While Steve Bruce and Mikel Arteta deliver their half-time team talks at St James', let's go back to find out what is happening at Old Trafford...

All the chat coming into the match was about Arsenal's woes and Newcastle having a good chance to get a rare win over the gunners.

That hasn't panned out, has it?

Arsenal have had 13 shots so far - their most in the first half of a Premier League game since February 2018 v Everton (13).

I said I'd tell you that Aubameyang anecdote, didn't I? Not sure how exciting it is. But anyway... the Arsenal superstar was part of the Gabon squad which was based in Newcastle at the London 2012 Olympics.

Think he was playing for St Etienne and a few years off being the household name he is now.

And his first match on English soil came against a bunch of Newcastle part-timers on a Sunday league pitch.

One for those lads to tell the grandkids! Check out the extraordinary pictures here., external

Poor from Newcastle, professional from Arsenal.

Mohamed Elneny's lovely early strike separates the two sides.

(Yes, you read that right. Elneny!)

We're well into the two minutes of stoppage time which Newcastle have to try and get back into the game before the break.

Not looking likely that they will salvage anything before the half-time oranges.

Pat Nevin
Former Chelsea and Scotland winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

There's a real comfort about Arsenal but we've watched them too often this season to say its going to stay this way.

Newcastle will ask questions with the pace they've got. I'm not saying Arsenal will fold, but when their confidence goes down they are a totally different side.

Half a chance for Newcastle. They burst down the left but, with only Callum Wilson in the box, can't find him and Arsenal block the attempted cross.

Arsenal quickly move the ball up the other end after winning back possession and Miguel Almiron, who quickly scampers back to defend, gives away a free-kick on the edge of the Newcastle box.

He got booked a few moments ago, but Mike Dean waves away the Arsenal players who are reminding him of that.

Nothing doing from the free-kick by the way. Martin Odegaard's effort was poor.

Newcastle inject some pace through Miguel Almiron, who bursts forward like he's got jets in his heels.

He slips the ball forward to Callum Wilson, but the Newcastle striker slips and stumbles on the ball inside the Arsenal half. Chance gone.

Jonjo Shelvey goes more direct in a bid to alleviate the pressure, spraying a ball out right to Allan Saint-Maximin. The Frenchman can't get the ball under control though to trouble Granit Xhaka.

Newcastle have had just the one shot on target...

Still Arsenal are dominating at St James' Park and looking likelier to score the second of the game.

Dani Ceballos's cute throughball almost slices open the Newcastle defence, before Gabriel Martinelli tries to get round the side on the left.

A couple of let-offs for Newcastle, but they can't continue to allow Arsenal have such a free ride.

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer at Old Trafford

Members of the media are currently locked outside the as the gates of their usual entrances remain shut and the Old Trafford stadium is put on lockdown as thousands of Manchester United fans continue their protests against the owners.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport at Old Trafford

Thousands of Manchester United fans began a protest against the club’s owners at Old Trafford this afternoon.

Scores of green and gold flares - the colours of United’s first shirts when they were Newton Heath and the original anti-Glazer protests in 2010 - were set off at the start of the protest at 14:00BST.

It is understood other protesters went to the team hotel ahead of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side’s departure for this afternoon’s Premier League game against Liverpool.Hundreds of fans have been on the pitch and many are now exiting through gates across a road that normally allows the team buses through.

No media are being allowed through the gates as normal until the situation is cleared.

It is understood the Premier League, who have a compliance officer on site, do not belief there is an issue about the game going ahead from a purely coronavirus perspective as there was no admission to dressing rooms.

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More from that extraordinary story at Old Trafford. According to BBC journalists there, the fans are starting to leave the pitch and there is no danger of the match being affected.

Mohamed Elneny has turned into Ian Wright! Well, almost. The Arsenal midfielder also doubles his tally for the club - both today and in his career - with a flying header that Jonjo Shelvey has to head off the line.

That's why you have a man on the post...