Welcome back to another season of Premier League football with Eurosport’s Live coverage of Brentford and Arsenal at the Brentford Community Stadium. Both teams will be looking together their seasons off to win, so this should make for a brilliant opening game. All the stats, facts and team news to follow with kickoff at 20:00 GMT.
Premier League / Matchday 1
Gtech Community Stadium / 13.08.2021
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- S. Canos(22')
- C. Nørgaard(73')
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Updated 13/08/2021 at 20:55 GMT
19:55
The Brentford Community Stadium is rocking!!! Kick-off is less than five minutes away as both teams make their way out onto the pitch
19:50
Brentford against Arsenal is only the third ever game in Premier League history to be played on Friday the 13th - the other two games were in April 2001, with Bradford City winning 2-0 against Charlton Athletic and Leeds United beating Liverpool 2-1
19:45
Arsenal are without captain Aubameyang and fellow striker Lacazette who are both unwell and will not be available. So the responsibility to grab the goals falls to the exciting Hale End academy graduate Balogun
19:40
Arsenal's defence will need to be at their best this evening with the Bee's striker Toney leading the line, he was the top scorer in the Sky Bet Championship last season with 31 goals and even contributed 10 assists
19:35
Arsenal's away form on the opening game of the season has been impressive, they are unbeaten in seven games (W5 D2) since losing 0-1 at Sunderland in the 2000-01 campaign. The Gunners began last season with a 3-0 victory away against promoted side Fulham.
19:30
It might be Friday the 13th but Brentford will be aiming to break the hoodoo that has seen the nine London teams before them fail to win their first ever game in the competition.
19:25
This will be the first league meeting between Brentford and Arsenal since May 1947, a match the Gunners won 1-0 at Griffin Park.
19:20
Arsenal will be up against it this evening as Brentford were a formidable force at home last season, amassing a nine-game unbeaten run during the business end of the Championship season
19:15
And here is the Arsenal line-up
19:10
Here is the side that Thomas Frank has selected to take on Arsenal...
19:05
Both teams come into this game off the back of very different seasons. The Bees had a fine campaign, when they finally ended their wait for top flight football after 74 years with a Playoff win against Swansea in May, while Arsenal’s mixed form resulted in them missing out on European football for the first time in 25 years.