Arsenal v Brentford: Premier League – live

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Pictured celebrating the second free-kick he scored against Real Madrid, Declan Rice is the cover star of today’s match programme. Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty Images

A peek inside the Arsenal dressing-room prior to this evening’s match against Brentford. Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty Images

Today’s match officials

Referee: Simon Hooper.
Assistants: Adrian Holmes and Simon Long.
Fourth official: Will Finnie.

VAR: James Bell.
Assistant VAR: Nick Greenhalgh.

Simon Hooper leads today’s team of match officials at the Emirates Stadium. Photograph: Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty Images

Those teams: Unsurprisingly, Mikel Arteta makes five changes to the side that lined up against Real Madrid, with Jurrien Timber, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Mikel Merino all dropping to the bench for this evening’s game.

Kieran Tierney, Jorginho, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Leandro Trossard and EthanNwaneri come into the side that will face Brentford this evening. Jorginho will captain the side in the absence of Martin Odegaard. There’s no place for Ben White in the matchday squad, the defender having picked up a knock in training.

Thomas Frank makes just one chanfe to the Bees side that drew with Chelsea last time out. Vitaly Yanelt comes into midfield, with Yehor Yarmoliuk making way. Plagued with injury all season and yet to make his debut for Brentford after signing from Gremio last August, the 19-year-old winger Gustavo Nunes is on the bench after recovering from a back injury.

Brazilian winger Gustavo Nunes has yet to make his debut for Brentford after signing from Gremio for £10m plus add-ons. Photograph: Carla Carniel/Reuters

Arsenal v Brentford line-ups

Arsenal: Raya, Partey, Saliba, Kiwior, Tierney, Jorginho, Zinchenko, Rice, Nwaneri, Martinelli, Trossard.

Subs: Neto, Timber, Lewis-Skelly, Henry-Francis, Odegaard, Saka, Merino, Butler-Oyedeji, Sterling.

Brentford: Flekken; Ajer, Collins, Van den Berg, Lewis-Potter; Norgaard, Janelt, Damsgaard; Schade, Wissa, Mbeumo

Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Mee, Yarmoliuk, Konak, Kayode, Nunes

Early team news

Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka may be rested after picking up knocks in the Real Madrid game, a state of affairs that could lead to Jorginho and Ethan Nwaneri getting starts. Raheem Sterling is also available after missing out on the Real Madrid game through suspension.

Gabriel, Kai Havertz, Riccardo Calafiori, Gabriel Jesus and Takehiro Tomiyasu all remain sidelined, although Mikel Arteta revealed yesterday that Havertz is likely to return from his hamstring injury before the end of the season.

For Brentford, Rico Henry is available for selection after returning from the hamstring injury that has kept him sidelined since January and could make what would be only his third appearance of the season. Fabio Carvalho, Aaron Hickey, Gustavo Nunes, Igor Thiago and Josh Dasilva all remain out.

Kai Havertz is likely to return before the end of the season as he steps up his recovery from the hamstring injury he suffered during Arsenal’s winter warm weather training camp in Dubai. Photograph: Jon Super/AP

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