Standard Liège v Arsenal and more: Europa League – live!

12 December 2019 05:59
Updates from Thursday’s Europa League matchesLive scoreboard: all the details from tonight’s matchesAnd you can email Ed here or tweet him here 5.59pm GMT You’ve got to love David Luiz, who has just attempted a shot from his own halfway line! Not far away either 5.57pm GMT Peep peep and we’re off in the early kick-offs. Guendouzi goes down after clashing with M’Poku inside the first 30 seconds but seemed to make a lot of that. 5.55pm GMT Sako and Nelson providing support to Lacazette in attack tonight for the Gunners, who have made nine changes from the win over West Ham. Could be exciting . Meanwhile Standard’s top scorer Maxime Lestienne is on the bench 5.52pm GMT A young Arsenal side take to the pitch in Belgium. It looks cold out there 5.46pm GMT Almost time for kick-off now, hope you’re all ready. A reminder of the games about to start Who's going through today?#UEL | @UKEnterprise 5.45pm GMT The pressure is on Lazio to win against Rennes in Group E otherwise Cluj will be heading through with Celtic. Things are pretty tight in Arsenal’s group after their loss to Eintracht Frankfurt last time but they will be fine unless they lose 5-0, with the Germans just needing a point at home to Vitoria 5.42pm GMT In Group C, Basel are definitely through whatever happens but Getafe need a point against Krasnodar at home to qualify. Group D is much simpler, with Sporting and Linz battling it out for top spot in Austria. 5.39pm GMT Several groups still have issues to be resolved, although we already know that Sevilla and Apoel Nicoisa are in the hat from Group A. In Group B, it’s a three way tussle between Dynamo Kiev, FC Copenhagen and Malmo with the Swedish side needing to win in the Danish capital to be sure of fending off the Ukrainians. 5.34pm GMT It’s time to get serious in the competition that started back in the second week of July for some of the teams in action this evening. After this week’s events in the Champions League, we know that Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Benfica, Club Bruges, Inter Milan, Olympiakos, Red Bull Salzburg and Shakhtar Donetsk will be the eight teams dropping down into the draw for the last-32, which looks a decent set of potential winners to me. 5.27pm GMT It’s all change for Celtic as well, with a debut for 18-year-old Scott Robertson in midfield .CFR Cluj: Arlauskis, Susic, Burca, Cestor, Camora, Djokovic, Bordeianu, Culio, Deac, Traore, Omrani.The flying Celts are here and aiming to finish the group on a high! #CLUCEL #UEL pic.twitter.com/Dh0ksUclXw 5.12pm GMT Hi everyone and welcome to a busy evening in the Europa League! There’s a lot going on in the final round of matches in the group stages with plenty to be resolved in the 24 games that are taking place tonight.First up among the British sides are Arsenal, who just need to avoid a 5-0 defeat in their trip to face Standard Liege in Belgium to make it through to the last-32. After their morale-boosting win over West Ham on Monday, surely that will be a piece of cake for Freddie Ljungberg’s side? 5.07pm GMT There’s a recall for Matteo Guendouzi as Freddie Ljungberg names his Arsenal side to face Standard Liege. Here’s the teams in full: Here's our team in Belgium tonight. @DMavropanos handed a start @MatteoGuendouzi returns to the XI @ReissNelson9 and @EmileSmithRowe both start @LacazetteAlex leads the line #UEL Continue readingreadfullarticle

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