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45 min +1: Wilson caught that ball flush on the lug, and he\u2019s felt it. But he\u2019ll be happy to continue.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min: There\u2019s no malice involved, but Zubimendi batters the ball into Wilson\u2019s face from close range. On comes the Fulham<\/a> physio yet again. As a result of all these stoppages, there will be six additional first-half minutes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 44 min: Saka is causing all sorts of bother down the right. This time he sails past Iwobi and forces Cuenca to head his cross behind for another Arsenal<\/a> corner. Saka whips it into the mixer, and Leno punches clear with confidence.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 43 min: King is fine to continue, though, so at least that\u2019s something. Play restarts.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 42 min: In the meantime, Andersen goes down. He can\u2019t continue, and limps off to be replaced by Diop. Fulham<\/a> are in the wars right now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 41 min: Arsenal<\/a> look to break upfield, only for the play to be stopped as King has taken a whack in the mush. That might have been friendly fire, as King, Jimenez and Rice all came together. Arsenal aren\u2019t happy about it, but what could the referee do?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 40 min: Saka delivers low to the near post. Gyokeres cushions it back to him. Saka crosses long. Trossard can\u2019t connect with a header. Arsenal<\/a> are on top now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 39 min: Saka dribbles hard down the right and nearly gets the better of Jimenez. He settles for a corner, which he\u2019ll take himself.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 38 min: Saka reaches the byline down the right and loops long for Calafiori, who certainly isn\u2019t shy of shooting. His volley creams over the crossbar. Leno had it covered.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 37 min: \u2026 and that prediction nearly comes to pass immediately. Saka slips a pass down the inside-right channel to release Gyokeres into the box. Gyokeres \u2013 taking just his third touch of the match \u2013 swivels and shoots low and hard. Leno parries. The looping ball doesn\u2019t drop kindly for Trossard, and the keeper claims.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 35 min: \u2026 so Calafiori gets fed up, strutting in from the left and looking for the top-right corner again. Andersen hangs out a leg and deflects wide left, and nothing comes of the corner. Meanwhile here\u2019s more from Fulham<\/a> fan and pre-match bag of pessimism Richard Hirst: \u201cSix shots to one, four corners to one: we all know how this is going to end. Who\u2019d be a football supporter?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 34 min: Arsenal<\/a> pass and probe, probe and pass, but Fulham hold their shape. The hosts happy to sit back for now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 33 min: Cairney is back up, but doesn\u2019t look wholly comfortable, still grasping his neck and shoulder. But he\u2019ll continue.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 31 min: Cairney is down feeling his right shoulder. On comes the physio.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 30 min: Eze cheaply ships possession to King, who makes off down the right. King looks to be going nowhere, turning tail, but then Eze makes a half-hearted attempt to close him down, allowing King to spin back and mishit a cross that nearly sails over Raya\u2019s head from a ludicrous angle. Raya, backtracking, is forced to slap over the bar. Nothing comes of the resulting corner. So close to an outrageous fluke.<\/p>\n Josh King of Fulham almost catches out Arsenal keeper David Raya with a mishit cross. Photograph: Javier Garc\u00eda\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.12 EDT<\/p>\n 28 min: King tries to release Wilson down the right, but Gabriel comes across, stepping in to take control and usher the ball back to Raya. A necessary defensive intervention.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 26 min: Much better from Iwobi here, as he waltzes in from the left and rolls a cute diagonal pass towards Wilson, on the right-hand edge of the D. Wilson tries to catch out Raya with a forensic shot towards the bottom right, but it\u2019s always heading wide. Might have been better to put his foot through that. It was a good chance, and a great pass from Iwobi.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 24 min: Iwobi probes down the left but upon reaching the corner flag, sees his cross ping off the nearby Timber, back off his startled face and out. Goal kick.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 22 min: Saka drives down the right and glides infield, at which point his shot is blocked the nanosecond the ball comes off his boot. Then a throw comes in from the left, but doesn\u2019t quite fall to Trossard. This is end-to-end all right.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 21 min: Arsenal<\/a> calm things down with some of the old sterile domination.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 19 min: One corner from the right leads to another \u2026 and then Jimenez is penalised for a not-particularly-high kick on Eze, who was ducking into a clearing header.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 18 min: Sessegnon advances down the left and crosses towards Jimenez, who is penalised for an overly physical stretch for the ball. Then Fulham<\/a> come again, King cutting in from the right and taking a shot from distance that\u2019s deflected over the bar. This is a really open game. It\u2019s great fun.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 16 min: Arsenal<\/a> put the ball in the net, in spectacular fashion. Timber sends a long diagonal towards Trossard on the left-hand corner of the box. Trossard high-kicks infield, where Calafiori instantly lashes across Leno and into the top-right corner! What a pearler! Unfortunately, he was clearly offside upon receiving the ball. The goal\u2019s immediately chalked off.<\/p>\n Arsenal’s Riccardo Calafiori reacts after his goal is chalked off. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.59 EDT<\/p>\n 15 min: Fulham will be happy with this start, though. They\u2019ve responded very well to Arsenal\u2019s earlier attempts to impose themselves, and carved out a couple of decent half-chances.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 13 min: Now Fulham<\/a> latch onto a Gabriel mistake, Wilson advancing down the inside-right channel and into the box. He attempts to steer a shot into the bottom left, but in circumventing Raya, he also sends the ball wide of the post.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 11 min: \u2026 but here come Fulham again, Wilson drifting down the right and rolling the ball infield for Jimenez, whose shot across Raya takes a deflection and rolls out for a corner. The set piece comes in from the left and is met first time by Cairney\u2019s sidefoot. The ball may be heading into the bottom left, it may not, but we\u2019ll never know for sure, because instead it slaps poor Zubimendi square in the fruit bowl. Arsenal<\/a> clear as their brave midfielder catches in breath.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 10 min: King snaffles the ball in the centre circle and finds Jimenez, who in turn looks for Wilson down the right. The pass is too strong and the move breaks down. A shame for Fulham<\/a>, as a better weighted ball would have sent Wilson through on goal.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9 min: Rice slips a pass down the inside-left channel for Gyokeres, who reaches the byline and cuts back to \u2026 nobody in particular. Andersen blooters clear.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8 min: Sessegnon skittles Saka out on the right. The free kick\u2019s worked to Calafiori on the other flank. Calafiori sends the ball back into the mixer, where Sessegnon makes up for his earlier intervention with a clearing header.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 7 min: Arsenal<\/a> are beginning to find their feet. Rice and Zubimendi seeing a fair bit of the ball in the middle.<\/p>\n Arsenal’s Declan Rice holds off a challenge from Fulham\u2019s Josh King. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.55 EDT<\/p>\n 6 min: A bit of space for Trossard down the left. He slices his cross into the stand behind the goal. Probably for the best, as King looked to have been illegally knocked over earlier in the move, but the referee waved play on, much to the home support\u2019s ire.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 4 min: Gyokeres nearly gets on the end of a simple long punt down the middle. The ball doesn\u2019t quite fall for him, and Leno is able to come off his line to claim. But for a second, the striker\u2019s eyes were lighting up.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 3 min: All a bit scrappy so far.<\/p>\n Arsenal’s Viktor Gyokeres tussles with Fulham’s Jorge Cuenca. Photograph: David Klein\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.51 EDT<\/p>\n 2 min: Arsenal<\/a> are kicking towards the Hammersmith End in this first half.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.33 EDT<\/p>\n The players take a knee \u2013 there\u2019s No Room For Racism<\/a> \u2013 and then Fulham get the ball rolling. Plenty of noise, joyous bedlam, London derby, all that.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The teams emerge from the Cottage. Fulham in white, Arsenal<\/a> in second-choice blue. A heady atmosphere down by the river. It won\u2019t be too long now.<\/p>\n The Fulham and Arsenal players take to the pitch. Photograph: Alex Pantling\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.38 EDT<\/p>\n Marco Silva talks to Sky. \u201c[To have Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez back] is crucial \u2026 we have two strikers who have been scoring more than 20 goals a season together \u2026 we miss Rodrigo [Muniz] \u2026 it is crucial to have at least one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Mikel Arteta, exuding determination, speaks to Sky Sports. \u201cWe have to learn from the [mistakes of the] very recent past \u2026 improve as a team \u2026 we have done it against Newcastle and West Ham \u2026 now after three years of not winning [at Craven Cottage] we must do it against Fulham<\/a> \u2026 it is about momentum \u2026 flexibility \u2026 options \u2026 Fulham have a high level of organisation \u2026 patterns \u2026 a real threat \u2026 it is always a challenge to play here.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Pre-match postbag o\u2019pessimism. \u201cMarco Silva\u2019s team selections are getting more and more weird, and we\u2019re most definitely going to be in the relegation struggle,\u201d sighs Richard Hirst. \u201cLove what Tom Cairney has given Fulham but he is not the player to take on this Arsenal midfield; we could be swamped today. Let\u2019s just hope No Kings only applies in the States<\/a> and that Josh finally gets some luck to go with his skill.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Arsenal started the day atop the Premier League. Now, for a couple of hours at least, they\u2019ve been knocked off their perch. Barry Glendenning has the details of Manchester City\u2019s win over Everton in today\u2019s Clockwatch.<\/a> No change for Fulham, who remain in 14th place. A draw this evening will be enough for Arsenal to reclaim top spot, while Fulham can climb into the top half, though they\u2019d need to win by three clear goals to leapfrog tenth-placed Everton.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n That victory over West Ham sent Arsenal<\/a> top. Ed Aarons takes a gander at 20 years\u2019 worth of data and explains why that ostensibly welcome state of affairs for the Gunners comes with absolutely no guarantees whatsoever.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a while \u2026 so here\u2019s a reminder of what happened to both teams last time around.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Fulham make three changes to their starting line-up following their 3-1 loss at Bournemouth. Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez, Jorge Cuenca and captain Tom Cairney return, at the expense of Issa Diop and Calvin Bassey, who are benched, and the injured Sa\u0161a Luki\u0107. Antonee Robinson and Rodrigo Muniz are also unavailable.<\/p>\n Arsenal make just one change to their starting XI after their 2-0 home win over West Ham. Martin \u00d8degaard is injured, so in comes Mart\u00edn Zubimendi.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.05 EDT<\/p>\n The teams<\/p>\n Fulham: Leno, Castagne, Andersen, Cuenca, Sessegnon, Berge, Cairney, Wilson, King, Iwobi, Jimenez. Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Eze, Zubimendi, Rice, Saka, Gyokeres, Trossard. Referee: Anthony Taylor. Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.34 EDT<\/p>\n Preamble<\/p>\n
Subs: Lecomte, Tete, Bassey, Reed, Traore, Kusi-Asare, Kevin, Diop, Smith Rowe.<\/p>\n
Subs: Arrizabalaga, Mosquera, White, Martinelli, Norgaard, Nwaneri, Merino, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman.<\/p>\n
VAR: Stuart Attwell.<\/p>\n