No they can't.

Bukayo Saka tries to find a team-mate on the edge of the box but the ball is cut out by Marc Cucurella, making amends for giving away the initial foul.

Bukayo Saka is brought down by Marc Cucurella in the Chelsea half. It's a free-kick the Gunners can cause some mischief with.

The Arsenal fans really do love that song about William Saliba based on Tequila by The Champs.

Thomas Partey launches a good old long throw into the Chelsea box and Gabriel meets it with his head, but only to send the ball harmlessly wide.

Michael Oliver is the referee. Chelsea in all blue, Arsenal in red and white. Classic kit match-up.

Arsenal are immediately away into Chelsea territory.

Arsenal want top spot back, Chelsea want to right their patchy Premier League form.

It's all set up to be a thriller. But will it deliver?

We are under way.

Remembrance Day is on Sunday 13 November, but this is the final game at Stamford Bridge before then, hence both clubs, their staff, supporters and players are marking the occasion with banners displaying poppies.

We're also now having a rendition of The Last Post.

Arunit Chatterjee: Actually, Emery was there in Peaky Blinders. I always thought Luca Changretta was Emery.

Just in case you needed any reminding, here is the current top of the Premier League table...

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• Arsenal have won their past two Premier League away games against Chelsea, as many as in their previous 16 visits. They’ve not won three in a row at Stamford Bridge since April 1974.
• Chelsea striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored 68 goals in 128 Premier League games during his time for Arsenal. He could become just the second player to score for both sides in this fixture in the Premier League (excluding own goals), after Cesc Fabregas.
• Arsenal have scored more goals in the opening 30 minutes of Premier League games this season than any other side (11), while they're the only side yet to concede in this timeframe.
• Chelsea manager Graham Potter has won three of his six Premier League games against Arsenal (D1 L2) – no side has he beaten more often in the competition than the Gunners.

If Chelsea do want to draw on a pre-game positive, they can perhaps look to their still relatively new gaffer, who has a decent record against today's opponents.

Graham Potter has won three of his six Premier League games against Arsenal (D1 L2) – no side has he beaten more often in the competition than the Gunners.

Chelsea could do with a result today.

They are three games without a victory in the Premier League, with that 4-1 hammering at Brighton no doubt still rattling around their heads despite the partial palate cleanser of beating Zagreb 2-1 in the Champions League. They last lost consecutive league games in December 2020 under Frank Lampard. However, at home the Blues are unbeaten in nine league games (W5 D4) since a 4-2 loss to Arsenal in April.

The Blues have actually lost three of their last four Premier League games against Arsenal (W1), more than they had in their previous 17 against the Gunners (W9 D6 L2).

Dennis Ethan: Arsenal, United and Tottenham Hotspur fans that laughed at Chelsea and Liverpool last weekend it's your turn to be made a laughing stock today.

Mohamed Elneny says Arsenal’s players are “scared” of Mikel Arteta in light of their manager moving captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang out of the club.

Aubameyang lost his captaincy and left the club for Barcelona in February, before moving tom Chelsea in the summer transfer window.

His Arsenal exit was captured by an Amazon documentary and Arteta was seen explaining he had built a dossier on the Gabon striker’s misdemeanours.

Midfielder Elneny says the club’s current dressing room is thriving and doesn’t “allow big egos”.

"This is the dressing room we have now. Everyone loves each other and everyone works for each other,” said Elneny. "This is what actually makes our squad really strong, because we don't have egos in the team.

"Now everyone looked at themselves because Mikel did that to the captain of the team. What is he going to do with another player?”

Asked if the incident unified everyone at the club, the 30-year-old - who is currently Arsenal's longest-serving player - replied: "I think so, because now everyone was scared!

"Everyone is scared with their position because this happened to Aubameyang. Of course if anyone is not the captain of the team, does a small mistake, they are going to have the same problem, and no one needs that problem.

"We agree with what Mikel decided because he is our boss and we just have to agree what his vision is for us."

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Mikel Arteta knows only too well the threat posed by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as his Arsenal side face their former striker for the first time at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

Aubameyang left Arsenal in January after a high-profile spat with Arteta and his exit precipitated a transformation in Arsenal's fortunes from top-six scrabblers to seeming title challengers.

With the 33-year-old Gabon striker now at Chelsea, Arteta is warning his defence of the danger he poses.

"If Auba has anything, it's the ability to put the ball in the back of the net," said Arteta. "He's going to be doing that until the day he decides he's had enough of football."

On his exit from Arsenal, Arteta sought to draw a line under the incident.

"It's a decision you have to take and there were lots of different parties involved," he said. "When someone is not with us anymore but they've been a player with the role he had at the club, you always wish them the best.

"When he made the decision to go somewhere else, he seems to have enjoyed it and done well."