Leicester City v Arsenal: Premier League – live

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26 min An injury to James Juston allows Mikel Arteta to give his team a tactics tutorial. He’s okay to continue.

24 min In a messy game, Ethan Nwaneri has looked a class apart with his touch and vision. He turns 18 in March.

20 min Partey sprays a crossfield pass straight out of play. It’s all a bit scruffy at the moment.

18 min Possession percentage: Leicester 38-62 Arsenal.

16 min Nwaneri, who has started well, flips a cross that is headed across goal and wide by Rice. It was a difficult chance as he saw it late with Justin jumping in front of him.

15 min A dangerous cross from El Khannouss just evades Vardy and lands behind Ayew at the far post.

13 min Partey’s snapshot from 22 yards is blocked. Leicester have defended well so far.

10 min Soumare’s cross is headed away to the edge of the area. Ndidi meets it with a crisp left-foot volley that is too close to Raya.

9 min Odegaard teases a chip over the defence towards Trossard, who flicks a volley that is saved to his right by Hermansen. He was offside so it wouldn’t have counted.

Arsenal's Leandro Trossard has an attempt on goal. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/Reuters

7 min Arsenal are settling into their passing rhythm. Still no openings to speak of, never mind chances.

4 min Nothing to report yet. Leicester have started brightly enough though, and the atmosphere is tremendous.

2 min “How many saloons would there have been in a typical Dodge-City type Western town of the mid-19th century?” muses Charles Antaki. “Some towns were presumably no more than a collection of a few shacks, but a substantial settlement may have had, what, half a dozen fronting onto a dusty Main Street.

“Raheem Sterling hasn’t actually started more than a couple of games for Arsenal, so let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and say he’s got three more before he gets to the Last Chance Saloon. He’s at the pre-penultimate, I think it is. Still time. But it’s nearly run out. A hat-trick today would help.

1 min Peep peep! They’re under way at the King Power Stadium.

A reminder of the teams

Leicester (4-2-3-1) Hermansen; Justin, Okoli, Faes, Kristiansen; Ndidi, Soumare; De Cordova-Reid, El Khannouss, Ayew; Vardy.
Substitutes: Stolarczyk, Coulibaly, Coady, Vestergaard, Winks, Skipp, Buonanotte, Mavididi, Daka.

Arsenal (4-1-4-1) Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly; Partey; Nwaneri, Odegaard, Rice, Sterling; Trossard.
Substitutes: Neto, Tierney, White, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Merino, Calafiori, Butler-Oyedeji.

“As a Chelsea fan, Kaoru Mitoma made my life difficult last night,” begins Krishnamoorthy V, “but it also transported to football heaven.”

If you haven’t seen it, just see it.

Pre-match reading

Team news

Leicester make two changes from their unfortunate FA Cup defeat at Old Trafford. Victor Kristiansen comes in for Luke Thomas at left-back; Jamie Vardy replaces Patson Daka up front.

Arsenal make two changes, both enforced, to the team that lost at Newcastle in the Carabao Cup. Raheem Sterling and Ethan Nwaneri come in for the injured Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz. It looks like Leandro Trossard will be their centre-forward.

Leicester (4-2-3-1) Hermansen; Justin, Okoli, Faes, Kristiansen; Ndidi, Soumare; De Cordova-Reid, El Khannouss, Ayew; Vardy.
Substitutes: Stolarczyk, Coulibaly, Coady, Vestergaard, Winks, Skipp, Buonanotte, Mavididi, Daka.

Arsenal (4-1-4-1) Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly; Partey; Nwaneri, Odegaard, Rice, Sterling; Trossard.
Substitutes: Neto, Calafiori, Zinchenko, Tierney, Kiwior, White, Jorginho, Merino, Butler-Oyedeji.

Referee Sam Barrott.

Preamble

So you’re saying there’s a chance? Arsenal are still highly unlikely to win the Premier League this season, but James Tarkowski’s sizzling equaliser on Wednesday has given them a soupçon of hope. They’re seven points behind Liverpool with 14 games to play - one of them, tantalisingly, at Anfield in May.

Arsenal have gone on spectacular title-winning runs before – 10 straight wins in 1997-98, 12 in 2001-02 – and they will probably need another to reel in Liverpool. Their injury list makes things a whole lot harder, but at least they’re still in the conversation.

Leicester are in a different league, a mini-league with Ipswich and Wolves at the bottom. Two will be relegated, one will survive. Ruud van Nistelrooy denied Arsenal the title in 2002-03 and probably 2004-05; he’d love to do the same today.

Kick off 12.30pm GMT.