Arsenal 0-1 Burnley: Premier League – as it happened

That’s it for tonight’s blog, and a very eventful day of Premier League action. I’ll leave you with Nick Ames’ match report from the Emirates. Goodnight!

“The longer Arsenal’s travails carry on,” says Stephen Carr, “the more foolish the sacking of Gunnersaurus looks...”

I think he was back last week. But it’s too late, he’s already put the curse on.

Never mind George or Arsene. Damian Durrant really knows...

That was an untidy game between two teams low on confidence, and Sean Dyche should not give a flying out about any of that. It’s a big win for Burnley, who move out of the relegation places as a result. Arsenal were the better team until Granit Xhaka was sent off for being a moron, and then Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, of all people, settled the match with an own goal. Arsenal have lost four consecutive league games at home for the first time since 1959.

90+6 min Saka’s corner is headed down by Holding and kicked off the line by Brady!

90+4 min Saka’s free-kick is punched away by Pope, who takes out Tarkowski in the process. Arsenal play on with Tarkowski down in the area. Tierney crosses towards Gabriel, whose off-balance header is easily saved. Pope throws the ball straight out of play so that Tarkowski can receive treatment.

90+3 min Saka is fouled 35 yards from goal by Brownhill...

90+2 min Holding’s snapshot from the edge of the area hits Nketiah and loops through to Pope. This is desperate stuff.

90+1 min Thanks to Grant Tennille for pointing out that Arsenal last lost four league games in a row at home in 1959.

90 min Burnley’s last league win over Arsenal was in 1974. They are five added minutes away.

90 min After an extended spell of Arsenal possession, Ceballos’s cross is too close to Pope.

88 min Arsenal are starting to apply some pressure. Saka lofts a good pass to Aubameyang on the left of the area, but he slips over as he shapes to shoot. The other game, since you asked, is still Leicester 3-0 Brighton.

86 min Saka cracks a shot from the edge of the area that is headed over his own bar by Tarkowski in the six-yard box.

85 min Mikel Arteta hasn’t been in the job a year, and he’s won the FA Cup in that time, so any talk of him being sacked is absurd. He’s got quite a mess to clean up, though.

83 min “How about Norwich in 1994-95?” says Richard Franks. “Two seasons previously they came third in the Prem (having led for much of the season), and in the previous season had a decent UEFA Cup run in which they knocked out Bayern Munich.”

That’s true, though they then sold Chris Sutton and Ruel Fox. The most surprising/shocking thing about their relegation is that they were something like seventh at Christmas. I still think it was a surprise rather than a shock though.

83 min Eddie Nketiah replaces Willian.

82 min Aubameyang plays a good pass into the area to Ceballos, who dithers for a split-second and is well tackled by Taylor.

80 min If Arsenal lose it will be their fourth consecutive home defeat in the Premier League. When that last happened, I know not.

79 min Arsenal have barely been out of their half in the last 10 minutes.

78 min “What do you mean, ‘You can’t script this’?” says Lance Berc. “Damian Durrant did and you published it in the MBM at 7:01. All we need is Big Sam’s phone number.”

True, but not even Nostradurrant predicted Aubameyang ending his goal drought at the wrong end.

77 min Arsenal are hanging on. Westwood’s free-kick is flicked on by Brownhill and blocked by Gabriel in front of goal. The ball rebounds to Taylor, whose fierce shot from the edge of the area deflects wide.

76 min “Ref here,” says Paul Pooley. “Not a penalty when ball not in play. Discipline the only tool ref has in that situation.”

You’re right, ref. I thought the corner had been taken but it hadn’t.

76 min The good news for Arsenal is that they’re only down to 10 men. Elneny could easily have walked as well.

74 min Ainsley Maitland-Niles replaces Hector Bellerin.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has put Burnley ahead. It was a wicked corner from Ashley Westwood, which skimmed off the head of Aubameyang at the near post and flew past Leno.

73 min Elneny blocked Tarkowski by shoving him in the face - he’s only booked, which is very strange. Also, shouldn’t that be a penalty?

72 min Tarkowski and Elneny are both down after jockeying for position at the corner. This will be a penalty I think.

72 min Westwood’s free-kick is flicked on by Brownhill and headed over his own bar by Bellerin, an important clearance.

71 min Bellerin is booked for a sliding tackle on Taylor. He got the ball but the referee decided that wasn’t relevant.

71 min “This Sheffield Wednesday squad went down in 2000!” says Gary Naylor.

From your exclamatory tone I was expecting to click the link and see Maldini, Baresi, Di Canio, Pele, Maradona, Baggio and Peter Atherton.

70 min Barnes shoots well wide from 25 yards. Burnley make another change: Matej Vydra misses Chris Wood, who missed a sitter early on.

69 min Pope makes a good save from Aubameyang’s chip, though the flag went up afterwards.

68 min To clarify, Xhaka was originally booked for the foul on McNeil, and then given a straight red after consultation with VAR for trying to throttle Ashley Westwood. That’s good going, even by his standards.

67 min Mee has a pop from 30 yards. It’s very well struck but straight at Leno.

66 min Arsenal are still dominating the game despite going down to 10 men.

65 min Aubameyang stings Pope’s palms from a very tight angle. It was a decent strike, though he was never likely to beat Pope from there.

65 min I knew I should have put the farm on this ending 0-0.

64 min “Re: shocking relegations – surely Newcastle 2008/09 has to be up there?” says Ben Blatch-Hanlon. “Not quite the team from the late 90s/early 2000s that challenged for the league and was a regular in Europe, but still should have been more than good enough not to go down!”

I’d say that was more of a surprise than a shock, though this might be false memory syndrome.

62 min Westwood is lucky not to be booked for pulling back Ceballos.

62 min “And there it is...” says Damian Durrant.