Premier League, Week 27: Liverpool top Swansea in 7-goal thriller

Those misses wouldn’t turn out to cost Norwich too much -- after Spurs spent injury time indulging in some uncoordinated scrambling around near Ruddy’s goal, the hosts had all three points. It’s a big result at both ends of the table.

He would make amends four minutes later, in the second minute of stoppage time. Again, Vlaar was the biggest culprit for Villa, falling down while Remy was in front of him. That opened up a shooting lane for the Newcastle striker, who scored to end a four-game winless streak for the Magpies.

Newcastle: Krul, Dummett, Coloccini, Williamson, Debuchy, Gouffran, Anita, Tiote (Gosling 89’), Sissoko, Remy, Cisse (de Jong 72’)

Norwich City injuries and suspensions

Tottenham injuries and suspensions

Swansea have been bizarrely inconsistent so far this season, extending their trend of unpredictability under new manager Garry Monk. They’re down in tenth place heading into the round, but have won only thrice away from the Liberty Stadium this season. It’s hard to see them causing an upset at Anfield.

Liverpool injuries and suspensions

Arsenal: Szczesny, Monreal (Jenkinson 45’), Koscielny (Flamini 67’), Mertesacker, Sagna, Arteta, Wilshere, Podolski, Rosicky (Gnabry 73’), Cazorla, Giroud

Goals: Giroud (5’, 31’), Rosicky (42’), Koscielny (57’)

Emirates Stadium; Saturday, 15:00 GMT/10:00 AM ET

One of the better things about the season entering its stretch run is that games which would barely be worth paying attention to in, say, October are suddenly pretty interesting. Both Arsenal and Sunderland are still right on the edge of winning their (respective and disparate) battles, but can’t think of themselves as frontrunners just yet; despite the obvious gap in talent, that both teams have so much riding on every result makes every game they play from here on out significantly more important. That doesn’t mean games such as these will end up being any more competitive or engaging than usual, but this is where the buildup to the season-ending drama begins and it’s a whole lot of fun.