FT: Arsenal 3-1 Chelsea LIVE Premier League Match, Latest Score And Goal Updates

Arsenal simply must beat Chelsea this evening to still have any chance of realising their title dreams, with City hosting struggling West Ham tomorrow night.

They face a Blues team yearning for victory themselves having lost all five of their matches to date under interim manager Frank Lampard, exiting the Champions League and sitting 12th in the table having yet to eclipse the 40-point mark.

Arsenal have won five of their last six games against Chelsea, making three changes tonight as Jorginho, Jakub Kiwior and Leandro Trossard all come in.

Lampard, meanwhile, starts with both Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Noni Madueke. Follow Arsenal vs Chelsea live below, with expert analysis from Simon Collings and Nizaar Kinsella at the Emirates.

Chelsea team news

Chelsea XI: Kepa; Azpilicueta, W. Fofana, Silva, Chilwell; Kante, Fernandez, Kovacic; Madueke, Aubameyang, Sterling.

Subs: Mendy, Badiashile, Chalobah, Gallagher, Loftus-Cheek, Mudryk, Felix, Ziyech, Havertz

Arsenal team news

Arsenal XI: Ramsdale; White, Gabriel, Kiwior, Zinchenko; Jorginho, Xhaka, Odegaard; Trossard, Saka, Jesus

Subs: Turner, Holding, Tierney, Partey, Vieira, Smith Rowe, Nelson, Martinelli, Nketiah

KICK OFF

We’re under way.

2 min: Arsenal come flying out of the blocks, with Bukayo Saka running directly at the Chelsea defence.

The crowd are right up for this from the get-go!

3 min: Great overlap from White to support Saka and curl in a decent cross. Chelsea get it away but they’re up against a determined outfit tonight, it seems.

Now the other question – can they play away from the Arsenal press?

Back four risk for Blues

5 min: Chelsea playing in a back four is a major gamble. They’ve not played well in this shape for many months but are trying it against one of the Premier League’s top teams.

Xhaka nearly gets gifted a chance inside the box by Azpilicueta but Chelsea scramble clear. They look panicky already.

6 min: Arteta pulls Saka over for a chat. He has started brightly, running at Chilwell whenever he can. That feels like a key area for Arsenal to target.

7 min: Frank Lampard already looks a bit glum in the Chelsea dugout – his team have started slowly.

There’s 16 goals in Lampard’s Chelsea’s team in all competitions. Saka, by contrast, has 14 by himself. The disparity has never been bigger.

9 min: Gleeful chants of ‘you’re going down’ from the Arsenal fans directed at their West London counterparts.

‘You’re gonna win f*** all,’ eply the Chelsea faithful.

It’s a London derby alright.

11 min: Some sustained pressure from Arsenal, albeit on the edge of the Chelsea box at the moment. Xhaka is getting into some very dangerous positions, roaming from deep.

13 min: Chelsea aren’t clearing the ball away from danger. Instead they’re conceding fouls, allowing Arsenal to retain control.

Kiwior has enjoyed a fairly comfortable start, getting on the ball a fair amount and making a telling challenge just then.

14 min: Great pass from Saka into the feet of Jesus in the box, but he can’t control it enough to get a shot away. Kovacic messes up his clearance.

Then it’s Xhaka who gets through down the left and wins a corner. Saka’s header is saved by Kepa.

Kiwior watch

15 min: Kiwior starting to settle now after looking very shaky early on. He’s being helped by Chelsea sitting so deep and Aubameyang not pressing him.

16 min: Gary Neville isn’t impressed by how Chelsea have started the game…

GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea | Odegaard ‘18

Odegaard opens the scoring! 1-0 to the Arsenal.

It’s worked from the left to the Norwegian lurking on the edge of the box and he curls home with immense composure. The Emirates goes bonkers.

19 min: Odegaard has struggled recently, not least at Man City last week, so that goal will do him the world of good. Arsenal with their tails up now.

21 min: More chants of ‘you’re going down’ from the home crowd.

Chelsea are desperately digging in now, although Madueke does superbly to charge down the right to get them out of bother – there’s no option for him at the end of the run, though.

23 min: Chelsea’s first genuine spell of attacking football doesn’t last too long… but they’ve at least tried to string some passes together since going behind.

24 min: Chilwell comes so close to levelling, somehow finding himself in acres of space, but Ramsdale shows superb reflexes to save.

26 min: The resulting corner doesn’t bring much for Chelsea, but they’ll be buoyed by that Chilwell chance.

27 min: Arsenal appeal for a penalty for a potential handball against Fofana but there’s nothing doing, even after a brief VAR check.

29 min: Madueke again finds space on the right flank but again his final ball eludes him.

Fofana then concedes a sloppy foul to let Arsenal off the hook. A penny for Frank Lampard’s thoughts right now… he’s staring at a sixth consecutive defeat.

Ashburton Army protest

30 min: After missing the first 30 minutes by watching the game on TVs in the concourse, the Ashburton Army are back. Sounds like they were protesting at extra ticket checks.

GOAL! Arsenal 2-0 Chelsea | Odegaard ‘31

Odegaard again! It’s 2-0 to the hosts.

Again it comes from the left, with Xhaka again pulling it across for the midfielder to sweep it home from around 12 yards. Chelsea picked apart once more.

Chelsea all at sea

33 min: Chelsea’s players arguing among themselves as Thiago, Chilwell and Enzo exchange words.

Chelsea’s game plan seems to be to play a low block but they aren’t engaging Arsenal at all. They are just not competing.

GOAL! Arsenal 3-0 Chelsea | Jesus ‘34

35 min: Goodness me, it’s 3-0! Jesus from close range after it falls kindly for the Brazilian following Ben White’s cross.

Chelsea’s defenders have absolutely no clue at the moment.

36 min: Just to put this Chelsea performance into context…

38 min: Arsenal cannot believe their luck, coming up against this shell of a Chelsea side at this moment in the title race.

They’re well on course to regain top spot in the league, if only on a temporary basis.

40 min: Looks like Chelsea’s frustration is beginning to boil over. Fofana and Jesus have a feisty exchange, which leaves both men on the floor.

41 min: Arsenal fans singing Frank Lampard’s name. He must almost wish he was back at Everton. This will be painful for him.

42 min: Aubameyang has been very, very peripheral tonight.

44 min: Kovacic tries an ambitious ball in behind the Arsenal defence, which doesn’t ever look like coming off. That sums it up for Chelsea right now.

45 min: Cameras just cut to a very sad looking Mudryk on the Chelsea bench. A penny for his thoughts.

Two added minutes at the end of the first half.

HALF TIME

Arsenal 3-0 Chelsea at the break. Odegaard’s brace and a goal from Jesus have the Gunners in complete control, with Chelsea at sixes and sevens.

SECOND HALF

Okay, how many more goals can Arsenal pile on in this second half to rub salt into Lampard’s wounds? Or have Chelsea got a comeback of any kind within them?

We’re going to find out. The second half is under way.

Kai Havertz is on for Chelsea, replacing… Aubameyang.

46 min: Chelsea go straight forward from second half kick off, but there’s not much in the way of a pattern to their attacking play.

48 min: Frustration for Madueke, whose cross is nowhere near a teammate – although he gets a thumbs-up from his manager, Lampard.

49 min: Good pressing by Arsenal but very poor passing from Chelsea… even N’golo Kante is passing it into touch. Azpilicueta piles into Jesus with a very heavy challenge. Naughty that.

51 min: Gabriel heads from Trossard’s corner and it’s cleared off the line by Chelsea! Not a million miles away from a fourth. Very close, actually.

52 min: Thiago Silva with the clearance for the Blues. The 38-year-old remains a vital player for his team.

Arsenal put together another flowing move and Xhaka’s shot is just about parried away by Kepa.

54 min: Another corner brings yet another Arsenal chance. This time Trossard’s delivery from the left finds its way to Jesus at the back post, but he volleys over.

That was a big chance.

56 min: Some concern for Arsenal here, as Gabriel appears to be hobbling. This could be a hamstring issue. The Gunners certainly don’t need any more injuries in the centre-back area.

Chelsea, meanwhile, are cut apart once more – their defending has been so poor tonight – but Kepa saves from Saka at the near post.

59 min: Martinelli is coming on for Arsenal. He’ll want to get in on the act tonight, you’d presume.

Trossard the man replaced.

61 min: A rare foray forward for Chelsea, amid some fairly ordinary Arsenal defending. The home side get away with it, though, and they’re pouring forward once more.

Chelsea should score

63 min: Azpilicueta is fuming as the officials give Arsenal another corner. He should probably be more angry at his teammates and his own performance.

Chelsea should probably have scored there, after a huge overload on the counter-attack. Kante, and then Madueke, both get it wrong.

GOAL!

Madueke makes amends! He’s scored and Chelsea have a faint glimmer of hope. 3-1.

GOAL! Arsenal 3-1 Chelsea | Madueke ‘65

Madueke makes amends! He’s scored and Chelsea have a faint glimmer of hope. 3-1.

A great run in behind Arsenal – who have been fairly shambolic at the back in the past few minutes – and a tidy enough finish.

66 min: More worrying from an Arsenal perspective than that goal is the fact Gabriel is down in pain. Arsenal cannot afford to lose another centre-back.

Better from Chelsea

67 min: In Chelsea’s defence, the substitution of Kai Havertz has added a bit more of a focal point and they now have a foothold in the game after Noni Madueke’s first goal for the club.

Credit to the supporters in the away end who have mostly remained to see that moment.

Mudryk and Gallagher are going to come on.

69 min: Arsenal increase the intensity levels once more, after conceding that goal.

They’ve been susceptible to squandering leads, lately. Surely they can’t do it again?

70 min: Mykhailo Mudryk is coming on against the club he almost signed for… the reaction will be interesting.

71 min: Fernandez and Sterling are the men Lampard chooses to take off.

73 min: The trio of Odegaard, Xhaka and Saka continue to impress and combine for Arsenal. This time their combination play wins a corner.

‘You should have signed for the Arsenal,’ sing the home crowd at Mudryk as he clears a corner away.

Tierney and Nelson are coming on for the Gunners, with Saka and Zinchenko replaced.

77 min: It’s Arsenal who look the more likely to score this game’s next goal.

Chelsea will have to find the net soon if they want to set up a grandstand finish.

79 min: Chelsea are getting a few set piece opportunities at the moment. They’re still searching.

Ziyech is on for the goalscorer, Madueke.

80 min: Kovacic goes in the book for a nasty one on Jesus. Weirdly, that’s tonight’s first yellow card.

Arteta looks a bit tetchy on the sideline. He’d have wanted his players to put this game to bed sooner tonight; their play has deserved a bigger margin.

82 min: For the third time in the game, Gabriel is down and looking in some discomfort. It’s a surprise he’s stayed on to this point, in all honesty. He stays on again, though.

84 min: Finally Rob Holding is going to come on for Gabriel. Thomas Partey is being introduced by Arteta as well, replacing Jorginho – who’s had an enjoyable night against his old club.

86 min: Chalobah is on for Fofana for Chelsea.

88 min: It looks very much like this one is going to just play out without a hitch, from an Arsenal perspective.

A half chance for Azpilicueta but little else for Chelsea to cling onto.

Added time

90 min: The fourth official indicates we’ll have five more minutes at the Emirates tonight.

FULL TIME

It finishes Arsenal 3-1 Chelsea.

Havertz had a late chance, so too did Xhaka at the other end.

It’s a scoreline that actually flatters Frank Lampard’s side, who were outplated pretty much from first whistle to the last. Odegaard bagged a brace, Jesus got the third, Madueke pulled one back in the second half after Arsenal fluffed a few chances to win by an even bigger margin.

Those Gunners’ title hopes are still alive.