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Hello and welcome to our coverage of the London derby between Arsenal and Chelsea. There's been some feisty clashes in this match down the years - although Antonio Conte experiences it for the first time today.

Premier League / Matchday 6
Emirates Stadium / 24.09.2016
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Tom Adams

Updated 24/09/2016 at 19:32 GMT+1


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Chelsea dropping back and letting Arsenal have the ball. Giving Cazorla a lot of time and space to play with as Arsenal win the first corner.
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Both teams starting with ten points from their first five matches. This could be a very spicy affair.
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Referee Michael Oliver blows the whistle to get us underway here. The Blues haven't lost any of their last five league visits to the Emirates (W2, D3) since a 3-1 defeat in December 2010. They've conceded just one goal in that run.
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17.25
FIVE MINUTES TO KICK-OFF: The players are in the tunnel and making their way out onto the pitch for this massive London derby.
17.20
TEN MINUTES TO KICK-OFF: The Gunners are winless in their last nine Premier League meetings with Chelsea since a 5-3 win at Stamford Bridge in October 2011 – only against Liverpool have they had a longer such run in the competition (12 between 1994 and 2000).
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Arsene Wenger: "We have four days to prepare for the game, let’s focus on that now. The performance tonight (against Nottingham Forest) shows that the players who played at Hull need to be on their toes and that's what we want - competition for places. The performance tonight shows that competition exists, really."
17:05
Conte brings in Fabregas for his return to Arsenal - Oscar is the man who drops out from the team which lost to Liverpool last week in the league.
17:00
No changes for Arsenal then from the team which beat Hull last weekend in the league. A few tweaks from the League Cup win over Nottingham Forest of course.
16:55
TEAM NEWS: This just in... Cesc Fabregas starts against his old club but Granit Xhaka does not get into the Arsenal team despite two long-range worldies in two matches.