Good evening and welcome to our live text coverage of the Premier League match between Sheffield United and Arsenal from Bramall Lane! Arsenal are languishing in 11th place and haven't won a game since their North London derby victory over Spurs early last month. Meanwhile, the Blades are still glued to the bottom of the table. Their last win came 11 days prior to Arsenal's. We will be bringing you all the build-up, highlights and talking points from the match this afternoon, so stay tuned ahead of kick-off at 19:00.

Premier League / Matchday 31

Bramall Lane / 11.04.2021

Sheffield United

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Arsenal

A. Lacazette(33', 85')
G. Martinelli(71')

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ByDan Quarrell

Updated 11/04/2021 at 19:56 GMT

45+1'

Pepe's corner is met with another Lacazette flick. This one appears to strike Norwood's arm so VAR is having a look...surely not?

44'

SAVED! A rare foray forward for Sheffield United with a corner. Norwood's cross is cleared to Egan, who does well to bring it onto his left foot and shoot. It's more or less straight at Leno though.

42'

CLOSE!! Pepe takes the corner and Lacazette's near post flick is only cleared as far as Martinelli who's powerful shot from the middle of the box is deflected out for another corner by Egan. A lot of chances are falling to him tonight!

38'

Sheffield United have barely laid a finger on Arsenal apart from the chance that fell to McGoldrick. Severely devoid of creativity.

37'

A lofted pass finds Martinelli in tonnes of space down the left, but his eventual pass into the box is poor and cleared away.

35'

CLOSE!! Saka just couldn't get it under control! Lacazette finds him in the box with a pinpoint through ball, but it rolls away from him.

33'

GOAL!!! That one will bring back memories of Wengerball! A slick, training ground-esque passing move resulting in a Ceballos flick to Lacazette that's put past the keeper with maximal composure. Wonderful goal to make it 1-0!

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A. Lacazette

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31'

Martinelli cuts inside on his right foot and shoots from just outside the box but a deflection off the back of Norwood takes the sting out of it on its way into Ramsdale's hands.

25'

CLOSE!! Lovely, fluid passing from Arsenal sees them bring the ball upfield before a Ceballos flick is thumped into the side netting by Martinelli.

23'

A moment of madness from Ramsdale! His attempted pass goes straight at Lacazette. He's very lucky it came straight back to him...

19'

The Blades keep getting so many bodies back in their box it feels like practically every single Arsenal cross is getting deflected or cleared.

17'

Ceballos' deflected cross finds Chambers on the edge of the box and somehow his subsequent cross doesn't find a teammate. Nice little half chance there.

10'

CLOSE!! Lovely touch and turn from McGoldrick in the box! He drags his shot just wide though.

Slick footwork from Pepe to bring the ball forward. He picks out Saka on the right, but his pass into the box is cleared. Positive stuff from Arsenal. Saka's enjoying his free role in attacking midfield.

Holding hoofs it up to Pepe who loses the ball while his legs are tangled up. It won't matter though because the linesman's flagged for offside.

Talking of Saka, Martinelli slips him through on the left and he strikes with power from an acute angle. Well over though.

Hang on. It appears that Saka isn't playing at left-back after all...it's Xhaka?

1st Half

KICK-OFF: After two minutes of silence and taking the knee, Lacazette kicks off the game.

18:50

It's safe to say John Lundstram isn't exactly popular amongst Sheffield United fans. Just ask one of their former players, Curtis Woodhouse!

18:44

Will playing Saka at left-back make Arsenal weaker in attack?

18:30

Apparently Sheffield United interim manager Paul Heckingbottom still talks to their previous manager Chris Wilder.

Break-ups are never easy to be fair!

Heckingbottom still chats with Wilder and predicts next move for former Sheffield United boss -

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