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Today’s 3pm kick-off has ended: Join Scott Murray for the post-match reaction on an afternoon that saw Erling Haaland score his 10th hat-trick as a Manchester City player, West Ham make it two goals without conceding at Crystal Palace and Fulham, Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur also record their first wins of the season.

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A glimpse into Arsenal’s dressing room reveals they will be wearing their Lynx Africa tribute kit tonight. Photo: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty Images
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Mikel Arteta: “I don’t take things personally”

Arsenal: The Arsenal manager is keen to take a shot at Unai Emery after last season’s defeats proved a disaster for their title hopes, writes Ed Aarons.

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Today’s match leaders

  • Referee: Michael Oliver.

  • Assistants: Stuart Burt and Dan Cook.

  • Fourth official: Darren England.

  • VAR number: Peter Banken.

  • Assistant VAR: Eddy Smart.

Michael Oliver is responsible for maintaining order at Villa Park tonight. Photo: Michael Zemanek/REX/Shutterstock
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Emiliano Martinez: “I’m just a normal guy”

Interview: The Aston Villa goalkeeper on his on-field persona, competing in the Champions League and taking on his former club Arsenal. He desperately tries to hold back his laughter as the Argentinean innocently denies being a master of the dark arts: Ben Fisher.

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These teams: Unai Emery will field the same 11 players who started against West Ham last week, despite Jhon Duran scoring from the bench. The Colombian striker is unlikely to replace Ollie Watkins and will almost certainly have to settle for cameos as long as Villa’s first-choice striker is fit.

Mikel Arteta makes just one change to the team that beat Wolves, bringing on Jurrien Timber for Oleksandr Zinchenko at left-back. Gabirel Jesus is missing from today’s matchday squad after picking up a minor groin injury. Eddie Nketiah, who has been linked with a £30m move to Nottingham Forest, is among the replacements.

Kai Havertz walks towards Villa Park after getting off the Arsenal team bus. Photo: Peter Powell/Reuters
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Aston Villa v Arsenal lineups

Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne, Onana, Tielemans, McGinn, Bailey, Rogers, Watkins.

Subtitles: Gauci, Diego Carlos, Maatsen, Nedeljkovic, Barkley, Buendia, Jaden, Ramsey, Duran.

Arsenal: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Timber, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Havertz.

Subtitles: Ramsdale, Zinchenko, Kiwior, Calafiori, Jorginho, Nelson, Nwaneri, Trossard, Nketiah.

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⚫️ 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠𝙉𝙀𝙒𝙎 🔴

💪 The wood starts at the back
⚖️ Rice is in the middle
⚡️ Saka is on the side

Ready to work – COME ON, GUNNERS!

—Arsenal (@Arsenal) August 24, 2024

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Early team news

Tyrone Mings has been back on the training pitch for over a year after suffering a knee injury last season that has kept him out since then. The centre-back missed pre-season and is not expected to return to action until sometime next month. Villa midfielder Boubacar Kamara is also out with a similar injury he sustained in February, but is clearly much further behind in his recovery.

Arsenal defenders Kieran Tierney and Takehiro Tomiyasu remain sidelined, while midfielder Fabio Vieira is back in full training after recovering from a groin injury and is unlikely to feature in today’s squad.

Tyrone Mings is back in full training after recovering from the knee injury that saw him miss all but the first six minutes of last season. Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA
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Premier League: Aston Villa vs Arsenal

Arsenal travel to Villa Park to face a potentially extremely tough assignment against a team who beat them home and away last season, irreparably damaging their title hopes. Both teams began the current campaign with victories, with Arsenal beating Wolves at the Emirates shortly before Villa defeated West Ham at the London Stadium.

Despite their clear superiority, neither team’s wins were particularly convincing and both Emery and Mikel Arteta will be hoping for a better performance from their respective teams tonight. Kick-off at Villa Park is at 17:30 (BST), but stay tuned for team news and the build-up.

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