Right, that’s all from me. Bye! Before I go, here’s Ed Aarons’ match report again:

And by way of parting gift here’s Sid Lowe on Manchester United’s defeat at Atletico Madrid:

Eberiche Eze sums the match up:

Good performance. We done what we needed to do, played free and enjoyed it, which is the main thing. A lot of teams come here with a lot of energy so the first half can be quite difficult, but the aim is to grind teams down.

Ed Aarons’ match report has landed!

Twelve wins in a row and counting. On a night when Arsenal remembered Ken Friar – the club’s life president who was instrumental in their move from Highbury to the Emirates in 2006 – it was fitting that Mikel ­Arteta’s side should rack up yet another Champions League milestone at their home that has become a fortress.

Such has Arsenal’s dominance been here in recent seasons that when Bukayo Saka slotted home their third against a dogged Lille side, it was the 36th goal they have scored at the Emirates in the league or group stage since returning to Europe’s top table under Arteta three years ago.

Much more here:

While we wait for our match report, here’s one on England’s 5-0 trouncing of Greece in their women’s World Cup play-off:

Tonight’s Champions League scores in full:

Arsenal 3-0 Lille
Atletico Madrid 2-0 Manchester United
Galatasaray 1-4 Barcelona
Internazionale 3-4 Club Brugge
Lens 0-2 Sporting
RB Leipzig 1-0 PSV
Sabah 2-0 Slavia Prague
Viking 3-3 Bayern Munich*
Villarreal 3-1 Napoli

* Drama here: Viking 2-0 up at half-time, 2-3 down when Michael Olise was sent off for a second yellow card in the 73rd minute, and they snatched a last-minute equaliser.

Jurrien Timber, whose goal cracked Lille open, has a chat:

I had some moments in the first half. The first touch was good, which was half of the job. Then Noni was screaming “Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!”, so I shot. I wasn’t thinking too much. I was just thinking, “I need to shoot”. We needed that first goal. We were playing well but we needed that goal. We know how good we are. First half we had some moments, we were sloppy, but we were always in control. We just need to keep going. It’s still early in the season.

90+2 mins: Havertz closes down the keeper a little overenthusiastically, catches him as he follows through having made his clearance, and is booked.

90+1 mins: Into stoppage time, of which there’ll be three minutes or so.

90 mins: A lovely first-time pass from Odegaard to Dowman, inside a congested penalty area. Doesn’t come to anything, but absolutely great all the same.

88 mins: Manchester United, meanwhile, are two goals and a man down in Madrid.

85 mins: Arsenal bring Max Dowman on for Eze.

84 mins: Arsenal playing at walking pace, which they were pretty much doing for much of the first hour but which feels much less aggravating now.

82 mins: Lille bring Soriba Diaoune on for Bakwa.

81 mins: Goffi gets booked for fouling Eze, not a good challenge at all, but not quite bad enough for anything more severe.

78 mins: Olivier Giroud gets the fourth-loudest cheer of the night so far as he comes on for Ueda. Calvin Verdonk also comes on, for Perraud, and Arsenal bring Ben White on for Timber.

77 mins: Lille give the ball away again, about 40 yards from their goal, and Arsenal have four against two and really should score. But Guimaraes has no interest in passing it, and instead takes a shot from 25 yards that Ozer saves.

77 mins: Olivier Giroud is, apparently, about to get his moment.

76 mins: Not having Gyokeres on the pitch makes such a big difference for Arsenal.

73 mins: Almost a chance for Lille! Rice thinks he’s been fouled but the referee waves play on, the ball is played infield from the right to Bakwa, and Konsa throws himself in the way of his shot.

73 mins: Lille take off Bentaleb and Mukau, and bring on Sahraoui and Kjaergaard.

70 mins: Save! Arsenal are now all but unstoppable. Saka’s cross from the right almost falls to Rice, and a few seconds later Eze is played in to the left of goal, but Ozer gets a hand to his shot.

65 mins: Arsenal make their triple substitution, with Madueke, Merino and Gyokeres going off for Saka, Odegaard and Havertz.

65 mins: Madueke plays the ball into Timber, inside the penalty area but with his back to goal, whose first touch takes him past Andre, and whose second dinks it over Ozer. That really is very good.

63 mins: Lille haven’t got out of their half since the break. They’ve been appalling in possession, but still defensively and organisationally excellent.

62 mins: Arteta has seen enough, and is readying Havertz, Saka and Odegaard for an imminent triple change.

61 mins: Guimaraes attempts a 360-degree penalty-area pirouette. Sure, he loses the ball, but those dancing feet!

60 mins: Guimaraes runs into the area and goes down, and this time Arsenal are interested. But the referee is not, and neither is VAR.

59 mins: Lille take too long over a defensive throw-in, and it gets handed to Arsenal. But again, nothing comes of it.

57 mins: It may be time for Arsenal to utilise their bench – the only thing that’s really changed since half-time is the amount of grumbling coming from the crowd.

54 mins: Arsenal keep the ball for a while, but the closer they get to goal the less keen they seem to be to reach it.

52 mins: Madueke catches Perraud, who goes down, smacking the turf with a palm in apparent agony. So the referee blows his whistle, at which point Perraud’s agony magically evaporates, and he gets up.

51 mins: Arsenal do appear to have been instructed to get a move on, and the ball is zipping about with a bit more pace. Which is promising.

49 mins: Guimaraes takes the first shot of the second half, but it’s not very good, and floats harmlessly high and wide.

48 mins: … but that doesn’t lead to anything more than a goal kick.

47 mins: The first half ended(ish) with a couple of Arsenal corners and the second half has started similarly. This time they’re also going to get a third, which Rice is going to take.

46 mins: Peeeeeeep! Arsenal get the ball re-rolling.

The players are back out at the Emirates, with no halftimely changes.

Also in the Champions League tonight:

Atletico Madrid 1-0 Manchester United

Galatasaray 1-1 Barcelona
Viking 2-0 Bayern Munich
Lens 0-2 Sporting
Sabah 2-0 Slavia Prague
Internazionale 1-1 Club Brugge
RB Leipzig 0-0 PSV
Villarreal 2-1 Napoli

45+1 mins: Save! Guimaraes’s deflected shot bamboozles Ozer, who can’t hold on to it and has to dive again to claw the ball off the toes of Gyokeres and out for a corner.

45 mins: … and his second attempt is cleared.

44 mins: Madueke takes the corner, which is headed behind for another corner.

43 mins: Madueke backheels into the path of the overlapping Timber, but he can’t pick out Gyokeres with his low cross, which is turned behind.

40 mins: Arsenal have both not really done very much, and done more than enough to be winning by now. They haven’t had any periods of sustained attacking, though, no time when a goal has seemed to be coming.

37 mins: What a chance that was! A brilliant pass from Guimaraes finds Timber, who pulls back to Eze, who really should be scoring. Instead he sidefoots low and down the centre of the goal and Ozer gets in the way, and to make matters worse the ball then rebounds to Gyokeres, who’s offside.

35 mins: Madueke’s cross drops eventually off Goffi’s shoulder to Merino, who thumps a first-time shot over the bar.

32 mins: Lille appear to have succeeded in the first task of visiting teams, aka quietening the crowd.

29 mins: Arsenal nick the ball in midfield and pass it up to Merino, who turns backwards, the pace drains out of the move, and then he gives it away for good measure. A few seconds later he tried a bit too hard to make amends, brings down Ueda and earns the night’s first booking.

27 mins: A quarter of the way through the match and there has been one shot on target, that feeble Merino header.

24 mins: The VAR takes long enough to check the decision that you start to think that he might just conjure a reason to give it. But he doesn’t.

22 mins: Bentaleb’s shot deflects off a defender into Haraldsson and off him to Ueda, who turns it in. But the linesman’s flag is up!

22 mins: And another one! Timber is the provider again, this time his cross from the right looping onto the head of Merino, but there’s not a lot of pace on it, and Merino can’t generate much of his own, so it ends up being an easy save for Ozer.

20 mins: Chance! Arsenal work the ball well to get into the area, Timber pulls back to Guimaraes, and his first-time shot from eight yards or so zips wide!

19 mins: Madueke tricks himself into some space on the right (good), but then sends in a rubbish cross (bad).

17 mins: Raya collects a cross and then rolls it two-handed out to the edge of the area, where the closest player to the ball turns out to be Lille’s Ayase Ueda. Rice reacts quickly to this development, though, and in the time Ueda takes to spin to face goal, he sticks out a foot and pushes the ball away.

15 mins: Now Eze does get into the penalty area with the ball. He tees up Guimaraes, who takes a touch and then hits a shot into Bentaleb – there were four Lille players between him and goal, and he was always likely to hit one of them.

13 mins: For the second time Eze passes forwards to the underlapping Lewis-Skelly, who gives the ball away. Arsenal could really do with getting Lewis-Skelly feeding a more advanced Eze.

11 mins: Mukau tries to be a bit fancy in midfield, gives the ball away, and fouls Eze as he tries to win it back.

9 mins: Eze, on the left, gets past his man nicely but falls over just as he enters the penalty area. Probably a genuine fall rather than a dive – he didn’t even look at the referee in hope.

7 mins: A tasty cross from Arsenal’s right tests Ozer in the Lille goal, and he comes for it, flaps a bit, and just deflects it beyond his goal, where it falls to a defender.

6 mins: This time Madueke comes infield and finds a nice pass into the penalty area, but Guimaraes can’t take it in his stride, Lille pounce upon the ball and break fast and well, but without crafting a significant chance.

4 mins: Arsenal have the ball on the right. Madueke passes back to Rice, who gives it back to him, gets it back from him, gives it back to him, gets it back from him and gives it back to him. At which point Madueke slips, falls over, accidentally handles the ball and the referee gives a free-kick.

2 mins: Lille kick off, keep the ball for 45 seconds and then pass it back to their keeper, who biffs it left-footed down the flank into a quarter of the pitch with no Lille players in it at all.

1 min: Peeeeeep!

Right then. Hands shaken, coin tossed, pennants exchanged, huddles broken. It’s time.

The players are in the tunnel! Football is but a few minutes away now.

“With the Eurostar links close by both grounds is it time to call this the St Pancras-ico?” wonders Chris Walker. The Eurostarby, perhaps?

Most of Mikel Arteta’s pre-match chat with TNT Sports focuses on Ken Friar, Arsenal’s life president, whose death aged 92 was announced today. He was, Arteta says, “the soul of this football club. This stadium wouldn’t be built if it wasn’t for him. The legacy is immense.”

Lovely night for football, this. About 16C as I type, dipping very slightly perhaps to 15C by the final whistle. No risk of rain. That’s the Met Office’s predictions, not my own. From where I’m sitting, all I can say is that the night looks dark.

Olivier Giroud has a chat:

Definitely a special moment. This kind of warm welcome when I just got off the coach meant a lot to me. We will need to be really compact and try to catch them on the counter-attack. We need to close the gap between our lines, be compact and just try to be efficient up front. I just love the game and as long as my body still allows me a little nit I’m still going really strong. I just want to enjoy every single moment. This one is special and I just want to enjoy it.

Also happening tonight under the watchful eye of Guardian’s crack liveblogging squad: England play Greece in the second leg of their women’s World Cup qualifying play-off with Rob Smyth plugged in here:

While John Brewin is watching Atletico Madrid’s home game against Manchester United in the Champions League here: