Good evening and welcome to live coverage of tonight's Premier League game between Arsenal, who look to be moving away from crisis for the time being, and a West Brom side who haven't reached 40 points yet so can be classed as dangerous. Team news is next...

Perhaps it's just rush hour congestion, but a lot of empty seats at the Emirates currently.

Lacazette and Sanchez - starting together for the first time - get the game going.

The teams are in the tunnel, both in their home kits, and will be lead out by Laurent Koscielny and the history-maker Barry. Bobby Madley is tonight's referee.

Arsenal have scored in all 22 of the Premier League meetings between these two.

Just 15 minutes to kick-off now, so here's a reminder of the teams in full.

ARSENAL: Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Elneny, Ramsey, Sanchez, Lacazette. Subs: Ospina, Mertesacker, Maitland-Niles, Wilshere, Ozil, Walcott, Giroud.

WEST BROM: Foster, Nyom, Dawson, Hegazy, Evans, Gibbs, Barry, Livermore, Krychowiak, Rodriguez, Robson-Kanu. Subs: Myhill, Brunt, Yacob, Morrison, McClean, Phillips, Rondon.

Giroud has to make do with a place on the bench tonight, as does Jack Wilshere, whose future was the subject of newspaper speculation today.

West Brom are set up very defensively. Will they compete? We'll see. They did in this fixture last season, but were ultimately undone by an 86th-minute Olivier Giroud goal and lost 1-0.

And Pulis is well aware of his poor record at this ground. "You go there knowing it will be a really tough game," he said ahead of this clash. "They have some outstanding individual players who can win games by themselves. Irrespective of what the team are or are not doing those players can change games."

However, the Baggies have been "looking forward to" tonight, Pulis insists. "Every time you go and play against one of the big clubs I think it's fantastic to go and compete against them."

Another stat that makes good reading for Gooners is that Tony Pulis has lost all nine of his league visits to the Emirates.

On that occasion it finished 3-2, with former Arsenal man Jerome Thomas netting the winner.

West Brom have lost their last six matches away to Arsenal, with the Baggies’ sole win at this ground coming in 2010.

Just one point separates the two teams at kick-off, although it would be fair to suggest that West Brom fans are considerably happier - or perhaps it would be more apt to say less distressed - about their start to the season. They're currently 10th on eight points while Arsenal are 12th with seven, so would leapfrog the Baggies if they can repeat recent history and triumph this evening.

This is Barry's 633rd appearance in the Premier League - no other player has made more.

As for the visitors, the headline is that Gareth Barry starts to break Ryan Giggs' all-time Premier League appearances record. Kieran Gibbs also plays makes the cut on his return to the Emirates.

Two changes for Arsenal from the team that drew at Chelsea - Alexis Sanchez and Mohamed Elneny come into the side. Mesut Ozil has to make do with a place on the bench.