Arsenal clash with Man City moved to rare Thursday Premier League night game
Gunners announce four new dates for the Premier League diary with all games set to be covered live by Sky Sports
ARSENAL will entertain Premier League leaders Manchester City in a rare Thursday night showdown.
The teams meet at the Emirates on March 1.
Originally they were set to face each other on Sunday, February 25.
But the fixture has been postponed because City play in the Carabao Cup final on that day.
March 1 is still a provisional date.
For it could be that Raheem Sterling and co. are involved in an FA Cup fifth-round replay in which cased another date will have to be found.
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plan to cover the game live, kick-off 7.45pm.
Several other Arsenal games have been re-arranged.
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The Gunners' game at Brighton, originally scheduled for Saturday, March 3, has been put back 24 hours to Sunday, March 4 at 1.30pm.
Their home date with Watford has been switched from Saturday, March 10, to Sunday, March 11, kick-off also 1.30pm.
And another home league showdown, this time against Stoke City, will now take place on Sunday, April 1, kick-off 1.30pm, as opposed to Saturday, March 31.
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March 3 Liverpool vs Newcastle United, 5.30pm
March 10 Chelsea vs Crystal Palace, 5.30pm
March 17 Liverpool vs Watford, 5.30pm
March 31 Everton vs Manchester City, 5.30pm
Like the City game, these three other matches will be shown live on Sky Sports.
Arsenal fans will look forward to seeing new signing Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Mesut Ozil in the same team.
Mkhitaryan told : "Here at Arsenal I know that lots of players move a lot and it’s incredible the way [the team] plays.
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"I will do my best to assist them as well. "I think it will be really fun to play alongside Ozil.
Everyone knows he’s a fantastic player, he’s an assist king! I look forward to it.
"[I admire] his intelligence, the way that he can understand the game, reads the game, plus the way he gives pace to the game and, of course, his final decision."