LIVE: Premier League returns: Manchester City 3-0 Arsenal - Sterling, De Bruyne and Foden score as Luiz gives away penalty and shown red card
The Premier League is back this evening after three months in hiding due to the coronavirus pandemic.
We will bring you all the key updates of the first match as Sheffield United travel to Aston Villa, before bringing you extensive updates on Manchester City v Arsenal later tonight.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
30 min: De Bruyne charges through the middle at will but his lay off to the right doesn’t reach its target.
The Belgian looks like the only one who could make something happen right now.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
25 min: Aubameyang looks to bend one from 25 yards into the top corner but it’s well wide and over.
Arsenal looking dangerous but neither side have really come too close to troubling Leno or Ederson.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
23 min: SUB! Luiz is on for Mari. Arsenal have now used two substitutes already. They do have three more though…
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
Another Arsenal player is down now. Mari appears to have pulled something and David Luiz is ready to come into the fold.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
20 min: Walker steams forward for City and pulls the ball back for England teammate Raheem Sterling. But Sterling looks to dummy and no-one is behind him.
Waste.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
17 min: Pace gone out of the game at the moment. Please, let’s not have another 0-0…
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
13 min: Saka breaks for Arsenal and whips a dangerous in-swinging ball towards Nketiah who gets across his man but can only flick the ball wide of the goal.
Not bad from the youngsters.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
Meanwhile, Man City’s last home defeat came in December in a 2-1 defeat to Manchester United.
United also beat them in their final fixture before the coronavirus pandemic disruption as City went down 2-0 at Old Trafford.
Gunners on the march?
Arsenal’s last defeat came against Chelsea way back in December. They are currently eight points off a Champions League place in ninth.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
9 min: Mahrez thunders a ball across from a corner and it flicks off Bellerin before it can reach Sterling.
Goal kick given. Should have been a corner.
City looking the more likely at the start of this game, but Arsenal are showing their speed on the break.
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