Mesut Ozil shifts the ball onto his left foot and stabs a shot out on goal, but Martin Kelly flings his right leg out to deflect it away.

A lovely pass from Luka Milivojevic picks out Timothy Fosu-Mensah, but the defender's touch is poor and from an angle he slices the shot high into the stands.

Alex Scott
Arsenal Ladies & former England international on Final Score

The pace of Arsenal's play right now, it's one and two touch, it's so great to watch.

What do you do if you're playing for a shell-shocked Palace? Not giving the ball away and then fouling Mohamed Elneny if you're Timothy Fosu-Mensah, although there's no card from referee Chris Kavanagh.

Roy Hodgson must feel like he's seeing all his hard work disappear in front of his eyes. Still time for a comeback of the season contender, though...

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A goal and an assist for Nacho Monreal inside 10 minutes - lovely stuff if he's in your fantasy team as well.

Arsenal's first real attack sees Alex Iwobi force a corner from a Wayne Hennessey save.

The Eagles can make nothing of it, but they've had a good start.

Palace still camping out in the Arsenal half, with Patrick van Aanholt flicking over a tempting low cross towards Wilfried Zaha that Shkodran Mustafi has to glance behind for a corner.

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Early pressure from the away side until Alexandre Lacazette intervenes with a nice backheel to find Jack Wilshere, giving Arsenal time on the ball until Nacho Monreal carelessly sticks the ball out of play

And we're off, with Palace getting us under way in their all black away kit.

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Just before we start, everyone in the Emirates Stadium rises to show their appreciation of the late Cyrille Regis with a minute's applause.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport at Turf Moor

Lots of unsubstantiated rumours about Alexis Sanchez.

So far today I have been told Sanchez is having a medical, that the deals for the Chilean to join Manchester United and Henrikh Mkhitaryan to join Arsenal are done, that Sanchez has flown to Manchester and that nothing has changed from yesterday.

It is going to happen. I think I speak for most reporters covering this story when I say I wish they would hurry up.

The teams are out on the pitch, emerging from the tunnel into the incessant rain. Plenty of ponchos on display in those rows of seats exposed to the conditions - even in the VIP sections.

Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: "The fact is we're still in a relegation battle. We're not alone now, we're a little bit less isolated than we were some weeks and months ago and we're happy, of course, about that.

"But we're still in a bigger group of teams now who must be aware that unless they can keep their form going, unless they can keep points coming in, unless they can keep performances at the very highest level, they're going to be involved in a scrap to stay in the league right to the end."

But the Eagles are in decent form, and have not lost away in the league in five...

Steve Wilson
Match of the Day commentator

Almost the last thing Arsenal fans have been thinking about this week is actual football. It's all been about Sanchez, Mikhitaryan and Aubameyang, and who would have thought that Theo Walcott leaving would barely generate a headline?

Anyway, the 'actual football' has not been going too well for Arsenal, so perhaps it's as well not to dwell on that.

Roy Hodgson is two years older than Arsene Wenger, but whilst some Gunners' fans think their boss is past his best, Palace supporters are wishing eternal youth on Hodgson.

The man discarded by England (fair enough) and ridiculed (not fair enough) after Euro 2016, has the kind of spring in his step and twinkle in his eye which Wenger seems to have lost long ago.

Alistair Bruce-Ball
BBC Radio 5 live at Emirates Stadium

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There’s no mention of Alexis Sanchez in Arsene Wenger’s programme notes as his move is yet to go through but the Arsenal manager is effusive in his praise of Theo Walcott who left for Everton this week after 12 years at the club.

“Personally I’m very attached to him because he is a person who is intelligent, has complete integrity, total commitment and focus on his job. He was also a mental and moral leader in the dressing room and he’s a big loss on that front as well.”

Wenger also describes last Sunday’s defeat at Bournemouth as “baffling” and says “I’m concerned about the fact that when it matters we are not dangerous enough and we are not sound enough at the back.”