West Brom vs Arsenal LIVE: Stream, score, TV – Aubameyang hits stunning hat-trick as Gunners run riot in EFL Cup
ARSENAL are playing a League Cup second round tie for the first time in 26 years as they visit West Brom TONIGHT.
An eighth-placed finish left them out of European competition and now have a trip to the Hawthorns in unfamiliar settings.
- Kick-off: 8pm BST
- TV/ live stream: Sky Sports Main Event & Football
- West Brom XI: Palmer, Shotton, Kipre, Taylor, Ingram, Snodgrass, Castro, Reach, Fellows, Zohore, Tulloch
- Arsenal XI: Ramsdale, Tavares, Chambers, Holding, Kolasinac, Elneny, Xhaka, Odegaard, Pepe, Saka, Aubameyang
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WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
33' Aubameyang nearly gets in again!
Xhaka flights a chipped ball over the top and he is through and gets the first touch to it before Palmer races out and flies into the challenge to block him getting through.
The Baggies get it clear but Kipre is down hurt after being clattered by his keeper. The physios race on.
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
31' The visitors seeing much more of the ball now as the young Baggies side aren't quite pressing the same.
Pepe nearly sent clear by Saka but his pass from halfway was underhit.
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
28' Oh, very nearly a second!
Saka and Aubameyang combine down the left as Arsenal break.
The latter receives the ball back and finds Tavares 25 yards from goal and he has Odegaard and Pepe in acres of room to his right inside the area.
The full-back slips and loses possession.
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
27' Rob Holding is shown a YELLOW CARD for a challenge on Zohore.
The Baggies target-man with a clever turn on halfway before Holding wiped him out.
THE OPENER
The first Arsenal goal of the 2021/22 campaign.
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
25' Saka very nearly squeezes a ball through for Aubameyang who would have been clean through.
Great interception from Taylor to stop it getting through.
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
22' The corner is taken short and Arsenal go the long way round before Xhaka picks out Saka on the edge.
His shot is deflected and falls to Odegaard, with a tight angle and no keeper to beat. He has Holding screaming for it for a tap-in and Odegaard strikes the outside of the post.
Really poor.
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
HOW HAS HE MISSED!
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
20' Zohore does come back on but he's not moving well at all.
Pepe causing problems down the right and he finds Chambers bursting a gut to get to the by-line.
His cross is blocked for a corner by Snodgrass.
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
19' Zohore is down again, seemingly from the same incident earlier.
This time the physio is called on to have a look at his knee.
Faal is warming up.
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
Goal detail
17' Excellent tenacity from Saka who chased down a deflected ball outside the West Brom box.
Castro makes a right mess of the clearance as he misses the ball altogether. Saka beats four challenges on the edge before firing low at goal and Palmer saves it but not convincingly.
Aubameyang the only one on the move and he rolls it into an empty net from a couple yards out.
WEST BROM 0-1 ARSENAL
And it's the skipper Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who bags the opener!
GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLL!!!
THE GUNNERS SCORE THEIR FIRST GOAL OF THE SEASON!
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
14' Tavares takes a sore one from Kipre who stands on the full-back's leg as he challenged for the ball near the corner flag.
It ends in a goal kick for the home side.
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
12' A fabulously, well-worked routine as it's taken short to the near post.
The lay-off is for Reach who sweeps a shot wide.
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
11' Good pressure from West Brom! Fellowes' first strike is mis-hit and Gardner-Hickman retrieves it well.
He lays it for Snodgrass who has an attempt blocked, before Fellowes' next attempt from the edge is tipped round the post by Ramsdale.
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
9' A late challenge through the back of Xhaka by Gardner-Hickman has the Gunners' midfielder down.
No card this time as Arsenal have the free-kick on halfway.
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
7' Zohore appears to have run off that knock as he sprints to close down Ramsdale's clearance.
The new boy lucky to see the ball fly wide of goal.
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
6' Arsenal have the ball in the net!
Aubameyang breaks the line and gets in behind after a long ball but just overruns it with his touch. His cutback is smashed home by Pepe but the flag is up for a goal kick.
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
5' Pepe is in room down the right but Odegaard just holds onto the ball too long.
The winger isn't pleased he wasn't played in. It's back to the Arsenal defence as West Brom have a high press.
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
4' Ramsdale called into action to deal with a really dodgy backpass. He shows good pace to get there before Zohore and just about deal with it.
The Baggies forward is hobbling after the challenge.
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
ALMOST!
3' Xhaka drops a perfect ball over the top for Chambers down the right. He has Saka in ACRES of room inside the middle but his cross is poor.
Palmer rushes out to gather.
WEST BROM 0-0 ARSENAL
1' Saka latches onto an Odegaard pass and wins the throw.
The Norwegian was completely wiped out by Castro as he knocked it forward and the West Brom man picks up a really early YELLOW CARD.
PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
UNDER WAY IN THE CARABAO CUP!
READY FOR A START
Tonight's hosts will get us underway in their traditional kits.
Arsenal in all yellow.
A false-start as the players take the knee and Snodgrass makes the pass.......
But applause meets the players as they do it.