Arsenal 0-0 Leicester LIVE: Premier League score, goals and updates; Mesut Ozil starts

Arsenal vs Leicester: Express Sport brings you LIVE Premier League coverage from the Emirates Stadium

ARSENAL 0-0 LEICESTER

Arsenal XI: Leno, Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Lichtsteiner, Mkhitaryan, Torreira, Xhaka, Ozil, Iwobi, Lacazette

Leicester XI: Schmeichel, Amartey, Evans, Maguire, Chilwell, Pereira, Mendy, Ndidi, Maddison, Iheanacho, Vardy

• Aaron Ramsey and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on bench

ARSENAL 0-0 LEICESTER

11: Alex Iwobi looks to skip inside and square the ball over to Alexandre Lacazette but he showed Amartey too much of the ball. Nice to see Iwobi improving under Unai Emery – he seemed to stagnate with Arsene Wenger.

8: Penalty appeal! Frantic stuff here at the Emirates. Arsenal want a penalty when Amartey and Ozil collide inside the area but referee Chris Kavanagh isn’t interested. Rightly so.

5: Save! And again Leicester break away to nearly make the breakthrough. Maddison nips down the left before squaring it to Iheanacho. The striker sets himself before seeing a curling effort palmed away.

3: Great pressing from Leicester in the early stages. Perhaps with Aubameyang on the bench Claude Puel’s side are more comfortable pushing higher up the field.

Wow! Leicester close to taking the lead inside three minutes. Iheanacho catches Lichtsteiner 20-yards out of position and he drives down the left flank before cutting inside and seeing a deflected strike rise above the crossbar. Rob Holding with the block.

Very early warning for Arsenal.

ARSENAL 0-0 LEICESTER

1: And we’re off! Good atmosphere for a Monday night inside the Emirates.

Two-minute warning

19:58: We’re almost underway folks. I will be accepting you predictions. I think this is going to have goals. 4-2 to Arsenal, is that just stupid?

Balance – Emery

19:55: Arsenal manager Unai Emery: ”We are doing a lot of things tactically and different combinations every matches. The first eleven with Alexandre Lacazette, Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan and the players on the bench are important. We cannot play with certain striker doing the matches and we want to give balance with the midfielders to control the way we want.

“Leicester are a very good team, near to us in the table and we need to win today. We have to have a competitive 90 minutes and we need to continue improving and imposing every day.”

Twitter round-up

Rezaa: Arsenal will struggle tonight with Mesut Ozil in the team. No tracking back or defensive contribution against a counter attacking Leicester. Aaron Ramsey should’ve started.

Kyle: Arsenal are still a work in progress but 9 wins in a row is sensational after back to back defeats to Chelsea and City. Arsenal were a joy to watch against Fulham and Emery is doing a great job so far. Iwobi and Welbeck and Bellerin have improved a lot.

Charles: What an important game for Arsenal…a win tonight is a real sign-post for our future prosperity…it’s going to be tough, Leicester often have our number. Score will be 4-3…no, 0-0…2-0…1-2…8…11? What I’m saying is that I don’t know how good/bad we are yet.

Confidence

19:40: James Maddison insists he always believed he would make an instant impact in the Premier League.

Same here – that’s why I need you to save my fantasy football team tonight, James! The 21-year-old has thrived in the top flight since his £24million summer move from Norwich.

“I always believe in my own ability, that I can come to this level and have an effect,” he said. “I wouldn’t use the word easy, as you come up against some really tough opponents, but it’s been a step up and one I’ve relished.

“Hopefully I can keep my form high and my performances good and we can carry it out for the rest of the season. It’s never easy to be a regular in the starting XI, but I’ve worked hard in pre-season and my performances have been relatively good, so I think I’ve been deserving of the starts.”

Always wanted him

19:35: Unai Emery taking a leaf out of Harry ‘always wanted him’ Redknapp’s book here. And a lesson from David ‘we nearly signed him’ Moyes.

Emery believes Alexandre Lacazette can only get better after admitting he tried to sign the striker while at PSG.

The 27-year-old joined from Lyon having scored 60 times in his last two campaigns in France – form that attracted the attention of Emery, who was then in charge of rivals PSG.

Emery was working with the likes of Edinson Cavani and Neymar at the Parc des Princes – with Kylian Mbappe also moving to the French capital last year.

But the Arsenal boss refused to compare the forwards – revealing Lacazette was a target ahead of his move to Arsenal.

“They are different players, it is very difficult to compare,” Emery said. “But for example, when I arrived at PSG we were thinking to sign Lacazette.

“His quality and his characteristics also we liked at PSG. Also, the people who were working there, they said to us, ‘This player has the quality to play for PSG’ when we were there. He was at Lyon and it wasn’t easy to have the conversation or to sign a player from Lyon or from PSG for Lyon. He was an option for us.”

Claude questions credentials

19:30: Blimey, mild-mannered Claude Puel with a jab to the kidneys. Where did that come from?!

Puel believes it is too soon to label Arsenal genuine title contenders.

Arsenal will break into the top four with victory tonight, but Puel is prepared to reserve judgement over whether they can win a first title since 2004.

“We will see. He started with some difficulties and lost the first two games but after they have worked and played well to win games in the cup, Europa League and Premier League,” Puel said. “They can have good confidence for the future, but for the title I don’t know. It is just the beginning of the season and the Premier League has a lot of possibilities.”

Wait, what?!

19:25: I see Leicester’s social media accounts have taken to predicting the future.

On Friday, the Foxes twitter account posted an image of Jamie Vardy clenching his fist with the words: “Goal. Jamie Vardy. 0-1.”

The tweet was removed quickly – but not quick enough for those eagle-eyed Leicester supporters! Should this happen, I’ll be asking for tomorrow’s Champions League results. £££.

Don’t get carried away!

19:20: That’s the message coming from Unai Emery, who has urged supporters to keep a lid on their expectations.

Since defeat to Manchester City and Chelsea in the opening two games of the season, Emery has lead his new side to wins in every game.

Arsenal can move two points off the top of the table if they see off the Foxes at the Emirates Stadium – but Emery wants to keep things in perspective.

“Manchester City and Chelsea were the first two games,” he said. “They are two teams in form and with two points more than us. Their qualities and performances are very, very high. But also we are doing our way and we improving our things.

“We need to carry on to find our best individual and collective performance to stay close to them.

“But I say to you: we need to get better in a lot of things now. It is our best target now, don’t stop. Think and analyse with the players to improve this.”

Twitter round-up

Daniel: Looking forward to seeing exactly where Arsenal are as a team tonight. Been on a great run but had some favourable games. Expect Leicester to be a stiffer test but one I think Emery and co will overcome.

Adam: First time The Arsenal have been on Monday Night Football in over 12 months! Looking forward to seeing Jamie Carragher pick the bones out of a 10 game win streak!

Fed: Ever since Jamie Vardy had that ONE party, he’s been on a party drought. 4-1 tonight.

But it was one hell of a party, Fed.

Team news – Arsenal

19:10: Unai Emery has made two changes to his side that thumped Fulham a few weeks ago.

Mesut Ozil returns to the starting XI in favour of Danny Welbeck, who drops to the bench. Stephan Lichtsteiner also comes in for the absent Nacho Monreal at left-back.

Not quite sure where Monreal OR Sead Kolasinac are. No mention of injuries from the club… yet!

Team news – Leicester

19:05: Nice and simple from Claude Puel, who makes one change from the side who lost at home to Everton before the international break.

As previously mentioned, Jonny Evans replaces the suspended Wes Morgan – a change that I think quite a few Leicester fans would like to see made permanent.

Kelechi Iheanacho and Jamie Vardy will look to hit Arsenal on the counter. Blistering pace with those two.

The line-ups

19:00: And here come the starting XI’s. Not too many surprises for Leicester with Jonny Evans replacing Wes Morgan, who serves a one-match suspension after being sent off against Everton.

Unai Emery makes changes with Stephan Lichtsteiner featuring ahead of Nacho Monreal. Mesut Ozil also starts.

Arsenal XI: Leno, Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Lichtsteiner, Mkhitaryan, Torreira, Xhaka, Ozil, Iwobi, Lacazette.

Subs: Martinez, Ramsey, Aubameyang, Welbeck, Guendouzi, Medley, Smith-Rowe.

Leicester XI: Schmeichel, Amartey, Evans, Maguire, Chilwell, Pereira, Mendy, Ndidi, Maddison, Iheanacho, Vardy.

Subs: Ward, Soyuncu, Albrighton, Okazaki, Iborra, Fuchs, Ghezzal.

Twitter round-up

Tommy: Genuinely looking forward to Monday Night Football for once. Arsenal vs Leicester should be a cracker!

Jeff: I have a gut negative feeling about tonight’s match – hope I’m very wrong. Worried that momentum will be halted.

Andy: This has been the longest 2 weeks ever. Absolutely buzzing now the international break is done.

Don’t get too ‘buzzed,’ Andy. There’s another one in three weeks…

Hello

18:50: Oh, I didn’t see you there…

Welcome to our LIVE coverage of the Premier League as Arsenal welcome Leicester to the Emirates.

It’s been a pretty interesting weekend of football with Jose Mourinho’s touchline scuffle being the main highlight – Roy Hodgson’s prickly interview was also a thoroughly awkward and enjoyable moment.

But I’ve got a feeling tonight’s showdown in North London could eclipse everything.

Arsenal can move two points off the top of the table and secure a 10th straight win if they see off the Foxes.

So if you’re on public transport, out and about or being subjected to terrible terrestrial television – I’m ready to keep you updated with all the action.

Let’s have the team news and line-ups, shall we?

ARSENAL vs LEICESTER

Arsenal could welcome back Mesut Ozil having missed the win at Fulham due to a back spasm. Danny Welbeck (hamstring) is also back in training.

Sokratis Papastathopoulos (ankle) will be assessed but Laurent Koscielny (Achilles) and Konstantinos Mavropanos (groin) are still missing as Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Petr Cech return from leg and hamstring injuries respectively.

Leicester captain Wes Morgan serves a one-match suspension after being sent off against Everton before the international break. Matty James (Achilles) and Demarai Gray (ankle) are out.

Last season: Leicester 3 Arsenal 1, Arsenal 4 Leicester 3

Last five league matches: Arsenal W W W W W; Leicester L L W W L

Top scorers: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 6; Jamie Vardy and James Maddison (Leicester) 3

Referee: Chris Kavanagh