Premier League LIVE: Arsenal v Man Utd, Man City v Watford, Brentford v Tottenham score, commentary & updates

Summary

Tottenham held to goalless draw at Brentford in day's late game
Result: Man City 5-1 Watford - Jesus (4) and Rodri; Kamara for visitors
Man City go four points clear at top
Result: Norwich 0-3 Newcastle - Joelinton (2) & Guimaraes
Result: Leicester 0-0 Aston Villa
Result: Arsenal 3-1 Man Utd - Gunners go fourth, six points clear of opponents
Tavares, Saka and Xhaka with Arsenal goals, Ronaldo scores for Man Utd

Live Reporting

Emma Sanders

A proper rivalrypublished at 11:37 British Summer Time 23 April 2022
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Unlike this current wholesome, sporting, respectful rivalry between Liverpool and Man City, Arsenal and Manchester United is the real deal.
Spiteful, ferocious, nasty, covered in lobbed pizza - it is everything you'd want from a football feud.
Here are some of it's finest aggro moments...
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Team news - Ronaldo returns as Man Utd make five changespublished at 11:34 British Summer Time 23 April 2022
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Eddie Nketiah keeps his place after scoring twice in Arsenal's 4-2 win at Chelsea in midweek.
The Gunners make just the one change to the starting line-up, with Cedric Soares replacing Rob Holding in defence.
Arsenal: Ramsdale, Soares, White, Gabriel, Nuno Tavares, Odegaard, Smith Rowe, Elneny, Saka, Nketiah.
Subs: Lacazette, Holding, Tomiyasu, Pepe, Sambi Lokonga, Martinelli, Azeez, Swanson, Leno.
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Cristiano Ronaldo returns as Manchester United make five changes to the side which lost 4-0 at Liverpool in midweek.
Harry Maguire, Phil Jones, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford all drop out, with the others coming in being Raphael Varane, Alex Telles, Jadon Sancho and Scott McTominay.
Man Utd: De Gea, Dalot, Lindelof, Varane, Telles, Sancho, Matic, McTominay, Fernandes, Elanga, Ronaldo.
Subs: Bailly, Jones, Maguire, Mata, Rashford, Lingard, Wan-Bissaka, Garnacho, Henderson.
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Breaking team newspublished at 11:30 British Summer Time 23 April 2022
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Cristiano Ronaldo is back up front for Manchester United following his compassionate leave. Raphael Varane is in defence. Harry Maguire is on the bench.
Full info on the United selection roulette and Arsenal's starting XI in a moment or two...
Race for the CLpublished at 11:26 British Summer Time 23 April 2022
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So, that race for a top-four spot.
There have been a few twists and turns of late, with Brighton and Southampton chucking some spanners in the works.
It remains toight... like a toiger.
Arsenal win today and they sneak ahead. Man Utd win and they're right back in it. Tottenham? Well, they will likely be in their usual position of just hoping their north London rivals drop points.
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Scramble for fourthpublished at 11:22 British Summer Time 23 April 2022
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We'll get to all those title-race shenanigans in a bit, though. As important as City's game against Watford is, it doesn't take top billing today.
That honour goes to the latest encounter in a long-standing Premier League rivalry. Arsenal and Manchester United were the Liverpool and Manchester City of the late 1990s and early 2000s, fighting each other for titles, cups and, well, just fighting each other full stop.
Today, though, they go head-to-head for a more humble but still extremely crucial achievement for both - nabbing one of those all-important Champions League spots.
The lunchtime kick-off today gives the fans of each a nerve-wracking, emotional rollercoaster to endure. And the rest of us potentially something to rubberneck at.
Tussle at the toppublished at 11:19 British Summer Time 23 April 2022
Pep Guardiola is under no illusions.
Such is the form of the side breathing down their neck at the top of the Premier League, just one small stumble, a solitary draw, the dropping of two points in any of their remaining six games could be fatal for Manchester City's title defence.
Yet again, England's top two clubs are involved in the most high-pressure of sprint finishes.
This weekend, it is City's turn to go first. In a game everyone expects them to win comfortably. But we all know football can be a funny one when it wants to be. You never know!
Matching stride for stridepublished at 11:14 British Summer Time 23 April 2022
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"We are not stupid...
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"If we draw, drop just two points, Liverpool will be champions...
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"If we win all our games we will be champions. The players know it."