Hello and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE text commentary of the Premier League clash between Huddersfield and Arsenal. Unai Emery's side have won just one of their last eight away games and lost ground in the battle for the top-four with a crushing defeat to Manchester City last Sunday, but can the Gunners bounce back and inflict more misery on the Terriers? Kick-off is 45 minutes away!
Premier League / Matchday 26
John Smith's Stadium / 09.02.2019
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Updated 09/02/2019 at 16:53 GMT
14:45
Huddersfield are rock bottom with just 11 points from 25 games having lost 11 of their last 12 matches and must be planning for life in the Championship for next season. They could move to within 10 points of safety with a victory this afternoon. But let's be honest, that isn't likely.
14:40
Jan Siewert: "As long as it's mathematically possible to stay up, then everything is possible. The way we are working gives me every belief we can do it.
"The most important thing for me is that there's a lot of players in and around the box.
"The more aggressive you defend, the more aggressive you attack. We have had a problem with scoring and I want that to change."
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Manchester United's 3-0 victory at Fulham's Craven Cottage earlier today means Arsenal are now four points adrift of fourth-place.
The Gunners have lost four and drawn one of their last five away league matches.
14:35
Unai Emery: "We started very well away, changing also our mentality to get more points away, but now we need to recover this confidence, to recover this performance and the next opportunity is Saturday against Huddersfield.
"We know that defensively we need to do better. We've tried playing with three centre-backs and two centre-backs. We've won with three centre-backs and two centre-backs."
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14:30
SIEWERT RINGS THE CHANGES FOR TERRIERS
Jan Siewert makes four changes to the starting XI that lost 5-0 to Chelsea last time out. I come Ben Hamer, Mathias Jorgensen, Jonathan Hogg, Jason Puncheon. Out go Jonas Lossl, Chris Lowe, Philip Billing and Isaac Mbenza.
14:25
NO OZIL OR AUBAMEYANG FOR GUNNERS
It is believed Mesut Ozil is suffering from the same bug illness that has also ruled Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang out of today's game, so Henrikh Mkhitaryan comes in.
Stephan Lichsteiner is missing through injury and is replaced by Ainsley Maitland-Niles.
14:20
TEAM NEWS
Huddersfield XI: Hamer, Smith, Kongolo, Jorgensen, Schindler, Bacuna, Hogg, Mooy, Puncheon, Diakhaby, Kachunga.
Subs: Coleman, Stankovic, Durm, Pritchard, Billing, Grant, Depoitre.
Arsenal XI: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Guendouzi, Torreira, Iwobi, Mkhitaryan, Kolasinac, Lacazette.
Subs: Cech, Lichtsteiner, Suarez, Mavpropanos, Elneny, Willock, Nketieh.