Premier League: Swansea stun Arsenal, Liverpool down Huddersfield and West Ham hold Palace
Re-live all the action from Tuesday night's games
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Your support makes all the difference.With just over 24 hours of the January transfer window the, perhaps unwelcome, distraction of Premier League football takes centre stage – albeit briefly.
Arsenal are in action away to Swansea City as they are on the verge of signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with Olivier Giroud moving to Chelsea.
Liverpool are away to Huddersfield Town and West Ham United face Crystal Palace in the other two games.
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Good evening and welcome to The Independent's live blog for tonight's Premier League games.
Swansea host Arsenal, West Ham United take on Crystal Palace and Liverpool travel to Huddersfield Town.
Team news to follow...
Look who has traveled to the Liberty Stadium, Arsenal fans. Henrikh Mkhitaryan is in the house and is in line to make his debut for Arsenal against Swansea. Full team news is coming up. Could Olivier Giroud start for the Gunners, and will it potentially be his last game for them?
Team news
Swansea vs Arsenal
Henrikh Mkhitaryan starts on the bench for Arsenal, along with Olivier Giroud.
Swansea vs Arsenal
Arsenal begin with a back four and Jack Wilshere is out through illness.
Swansea's Roque Mesa completed his loan move to Sevilla this afternoon and said on Twitter "I couldn't have shown all my football in Swansea."
West Ham vs Crystal Palace
Joao Mario makes his Premier League debut for West Ham against Crystal Palace after a frustrating afternoon against Wigan in the FA Cup defeat.
Neither of Palace's new signings, Erdal Rakip and Jaroslaw Jach, feature this evening. Andros Townsend returns to the team after picking up an injury earlier in the month.
Team News
Huddersfield vs Liverpool
Well that's an interesting team selection from Jurgen Klopp. Virgil Van Dijk drop the bench meaning Dejan Lovren partners Joel Matip in the centre of defence. Fear not Liverpool fans, the fab three are all in action.
Swansea vs Arsenal
Carlos Carvalhal has made quite the impact at Swansea in his first month in charge. Swansea are currently unbeaten in their last five games in all competitions, winning twice, including beating Liverpool 1-0 in their last Premier League game.
Huddersfield vs Liverpool
This evening's fixture brings together Jurgen Klopp and David Wagner who spent many years together at Borussia Dortmund.
The two met as players playing for Mainz 05 in 1991. Since then they has worked together for large parts of their career and created a Dortmund side which won the Bundesliga in 2011-12.
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