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

We are up and running at the Emirates Stadium.

Out into the cold the players come, Liverpool keeping warm in jackets, Arsenal showing their all white shirts proudly.

Kick off is nearing at the Emirates Stadium. Not all third round matches have VAR in operation, but this one will - Simon Hooper is on hand to assist John Brooks if required today.

A reminder that the Arsenal players will look slightly different to usual out on the pitch this afternoon. Luke Baker tells you why.

“We are not thinking about it, just getting through it,” Jurgen Klopp says of a hectic schedule. “The period with five games in 13 days, I’m really happy it is over. You woke up in the morning and didn’t know who you were playing next. It’s the first game in the FA Cup, and both Arsenal and us got a dream draw playing each other.

“Virgil is ill. We were kind of lucky in the last few weeks because a lot of staff had it, but not many players. We’ll see how he is tomorrow and for the next game.

“Harvey Elliott has played fantastically for us, not only this year but before. We need Harvey on the ball. We need to play to his skills and hopefully we can do that and get him involved.”

The players are out warming up, vitally important on a rather nippy evening in north London. There are a few flurries of snow forecast overnight - brr!

It feels like another big opportunity for Aaron Ramsdale, this. Neither nor David Raya have quite managed to grasp a firm hold of the number one shirt this season, though the Spaniard has been backed significantly more by Mikel Arteta. Can Ramsdale force a rethink for the second half of the season? Keeping Liverpool at bay, even without Mohamed Salah, could be a persuasive argument.

The raft of 2pm kick offs have just to an end, with Manchester City through, but West Ham and Nottingham Forest facing replays after being held at home by Bristol City and Blackpool respectively. It sounds like Jarrod Bowen might have suffered an injury scare for David Moyes’s side, too, with ex-Arsenal defender Konastantinos Mavropanos off prematurely earlier to add to the Scottish manager’s worries.

Alexis Mac Allister has grown into a holding role for Liverpool this season but Wataru Endo has been a positive stabilising force in that midfield of late, and you feel like he may well be missed during his Asian Cup efforts. The suggestion is that it may be Cody Gakpo rather than Harvey Elliott in a deeper role, with the latter pushed up to the right side of the front three.

So a chance for an Arsenal attack missing their top centre forward to test a Liverpool defence missing their two first-choice centre-halves - that feels like a key battle in a game between two relatively evenly-matched sides. You’d imagine Kai Havertz will occupy a central area for the hosts, but Bukayo Saka and Reiss Nelson will surely have the freedom to tuck in and run beyond the German, more often deployed in midfield this season.