for only 135 minutes in 10 days. Andy Hunter reports …
Those teams: Mikel Arteta fields the same side that started against Brighton last Sunday, while both Jorginho and Mohamed Elneny have been deemed fit enough to take their places on the bench.
On a run of 11 games with a goal, Darwin Nunez drops to the Liverpool substitutes’ bench and is replaced by Cody Gakpo. As expected, Curtis Jones starts ahead of Ryan Gravenberch in Liverpool’s midfield.
Liverpool v Arsenal line-ups
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, van Dijk, Tsimikas, Szoboszlai, Endo, Jones, Salah, Gakpo, Diaz.
Subs: Gomez, Nunez, Elliott, Gravenberch, Clark, McConnell, Kelleher, Quansah, Bradley.
Arsenal: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Odegaard, Rice, Havertz, Saka, Gabriel Jesus, Martinelli.
Subs: Ramsdale, Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Kiwior, Cedric, Trossard, Jorginho, Nelson, Elneny.
Early team news
Diogo Jota, Stefan Bajcetic, Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip, Andy Robertson and Alexis Mac Allister remain sidelined for Liverpool, while emerging sScottish starlet Ben Doak has joined the club’s list of long-term lame and halt after undergoing surgery on his knee. Concerns about the fitness of Ryan Gravenberch have been greatly exaggerated, although the Dutch midfielder may have to settle for a spot on the bench following Curtis Jones’s excellent midweek performance against West Ham.
Arsenal have long-term injury issues of their own, with Jurrien Timber, Thomas Partey, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Fabio Vieira all out with various ailments. Fringe midfielder Jorginho and Mohamed Elneny are also out, further depleting the Arsenal ranks.
Premier League: Liverpool v Arsenal
A place at the Premier League summit is the prize up for grabs at Anfield, where either Liverpool or Arsenal will end the day guaranteed the Christmas No1 spot. Following their turgid draw with Manchester United last weekend, Liverpool swatted West Ham aside in midweek to book their place in the Carabao Cup semi-finals and go into their third consecutive home game against an Arsenal side who are one point and two places ahead of them courtesy of their win against Brighton last Sunday.
Arsenal’s recent record at Anfield is not good, the League leaders having failed to win on any of their 13 visits in all competitions in just over a decade. Their last win at Anfield came in September 2012, a game Mikel Arteta may remember fondly as he was playing in it. The Arsenal boss will have to make do with a watching brief from his technical area this evening once the game kicks off at 5.30pm (GMT).
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