Arsenal welcome former manager Unai Emery and his Aston Villa side to the Emirates Stadium on Saturday in a key test of the Gunners' Premier League title aspirations.
The pressure was off Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta in midweek as his side battled back from a goal down to beat north London rivals Tottenham on Wednesday. But questions remain about the home side's lackluster attack following injuries to Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus.
Villa's hopes have been hampered by their indifferent form in the run-up to Christmas. The visitors started the new year in positive style, however, with an FA Cup win over West Ham sandwiched between EPL double wins over Leicester and Everton.
Arsenal take on Aston Villa on Saturday 17 January at the Emirates Stadium in north London, kick-off 17:30 GMT local time. That makes a 12:30pm ET or 9:30am PT start in the US and Canada, and a 4:30am AEDT Starting in Australia in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Below, we'll present the best live TV streaming services use it to watch the match as it happens, wherever you are in the world.
Ollie Watkins scored the winner in Aston Villa's 1-0 win away at Everton in midweek.
How to watch Arsenal vs Aston Villa in USA without cable
Saturday's Arsenal vs Villa match will be broadcast on NBC and can be streamed online via Peacock. You will need a Peacock Premium or Premium Plus account to follow the game live.
Peacock offers two Premium plans, and after recent price increases, the ad-supported Premium plan costs $8 per month and the ad-free Premium Plus plan is $14 per month.
How to watch the 2024-25 Premier League season from anywhere with a VPN
If you find you can't watch EPL matches locally, you may need a different way to watch the games — that's where using a VPN can help. A VPN is also the best way to prevent your ISP from throttling your game-day speeds by encrypting your traffic, and it's also a great idea if you're traveling and find yourself connected to Wi-Fi and want to add an extra layer of privacy for your devices and logins.
With a VPN, you can virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop to access the game. Most VPNs, like our Editors' Choice, ExpressVPN, make this really easy.
Using a VPN to watch or stream sports is legal in any country where VPNs are legal, including the US, UK and Canada, as long as you have a legitimate subscription to the service you're streaming. You should make sure your VPN is set up correctly to prevent leaks: even when VPNs are legal, a streaming service can terminate the account of anyone it deems to be circumventing properly enforced blackout restrictions.
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ExpressVPN is our current top VPN pick for people who want a reliable and secure VPN that works on different devices. It's normally $13 a month, but if you sign up for an annual subscription for $100, you'll get three months free and save 49%. That equates to $6.67 per month.
Note that ExpressVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Arsenal vs Aston Villa live in UK
Saturday's early evening kick-off is exclusive to Sky Sports, showing on Sky Sports' Main Event, Premier League and UHD channels. If you already have Sky Sports as part of your TV package, you can stream the game via the Sky Go app, but cord cutters will want to set up a Now account and Now Sports membership to stream the game.
The Sky Now subsidiary offers streaming access to Sky Sports channels with a Now Sports membership. You can get a day's access for £15 or sign up to a monthly plan for £35 a month right now.
Arsenal vs Aston Villa live in Canada
If you want to stream this EPL game live in Canada, you will need to subscribe to Fubo Canada. The service has exclusive rights to every Premier League game once again this season.
Fubo is the right destination for Canadians looking to watch the EPL this season, with exclusive streaming rights to every match. It costs CA$30 per month, although you can save cash by paying quarterly or annually.
Arsenal vs Aston Villa live in Australia
Football fans Down Under can watch EPL matches live on streaming service Optus Sport, which is showing all Premier League matches live from the 2024-2025 season in Australia.
With exclusive rights to stream all live EPL matches this season, as well as games from Germany's Bundesliga and Spain's La Liga, the Optus Sport streaming service is a particularly big draw for Australian football fans.
If you're already a customer on the Optus network, you can buy Optus Sport for a discounted price, with discounts bringing the price down to as low as AU$7 per month. If you're not, a standalone monthly subscription to the service starts at AU$25.
Quick tips for streaming the Premier League using a VPN
- With four variables at play – your ISP, browser, video streaming provider and VPN – your experience and success in streaming EPL matches may vary.
- If you don't see your desired location as a default option for ExpressVPN, try using the “city or country search” option.
- If you're having trouble downloading the game after turning on your VPN and setting it to the correct viewing area, there are two things you can try to quickly fix it. First, log in to your streaming service subscription account and make sure the address registered for the account is an address in the correct viewing area. If not, you may need to change the physical address on file with your account. Second, some smart TVs — like Roku — don't have VPN apps that you can install directly on the device itself. Instead, you'll have to install a VPN on your router or the mobile hotspot you're using (like your phone) so that every device on its Wi-Fi network now appears in the correct viewing location.
- All of the VPN providers we recommend have helpful instructions on their main site for quickly installing a VPN on your router. In some cases with Smart TV services, after you install the sports app on a cable network, you will be asked to verify a numeric code or click on a link sent to your email address in your Smart TV file. This is where having a VPN on your router will also help, as both devices will appear to be in the correct location.
- And remember, browsers can often give away location despite using a VPN, so make sure you're using a privacy-first browser to log into your services. We usually recommend Brave.