Arsenal - Aston Villa live updates

Here's an interesting stat. Chelsea and Man Utd (12 each) are the only visiting team to have earned more points at the Emirates Stadium than Aston Villa (11) in the Barclays Premier League (W3 D2 L3).

The Emirates may not be the place Villa want to be travelling to in their current slump. Currently on a run of five games without a goal, the Villains have never gone six league games in a row without scoring in their history.

Paul Lambert, Aston Villa: "Carles Gil has come in and hit the ground running. He wasn’t a regular at Valencia, but he wants to do well at this club, too, which is great - and Scott [Sinclair] may be the same."

MATCH STAT: Christian Benteke, who starts for Villa, has scored three goals in four Premier League appearances against Arsenal.

Arsene Wenger, Arsenal: "It (to challenge for the title) is our target, but we have to be realistic. What we want is to win every game we can, but at the moment we are 14 points behind Chelsea, they need to lose five games, and they have lost only two until now. What we want to do is focus on our performances and show that we can produce consistent results. After, where we will finish, it is difficult to say."

So there is no room for Arsenal new boy Gabriel Paulista but back comes Theo Walcott and Mesut Ozil into the starting line-up with Alexis Sanchez out with a hamstring problem. Villa’s new signing Scott Sinclair makes the bench, as does Gabriel Agbonlahor who has recovered from a hamstring injury.

TEAMS: Arsenal: Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Walcott, Cazorla, Ozil, Giroud. SUBS: Szczesny, Gibbs, Gabriel, Paulista, Chambers, Flamini, Rosicky, Akpom /// Aston Villa: Guzan, Hutton, Okore, Clark, Richardson, Sanchez, Delph, Cleverley, Weimann, Gil, Benteke. SUBS : Given, Baker, Bacuna, Sinclair, Agbonlahor, Westwood, Cissokho.

Hello and welcome to our LIVE match coverage of Arsenal v Aston Villa from The Emirates with new signing Gabriel Paulista set to start for the Gunners. Kick-off 13.30 GMT, team news when we get it.