Arsenal vs Liverpool LIVE: FA Cup result and final score as Luis Diaz goal wraps up away win

Arsenal are properly up for this - and so are the crowd. Ben White flies into a firm, but perfectly fair, tackle to lift the noise. Plenty to think about for Jurgen Klopp in these opening skirmishes.

How have Arsenal not scored?!? Saka wins the ball in the final third and it feels a formality that a teammate will convert, but a heroic block from Ibrahima Konate keeps out the first effort, and Martin Odegaard hits the crossbar on the follow-up!

Good work from Luis Diaz, performing his defensive duties strongly to help out Joe Gomez. He wins a free kick out of Bukayo Saka, who gets up a little gingerly - Saka has been dealing with an Achilles problem, and this, thankfully, doesn’t look too serious.

Arsenal are banging on the door! An outstanding delivery strikes an Arsenal leg but isn’t diverted goalwards. Arsenal soon have the ball back, though, and Kai Havertz curls an effort on goal. Alisson saves but can’t handle it, scrambling to his feet to corral it at the second attempt.

Deflected behind! Another glimpse for Reiss Nelson, intelligently constructed as Ben White finds Martin Odegaard at the byline with a throw. Odegaard cuts back, Jorginho toes on, and Nelson’s effort is flicks away for a corner.

This has been a really bright start. Arsenal produce some vibrant football on the right, and it appears a shooting opportunity is there for Martin Odegaard. The home captain is trigger-shy, though, failing to fire and instead opting for a pass, and Liverpool regather their shape to push their opponents back.

Overhit - not Trent Alexander-Arnold’s best, bending beyond both Darwin Nunez and Ibrahima Konate and hopping out of play.

That was a brilliant pass from Aaron Ramsdale, and a fine run from Reiss Nelson - you can see the plan Arsenal have to get him running on an arc in and then up between Liverpool’s centre-halves.

Liverpool’s first attack brings a free kick wide on the right.

What a chance for Reiss Nelson! Route one football from Arsenal, a long, straight ball up the centre from Aaron Ramsdale beautifully weighted and allowing Nelson to rumble on to it. Nelson takes it around Alisson, but just runs out of room, checking back on to his right boot but unable to squeeze it in at the near post.

Kai Havertz does seem to have started centrally for Arsenal, with Reiss Nelson off the left. Cody Gakpo is the third man in Liverpool’s midfield, with Harvey Elliott up alongside Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez.