17' Aside from Nketiah's early chance, there have been few openings so far. Both teams are tentatively retaining compact shapes as they look to spring counter-attacks.
15' Mustafi attempts a diagonal pass over the top to Pepe, but Linde anticipates the danger and rushes off his line to get there first.
13' Molde make a rare foray forward down the right as Wingo drills in a low cross, but Xhaka's on hand to hack it away from harm.
11' Willian shimmies past Wingo before hammering in a deep cross that Linde sails out to collect.
9' Molde are already dropping into a deep, compact shape as they attempt to invite Arsenal forward before hitting them on the break.
7' Pepe whips in the resulting corner but Bjornbak heads it clear at the near post.
6' Arsenal almost take the lead! Pepe drives at Haugen before neatly slipping Nketiah through on goal and the striker bears down on Linde before attempting a dink that trickles inches wide after flicking off the goalkeeper!
4' Willock finds a pocket of space out on the right and he teases in a dangerous cross that narrowly evades the run of Nketiah.
2' The away side begin with a long spell of possession around their back four as they attempt to settle into this one.
1' Molde get the first half underway.
The players are emerging from the tunnel and kick off is just seconds away!
Arsenal will need to keenly aware of Molde’s threat on the break today. The Norwegian side won four of their last six away matches in the Europa League, beating Scottish (Celtic) and Irish (Dundalk) opponents on this run.
Molde, meanwhile, make five changes to the side that that collected a 3-1 victory over Mjondalen last time out.
Arsenal completely switch up their lineup with nine changes to the team that defeated Manchester Utd - only Willian and Leno remain from that victorious side.
SUBS: Alex Craninx, Ola Brynhildsen, Birk Risa, Erling Knudtzon, Tobias Christensen, Mattias Mostrom, Marcus Holmgren Pedersen, Mathias Eriksen Ranmark, Leke James, Sheriff Sinyan.
MOLDE (4-3-3): Andreas Linde; Henry Wingo, Martin Bjornbak, Stian Gregersen, Kristoffer Haugen; Fredrik Aursnes, Magnus Wolff-Eikrem, Etzaz Hussain; Martin Ellingsen, Ohikhuaeme Omoijuanfo, Mathis Bolly.
SUBS: Matt Macey, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Bukayo Saka, Alexandre Lacazette, Hector Bellerin, Rob Holding, Cedric Soares, Runar Alex Runarsson, Kieran Tierney, Mohamed Elneny, Thomas Partey, Gabriel Magalhaes.
ARSENAL (4-4-2): Bernd Leno; Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Shkodran Mustafi, David Luiz, Saed Kolasinac; Willian, Dani Ceballos, Granit Xhaka, Nicolas Pepe; Joe Willock, Eddie Nketiah.
Both sides enter this one with the maximum six points from their two games and if one of them can win today, they’ll have done the bulk of the work needed to qualify for the next round.
Hello and welcome to live commentary of this Europa League Group B clash between Arsenal and Molde.
