Friday evening’s Premier League action comes from the Emirates Stadium as Arsenal take on Liverpool.

After back to back league draws, the Gunners returned to winning ways with a narrow win over struggling Newcastle United last weekend.

The result saw the Gunners leapfrog both neighbours Tottenham Hotspur and Burnley to move into the top five and another victory here will put them above their opponents.

Olivier Giroud is set to miss the festive period with a hamstring injury though Francis Coquelin could feature despite limping out of the midweek EFL Cup win over West Ham United and Shkodran Mustafi is available after recovering from a thigh problem.

Alexandre Lacazette is favourite to open the scoring at 6.0 (5/1) with Sky Bet with Alexis Sanchez a 6.25 (21/4) chance with Unibet.

The home win is priced at 2.55 (17/11) with Unibet, with the visitors a 2.85 (24/13) chance with a variety of firms. The draw can be backed at 3.6 (13/5) with most bookmakers.

The Reds go into this game on place and one point above Arsene Wenger’s side, knowing that victory will take the to within a point of champions Chelsea, at least until Saturday afternoon.

The Merseysiders have lost just one of their last eighteen matches in all competitions and thumped Bournemouth last time out to keep themselves in the Champions League qualification places.

Emre Can is set to return from suspension though Joel Matip and Daniel Sturridge are injury doubts and Alberto Moreno remains out.

Top scorer Mohammed Salah is widely available at 6.0 (5/1) to get the first goal of the game, ahead of 8.0 (7/1) chance Philippe Coutinho.

Liverpool won the reverse fixture back in August by four goals to nil extending their unbeaten run against the North London side to five matches.

They also netted four times on their last visit to the Emirates, so you may be tempted to bet on them scoring over 3.5 this time around at 11.0 (10/1) with Sky Bet while you can back both teams to score at 1.44 (4/9) with several companies.