Hello and welcome to LIVE updates of the FA Cup sixth round clash between Premier League Arsenal and non-league, Lincoln City. It’s been a fairytale season for the Imps. Danny Cowley’s side are top of the National League by six points, have reached the FA Trophy semi final and are on the adventure of a lifetime in this competition. In contrast, Arsene Wenger is under serious pressure. The Gunners sit outside the top four and were humiliated in the Champions League last 16 against Bayern Munich. Wenger can’t afford any more bad press and will be desperate for his side to make short work of a non-league side who arrive on the crest of a wave. It’s the type of match that the FA Cup is all about and gets underway at 5.30pm GMT.
The Emirates FA Cup / 6th Round
Emirates Stadium / 11.03.2017
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- T. Walcott(45+1')
- O. Giroud(53')
- L. Waterfall(58' O.G)
- A. Sánchez(73')
- A. Ramsey(75')
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Updated 11/03/2017 at 19:25 GMT
17.14
Arsenal saw off another non-league side to reach the last eight. Lincoln are top of Sutton’s league, but it will be more than a tall order for the Imps to pull off a monumental shock on the Gunners’ home turf.
17.10
A BATTLE OF YESTERYEAR: Arsenal and Lincoln last played each other back in March 1915. The Imps won 1-0 at home in what was a second division clash. Can they keep their 100 per cent record going at Emirates stadium?!
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17.03
Arsene Wenger spoke to the press ahead of Arsenal's FA Cup quarter-final against Lincoln on Saturday, but the questions he faced were not about the non league side.
17.00
Danny Cowley: "We are going to try to learn loads, because that is the best thing this FA Cup journey has given us. We have had the opportunity to pit our wits against the very best, the opportunity to be involved in really big games. We are determined to come out better from this experience. We respect that, sooner or later, we will be old news, fish and chip paper, but that is fine by us as long as when the dust does settles we have learnt from the experience, that we are better managers and better people as a consequence of it."
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16.55
The magic of the FA Cup....
16.50
Lincoln became the first non league side to reach the last eight since QPR in 1914 when they stunned Premier League Burnley in the standout result of the fifth round.
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16.45
Manchester City were the first side to secure a semi final spot when they won at Middlesbrough earlier this afternoon.
16.42
CONFIRMED TEAMS – ARSENAL: Cech, Bellerin, Gibbs, Mustafi, Koscielny, Ramsey, Xhaka, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Sanchez, Giroud... Subs: Martinez, Gabriel, Monreal, Coquelin, Iwobi, Ozil, Lucas. /// LINCOLN CITY: Farman, Wood, Habergham, Waterfall, Muldoon, Power, Rhead, Hawkridge, Raggett, Arnold, Woodyard... Subs: Etheridge, Marriott, Margetts, McMenemy, McCombe, Calder, Ward.
16.40
Lincoln are unchanged from the team that won at Burnley in the last round. Arsenal makes two changes from the team that lost to Bayern Munich in midweek. Petr Cech returns in goal while Kieran Gibbs comes in for Nacho Monreal at left back.
16.36
It says much about the pressure on Wenger that Arsenal are pretty much at full strength.
16.35
So, Lincoln’s adventure continues. Destination this weekend: Emirates Stadium. Next stop Wembley? Surely they can't, can they?