Arsenal vs PSG - LIVE: Latest score, goals and updates from International Champions Cup as Mesut Ozil and Alexandre Lacazette score
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Your support makes all the difference.Arsenal’s pre-season continues with an International Champions Cup clash against French champions Paris Saint-Germain today.
Unai Emery’s team will be hoping to bounce back after a 3-1 penalty shootout defeat by Atletico Madrid earlier this week, after a 1-1 draw in normal time.
PSG will likely pose a similarly tough test, with former Arsenal managerial target Unai Emery in the dugout.
Follow live coverage of the fixture below.
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When is the match?
The match kicks-off at 12.35pm BST on Saturday 28 July.
Where is it taking place?
The Singapore National Stadium – located in, you guessed it, Singapore – will host the exhibition.
Where can I watch it?
Premier Sports will show the match live.
16 mins: Arsenal are all over PSG at the minute! Aubameyang's pace is really causing their defence a lot of problems, with Ozil and Mkhitaryan repeatedly dumping balls down the flank for him to chase.
18 mins: Nkunku is a real live-wire. He bursts into the Arsenal penalty box, performs a handful of roulettes and stepovers, runs himself into a cul-de-sac and then boots the ball back into his midfield.
You can tell this is a friendly. The ball is racing one from one penalty box to the other quicker than you can say International Champions Cup 2018.
21 mins: To be fair to PSG's front line, they are actually attempting something of a press. But Arsenal's defence is holding up well and they're enjoying their first sustained spell of possession this match.
On a related note, Leno looks very good with the ball at his feet.
24 mins: LIQUID FOOTBALL!
Arsenal turn it on in the middle of the park and go so close to scoring a second! Mkhitaryan starts the move, rolling the ball to Aubameyang who passed it first-time to Ozil. The skipper than backheels the ball into the path of Mkhitaryan, who sends Iwobi scampering away down the left.
It's not the perfect angle but a decent enough chance ... but Buffon stands tall, getting something onto Iwobi's low shot and turning it wide.
26 mins: GOALLL-no!
Iwobi finds Aubameyang in the box and the striker flicks the ball into the net. A sublime finish ... but he's miles offside. A crying shame, that.
27 mins: "Unai Emery has already greatly improved Arsenal's verticality," says the US commentator in admiration.
29 mins: Arsenal have really started turning it on in the middle of the park, almost immediately after I perceptively noted that this game had featured precisely zero midfield play. Lol. Guendouzi floats an inch-perfect ball over the top which Aubameyang races onto, but he shoots straight into Buffon's midriff.
30 mins: Wow! Guendouzi plays another wonderful pass into the path of Aubameyang, only this time the forward is quickly crowded off the ball.
The youngster is really impressing out there.
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