Ipswich 0-4 Arsenal LIVE SCORE: Bukayo Saka seen with ICE on leg after horror Leif Davis red card – updates
ARSENAL denied Liverpool the chance to win the Premier League title this afternoon with a dominant 4-0 win at Ipswich.
Though the victory came at a cost with Bukayo Saka limping off in the second half and receiving ice to his leg after a horror lunge from Leif Davis, which the Ipswich defender was red carded for.
Leandro Trossard was on the double alongside strikes from Gabriel Martinelli and Ethan Nwaneri as the Gunners ran riot.
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- Ipswich starting XI: Palmer; Tuanzebe, O'Shea, Greaves, Davis; Morsy, Cajuste; Johnson, Enciso, Clarke; Hirst
- Arsenal starting XI: Raya; White, Saliba, Kiwior, Zinchenko; Rice, Merino, Odegaard; Saka, Martinelli, Trossard
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60. Trossard is looking to get in behind the Ipswich defence.
They manage to get numbers around the ball and clear.
There is no out ball for the hosts and The Gunners come straight back at them.
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58. Lewis-Skelly and Nwaneri come on for Arsenal.
They replace Merino and Saka.
Bit of a reshuffle needed now for Arteta's side, with Zinchenko going into midfield.
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56. Massive chance for the Tractor Boys.
Hirst takes it around Saliba and drills a shot towards the far post.
It narrowly misses and we almost had a game on our hands there.
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54. This must be a tough watch for the home fans.
But it does show just how far off the pace they are at this level.
Arsenal have no doubt had tougher training sessions than this.
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52. It is baffling how much space Odegaard is being given.
If you stick somebody on him for the entire game, often you turn off a large part of Arsenal's creativity.
It is like Ipswich have just landed on this planet and never seen The Gunners play before.
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50. It will be interesting to see what happens with Delap in the summer.
Hirst is more fancied than him here at the moment.
However, he is not as mobile as Delap and does not make the same runs into the channels.
Many sides will be looking at the former Man City youngster but many forget that Guardiola's side inserted a buy back clause of £40m so they will get first refusal.
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48. Arsenal seem keen to walk it into the net now.
They are playing intricate little passes trying to work Ipswich open.
If they simplified it more, they could easily have added a third.
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46. Arsenal have so much space to work with now.
They are passing it around like it is an exhibition match.
Zinchenko feeds it into Merino in the box but O'Shea puts it behind for a corner.
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We are back underway at Portman Road.
The ten men of Ipswich has a tough half ahead of them.
Arsenal get the second-half started.
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It is hard to see a way back into this game for McKenna's side.
They failed to register a single shot on target before the interval.
The Gunners will more than likely look to get an early goal and then bring off all their stars.
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As the stats show this has been a tough challenge for the hosts.
Arsenal are bossing the possession and creating chances with regularity.
This looks like it could be a long afternoon for these Ipswich players.
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The referee brings the first-half to a close.
It has been an easy day in the office so far for The Gunners.
Ipswich have a huge mountain to climb if they are going to get back into this game.
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45+4. It has all gone according to plan for Arsenal so far.
Raya has not had a single save to make in this game.
They are bossing the hosts and it is almost like defence versus attack.
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45+2. The Ipswich fans start singing 'champions of Europe, you'll never sing that'.
Got to love a bit of banter from the stands.
Odegaard seems to have the freedom of Ipswich in the middle of the park.
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45. Trossard lays it on a plate for Saka.
Once again the winger gets it all wrong as he shanks it wide of the goal.
He should have a hat-trick already in this match.
We are going to have five added minutes.
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43. Odegaard slots it towards the byline for Saka.
He looks to drill a cross in but Palmer is the first to react as he gathers it in.
One-way traffic at Portman Road for the majority of this half.
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41. You wonder how long Arteta will leave his key players on.
He would feel the wrath of the fans and media if someone were go straight through one of them and cause injury.
This seems a lost cause for Ipswich before we have even got to the interval.
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39. A massive chance goes begging for Arsenal.
It is played to Saka with only the keeper to beat in the middle of the goal.
Incredibly, he slices it wide of the target.
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37. Saka cuts inside onto his left foot and looks to bend one into the far corner.
Palmer is at full-stretch but can get nowhere near it as the effort narrowly misses the far post.
All while the Ipswich fans boo The Gunners' winger for his involvement in that red card.
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35. This could turn into a real hiding for the hosts now.
Down to ten men and having to bring off an attacking player to get another defender out on the pitch.
Saka is back up to his feet and able to continue.
View from SunSport's Jordan Davies at Portman Road
Game over. Job done. Ipswich down to 10 men. Now get your star men off, Mikel.
Bukayo Saka has just been on the end of a nasty studs up tackle from Leif Davis which has earned the Tractor Boys defender a straight red, while Martin Odegaard and and Leandro Trossard have also been whacked.
No point taking risks in a game that is done and dusted with bigger fish to fry in Europe...
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33. Things are going from bad to worse for the hosts.
Davis challenges Saka and seems to stand on the back of the winger's heel.
The referee brandishes a red card and he is given his marching orders.
Red card - Leif Davis (Ipswich)
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31. It is one of the reasons why the Tractor Boys seem destined for life in the Championship once again.
You simply cannot get opened up as easily as Ipswich have for the two goals so far this afternoon.
If you do, your survival in the top-flight is going to be impossible.
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29. That goal probably ends this game as a contest.
Brilliant flick in the middle from Merino to put it on a plate for Martinelli at the back post.
He slots home to make it two goals in a week for the Brazilian.