Huddersfield vs Liverpool LIVE: Latest score plus Aubameyang to Arsenal transfer news

Huddersfield vs Liverpool LIVE updates: Express Sport brings you the latest Premier League scores and transfer updates including Arsene Wenger’s pursuit of Borussia Dortmund star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

HUDDERSFIELD 0-0 LIVERPOOL

23: Successive corners for the visitors; Joel Matip meets the second but his effort hits the back of Steve Mounie and Aaron Mooy boots it clear. Liverpool struggling to break the hosts down – there’s almost no space for them to work in.

Emre Can shoots from distance but Lossl gathers.

SWANSEA 1-1 ARSENAL – CLUCAS

35: Good grief, maybe Arsene Wenger needs to spend the Aubameyang money on a new defender?

There’s an instant response from Swansea. Sam Clucas coolly slots past Petr Cech after being played through by Alfie Mawson

SWANSEA 0-1 ARSENAL – MONREAL

33: What on earth has happened to Nacho Monreal?! The full-back has his name on the scoresheet again after prodding home Mesut Ozil’s cross.

Who needs Aubameyang when you’ve got Nacho?

BREAKING TRANSFER NEWS

20:20: A source in France is claiming that Mathieu Debuchy is in talks with Arsenal over a mutual termination agreement, so that he can join St Étienne for free.

HUDDERSFIELD 0-0 LIVERPOOL

15: Liverpool are finding it really difficult to find space tonight. Jurgen Klopp’s side need to gamble a bit more but they’re clearly terrified of conceding.

SWANSEA 0-0 ARSENAL

28: Olivier Giroud has already been sent out to warm up on the sidelines. He’ll have to come on if Arsenal continue to play this badly.

Alfie Mawson’s effort from the edge of the box deflects just wide of the post!

WEST HAM 0-1 CRYSTAL PALACE – BENTEKE

25: Maybe it won’t be last on Match of the Day…

The Eagles have taken the lead against injury-plagued West Ham. Andros Townsend drives down the right-hand side and stands a lovely cross up in the box for Christian Benteke to head in from eight yards.

WEST HAM 0-0 CRYSTAL PALACE

23: We’ve got a contender for last game on Match of the Day already. It’s a real scrap at the London Stadium. The Eagles have a free-kick in a decent position after Zaha was hacked down but Adrian punches it away.

SWANSEA 0-0 ARSENAL

20: Arsenal still haven’t arrived tonight, I wonder if they’re distracted by transfer deadline day? Clucas is in on goal but Elneny slides in to steal it off his toes.

HUDDERSFIELD 0-0 LIVERPOOL

3: Decent start from the visitors. A lot more urgency than Jurgen Klopp’s side have shown in recent weeks. No chances yet.

HUDDERSFIELD 0-0 LIVERPOOL

1: And we’re underway in the third and final game of the evening. The atmosphere is absolutely bouncing at the John Smiths Stadium. This is going to be tough for the visitors.

WEST HAM 0-0 CRYSTAL PALACE

14: Should be 1-0. Javier Hernandez looks certain to give his side the lead after capitalising on a loose ball but Tomkins throws his body in the way.

BREAK TRANSFER NEWS

19:58: Sky Sports claim that Manchester City are prepared to make a third bid for Leicester winger Riyad Mahrez. It’s said Pep Guardiola’s side are willing to pay £58million.

SWANSEA 0-0 ARSENAL

10: Fabulous tackle from Aaron Ramsey! The Welshman makes a crucial interception to prevent Alfie Mawson from converting Dyer’s cross at the back post.

MY EYES!

19:53: Mam, I appreciate your enthusiasm and understand how difficult it probably was to make that abomination, but will you please never let it see the light of day again? Please and thank you.

WEST HAM 0-0 CRYSTAL PALACE

7: Chance for Joao Mario! Great knock down by Javier Hernandez but Mario can’t get a clean connection. That would have been a dream start to his Hammers career.

SWANSEA 0-0 ARSENAL

5: The hosts have started brightly. Clearly their win over Liverpool has done their confidence some good. Not seen much from Arsenal yet.

WE’RE UNDERWAY

19:45: Swansea vs Arsenal and West Ham vs Crystal Palace are now underway folks. Let the mayhem begin!

STEVIE KNOWS…

19:43: Steven Gerrard, who’s on BT Sports this evening, thinks Jurgen Klopp dropped Virgil van Dijk to the bench for tonight’s trip to Huddersfield because he wants to avoid him picking up a serious injury.

“Well he is fit,” Gerrard said.

“The manager said it’s rotation. You can understand it, he’s had a lot of time out injured, he’s come to a new club, he’s still settling in. 

“He probably doesn’t want to risk him for three games in a week in case he does get a big injury and is out for a big chunk of the season.”

ALMOST UNDERWAY

19:40: Just five minutes before the first two Premier League games are underway folks. Huddersfield vs Liverpool starts at 8pm. I will now be accepting predictions. Three away wins, right?

TWITTER ROUND-UP

Tom: The Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang transfer is currently held up whilst he learns to play ‘we hate Tottenham’ on piano…

Daniel: The amount of times that I’ve searched up Aubameyang transfer news could be considered nothing short of insanely unhealthy, I really hope this deal goes through!

Remi: We attracted one of the best CF’s in the world – Aubameyang, without Champions League football this season or the assurance of qualification next season, without the oil money and without an unreasonable and hefty wage. Thats a huge statement!

DONNARUMMA TO LIVERPOOL… 

19:30: Now here’s one to excite Liverpool supporters.

Jurgen Klopp’s side should look to sign AC Milan teenage sensation Gianluigi Donnarumma to solve their goalkeeping problems, according to ESPN FC pundit and former West Ham goalkeeper Shaka Hislop.

Nice plan, Shaka. I think they should sign Lionel Messi…

“Realistically, they should go after Donnarumma. I don’t think Liverpool have the right goalkeeper on their books right now,” Hislop said.

“As much as they chop and they change, until they go after a talent like Donnarumma, I think they’re going to continue having these issues.”

I BLAME TELEVISION…

19:25: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has claimed television demands meant the first half of their 3-2 FA Cup fourth round defeat to West Brom was cut short.

Match official Craig Pawson added on just four minutes despite there being three major incidents requiring consultation with the video assistant referee – including a three minute 54 second delay in the awarding of a penalty – as well as two injuries and subsequent substitutions.

“What I heard was that the actual extra time in the first half should have been 10 minutes,” said Klopp.

“It was only four minutes. I heard that television said it’s not longer than four minutes. Of course that’s not possible: you cannot cut match time because there is something else to broadcast.

“I don’t know what was afterwards, maybe the news or something. It was 10 minutes and so you need to play 10 minutes longer. You cannot say it’s now a little bit too long.”

Klopp has also blamed a dry pitch, the wind and and a spout of illnesses for past defeats…

DO CHELSEA HOLD THE KEY?

19:20: Arsenal’s transfer dreams might just rest in Chelsea’s hands. That’s never a good thing.

So we know that Dortmund will only sanction Aubameyang’s departure if they sign a replacement.

And that man is Michy Batshuayi.

BBC reporter David Ornstein, who boasts some of the most hilarious memes on the internet, is firmly in the loop.

He claims that everything was sorted for Batshuayi to join Dortmund with Olivier Giroud heading to Chelsea for £20m.

A nice little merry-go-round, right? Wrong.

It appears that Chelsea are trying to lower Giroud’s asking price at the last second, which has led to Arsenal threatening to loan him to Dortmund instead.

Not sure what Giroud thinks about all this, but will obviously need to agree terms so the deals can get done.

I’m exhausted. Talk amongst yourselves while I have a glass of water.

TWITTER ROUND-UP

Saquib: Virgil van Dijk on the bench?! Does he need time to adapt to the Premier League? No!

Al: Can’t understand why Van Dijk isn’t playing. We need to build a partnership! How is Jurgen Klopp a Premier League manager?! Absolute fraud.

Gavin: Van Dijk apparently not injured. Just rested. £75million for someone who can’t play two games in four days…

AUBBBBAAAAAAA

19:10: Aaaand back to the transfer news.

It looks like Arsenal’s move for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is expected to go down to the wire as the Gunners wait on Borussia Dortmund landing a replacement before allowing the striker to leave.

A deal has been agreed in principle between the two clubs – subject to Dortmund bringing in their own forward with Aubameyang’s medical scheduled for tomorrow morning.

Arsenal have until 11pm tomorrow to get the transfer over the line and it could be touch and go given all of the factors and logistics at play.

HAVE YOUR SAY

19:05: If you want to vent your frustrations, or discuss any issues in the world of football (within reason), then get in touch!

You can either comment at the bottom of the page or contact me via Twitter using the hashtag #ExpressSport.

HUDDERSFIELD vs LIVERPOOL

19:00: Eh? You’re going through a defensive crisis and you decide to bench your £75million signing. Yep, Virgil van Dijk starts on the bench this evening with Dejan Lovren replacing him.

Huddersfield XI: Lossl, Kongolo, Hogg, Biling, Mooy, Lowe, Depoitre, Mounie, Zanka, Schindler, Hadergjonaj.

Subs: Coleman, Smith, Van la Parra, Pritchard, Ince, Quaner, Hefele.

Liverpool XI: Karius, Lovren, Gomez, Robertson, Matip, Can, Henderson, Milner, Firmino, Salah, Mane.

Subs: Mignolet, Van Dijk, Wijnaldum, Oxlade-Chamberlin, Ings, Solanke, Alexander-Arnold.

TWITTER ROUND-UP

Kieran: How many times do we see stronger, better footballers start behind Alex Iwobi and Mohamed Elneny! We have a new signing who, yes, hasn’t had a great time thus far, but even on a bad day he’s better than Iwobi!

PJ: How can Olivier Giroud be in the squad and agree a deal with Chelsea?

Tom: I can’t believe Mkhitaryan is not starting. Baffling late decision. Wilshere not playing either which comes as a slight surprise.

WEST HAM vs CRYSTAL PALACE

18:50: Apparently West Ham can field a starting XI despite all their injury concerns. Very impressive. There’s another debut this evening and that’s for loanee Joao Mario, who starts.

West Ham XI: Adrian, Cresswell, Zabaleta, Byram, Rice, Collins, Kouyate, Noble, Joao Mario, Ogbonna, Hernandez.

Subs: Hart, Fonte, Haksabanovic, Martinez, Cullen, Oxford, Quina.

Crystal Palace XI: Hennessey, van Aanholt, Tomkins, Fosu-Mensah, Kelly, Milivojevic, Bakary Sako, McArthur, Townsend, Zaha, Benteke.

Subs: Speroni, Ward, Cabaya, Sakho, Chung-yong, Souare, Riedewald.

SWANSEA vs ARSENAL

18:45: Henrikh Mkhitaryan is on the bench! The Armenia international, who arrived as part of the deal involving Alexis Sanchez, will have to make his debut from the bench in tonight’s match at the Liberty Stadium.

Swansea XI: Fabianski, Naughton, Van der Hoorn, Fernandez, Mawson, Olsson, Dyer, Fer, Ki, Clucas, Ayew.

Subs: Nordfeldt, Bony, Abraham, Carroll, Narsingh, Routledge, Bartley.

Arsenal XI: Cech, Koscielny, Elneny, Mustafi, Bellerin, Xhaka, Ramsey, Monreal, Iwobi, Ozil, Lacazette.

Subs: Ospina, Maitland-Niles, Mkhitaryan, Giroud, Chambers, Kolasinac, Nketiah.

TEAM NEWS KLAXON

18:44: Time for some line-ups? Alright then…

WHAT’S ON?

18:40: Let’s step away from the transfer window for a second (not literally) to concentrate on tonight’s matches.

HUDDERSFIELD vs LIVERPOOL

The Terriers will bid to halt a six-game winless run in the top flight to ease their relegation fears, while Jurgen Klopp’s men head to West Yorkshire on the back of two-straight defeats.

SWANSEA vs ARSENAL

The Gunners head to bottom side Swansea looking to build on their impressive wins over Crystal Palace and Chelsea last week.

WEST HAM vs CRYSTAL PALACE

David Moyes’ side are dealing with a lengthy list of absentees that include Marko Arnautovic and Manuel Lanzini for tonight’s six-pointer.

TRANSFER FRENZY

18:35: Usually ‘transfer frenzy’ would be considered too sensational for a headline, but things are getting crazy out there folks. Stay safe.

I’ll try to summarise the main stories in a brief sentence.

Here it goes… Olivier Giroud is on his way to Chelsea; Riyad Mahrez is trying to force his way to Manchester City by handing in a transfer request; Aubameyang will have his Arsenal medical tomorrow morning; Lucas Moura to Tottenham and Napoli are showing interest in Everton’s Davy Klaassen. 

I think the internet might just break on transfer deadline day.

EVENING

18:30: Welcome to our LIVE coverage of the Premier League.

Did you forget that there was football on tonight?

I did.

The January transfer market has reached such epic levels that I no longer know what day it is, or which games are on the television.

But a positive is that I can now spell Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with my eyes closed!

Anyway, I’ll be covering all the breaking transfer stories and keeping you updated with the goals from around the grounds.

Let’s get started!