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Arsenal 2-2 Liverpool: The points are shared at the Emirates after Salah scores a late equaliser
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Arsenal drew 2-2 with Liverpool at the Emirates on Sunday night in a tense clash at the top of the Premier League.
The Gunners made the perfect start to a vitally important match as Bukayo Saka latched on to Ben White’s long ball before cutting inside Andy Robertson and rifling a high effort past Kelleher at the near post.
Liverpool were soon back on level terms as Virgil van Dijk nodded in from Alexander-Arnold’s set-piece, but from there Arsenal dominated the rest of the opening 45 minutes, and were ahead once more as Mikel Merino powered a header in from Declan rice’s free-kick.
The second half started with bad news for Arsenal, as Gabriel was forced off with injury. It was then the away side’s turn to dominate, and their attacking paid off as Alexander-Arnold played a lovely pass into the path of Darwin Nunez, who squared it to Mohamed Salah to net the equaliser.
That goal set up a tense finish in north London, and the spoils were shared after an intriguing early season match-up at the top of the table.
Follow all the action from the Emirates with our live blog below:
Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
52 mins
Salah exchanges passes with Mac Allister in the box before sending in a cross that is punched away by Raya.
Gabriel is down again, and he’ll have to come off.
Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
51 mins
Diaz does brilliantly down the left to skip past Partey and then White, but he runs out of space and Raya collects.
Gabriel is back on.
Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
49 mins
Plenty of concern for Gabriel here, but he’s back on his feet and he jogs off, so he should be okay.
Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
47 mins
Half a chance for Arsenal as Trossard sweeps it to Havertz and the German’s cutback is hoofed away.
Meanwhile, a worry for Arsenal as Gabriel goes down under no challenge.
Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
46 mins
Gabriel does well to trick Nunez into the foul. Sipke Hulshoff is booked for his protestations.
KICK-OFF! Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
Arsenal get the second half started!
HALF-TIME! Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
The two sides are emerging from the tunnel again so we’ll be underway in the second half soon.
HALF-TIME! Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
As already mentioned, it was an intriguing first half, certainly in the first 20 minutes.
Set-pieces have hurt both sides, but Arsenal have had the lion’s share of the open-play chances.
Liverpool remain a threat but they haven’t really got Salah or Jones into the game properly, while Bukayo Saka is running the game down the wing for Arsenal. The away side need to help Robertson out more too.
HALF-TIME! Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
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