Arsenal are back in Premier League action this afternoon as Mikel Arteta’s side welcome Crystal Palace to the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners come into this one flying high after their midweek 4-0 victory over Atletico Madrid and will be looking to extend their impressive winning run in all competitions.
All eyes were on team news ahead of kick-off, with supporters eager to see how Arteta would line up following concerns over Gabriel Magalhães’ fitness. The Brazilian picked up an issue during the midweek game and was considered a doubt, so fans will be watching closely to see who starts in defence.
Arsenal v Palace Match Preview
Arsenal will be aiming to make it seven wins in a row and maintain their strong position at the top of the table. The visitors arrive without a win in their last three but will be eager to test Arsenal’s resilience at the Emirates.
Kick-off is at 2:00 PM (UK time).
The confirmed Arsenal line-up to face Crystal Palace is:
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🧱 Saliba and Gabriel holding it down
🇮🇹 Calafiori in at left-back
🪄 Trossard returns to the wingLet’s do this, Gunners 👊 pic.twitter.com/rQpcJADBZ4
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COYG!
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Good lineup
We need a win
But I don’t know I am not feeling too confident today that we will grab the win
I feel it will be a draw
I hope I am wrong
A convincing win here today, could make a strong argument, that the chasing pack could just be playing for minor places
Exactly!
Liverpool lost, which is good for us but Man city & (can’t believe am saying dis) Man utd are picking up points. We can’t afford a drop off right now. Get the points & hope Man city drops.
COYG!
I am not feeling very convinced today
Palace has been superb this season so far
They are very good defensively
Glasner has improved the Eagles defensive organization and stability considerably
Reports suggest the Austrian threatened to quit Palace of a pending sale to Liverpool of Guehi maybe unfounded, but he certainly adds to the Eagles solidity, but at £35 mil that was easy for the Eagles
I think Eze will score against his former team. I believe he’s analyzed his underperformance in the last several club and international matches
If he doesn’t perform well in this game, Nwaneri could play ahead of him in the right-sided AM position in the next EPL match
@Gai
Hope EZE is ready to step up his game.
I also hope Arteta rates Nwaneri enough to bench Eze for him. Imo, the Boy should be given some good playing time considering he is left footed like Odegard.
Happy to see Gabriel at the CB considering his injury scare.
You called it. 👍
Bravo- you guessed correctly. Eze did score.
A win will strengthen our grip and belief in winning the title.
Hopefully the boys deliver and we score some goals.
That Bench is thin on attacking options, hopefully no more injuries.
Exactly and in couple of weeks time there will an useless international break
We were lucky that nobody got injured in October International break
Good lineup
It will be a very tough match but hopefully we will pull out a win
COYG
Should be a routine win ,us having 2 days extra rest should be a deciding factor .
Let’s get the 3 points boys. Set piece again! Ole! ole! ole!….. Really thought we couldn’t risk Big Gabi!
We really shouldn’t be especially with Mosquera being a fantastic stand it
Seems like MA isn’t rotating enough even when the opportunity presents itself. Repeating the exact same patterns which long term caused a lot of our absenteeism
Eze is struggling to settle down at the Arsenal
So far strings of poor performances
Arsenal got to be patient here.
There is no attacking threat from at all the moment
And I can see Palace goal is coming through counter attack
Every time we get into the final third we give the ball away. Palace look more likely to score tbh.
Slow build up play isn’t helping
We are so poor in the final 3rd passing
Not one shot on or off target so far. Hold on, Trossard just got a shot off on 33 mins..
My god this is hard to watch.
Horrible and tbh Eze needs to step up he doesn’t look fit or interested at all, walks far too much
Eze has been poor so far but I’m hoping he gets his moment to shine.
And as I say that..
Eze scored
Just as I wrote this he scores a belter
Great goal, doesn’t mean you weren’t right because you were
Palace are really nullifying our build up for the moment we can’t find our wingers at all. As always they are good at countering when they win back the ball. Difficult match as expected and we have to avoid conceding 1st against them.
Most sensible post so far. Palace made it very difficult
Eze needs to be replaced in the HT
Nwaneri should replace him
Absolute horror show from Eze
Said too early by my 🤣🤣🤣
Set piece fc strikes again, let the raging begin
Ole ole ole😄
So far it seems the narrow marginists to beat at the end the large marginists. The masses predicted here 3 nil and higher; the cautious 2-1. Arsenal waiting a set piece goal from defenders to happen out of no where.
We scored from set-piece again as usual
Imagine if we signed a CF with dominant hold-up play as Mateta and Haaland do. We could’ve created more open-play chances, instead of over-relying on set-piece to score first
Are you kidding GAI? Gyokeres was a workhorse
Gotanidea
Did you see how often BOTH CB’s were doubling Gyokeres denying him the ball? Even Raya was lumping long balls to the wingers.
Don’t care if it’s Haaland or Mateta, no one is fending off 2 CBs, holding possession, and passing it wide to the wingers, no one.
I don’t think Gyokeres will ever live up to your standards or deliver the holdup play no one seems able to do. Even Mateta struggled to holdup play, no dominance whatsoever.
GAI wanted Sesko, he doesn’t and doesn’t want to see Gyokores at Arsenal. His beloved Sesko was his first choice 🤮🤣
When opposing teams keep creating occasions for setpieces through meaningless fouls, what do they expect? We punish them 🤪
Crystal Palace defended really well,particularly in the wide areas,making it hard for Saka and Trossard. Gyokeres working really hard and making runs but his heavy touches let him down.
Hopefully Palace will be tired in the second half given they played Thursday and we can capitalise.
Arsenal are really getting obsessed with maintaining or breaking the record of 0 shot on goal needless rhetoric. Get of this mentality soon as it makes the team be negative thereby dwarfing the attack.
Palace are one of the worst team to play if you are a team who play possession football, they’ll lock the game and wreck you with incisive counters. Concede 1st and it becomes a lot hella worse. But score 1st then they have to open up and push higher up the pitch and they leave space up behind.
We need Martinelli to come in early as he and Gyokeres can feast on the open spaces.
We planned to switch our TV to El Clasico thinking Arsenal would make the score until the El Clasico kick off comfortable. Now sorry we can’t opting rather to watch the 2nd half of Madrid v Barca.
We all need to be more positive and to praise all the players for being top at the moment. This is the most competitive league in the world. A slight drop in form, a few injuries too many, or a weak squad mean you can lose to almost any team. Even Liverpool, Chelsea and Man C are struggling this weekend. Just keep winning Arsenal. COYG
How good Timber today?
Very good and consistent! A great signing
@Moon Girl
Both he and Trossard twisting and turning opposition players like Santi used to. Love it 😁
One of, maybe even our best player today
@Jax
Timber, Rice, Gabe and Trossard. In that order for me…
I agree with that order. Timber best right back in world today.
👍👍👍👍
Looks like more injuries from being overplayed unfortunately, hopefully not very serious
Rice off and we immediately look significantly more vulnerable. Zubemendi doesn’t look comfortable without Rice playing
How did you know the cause of the injuries if I may ask? Do you work for Arsenal physios? Besides, it’s absurd to talk of over playing when we are only in October. Most of the injuries Arsenal players have suffered this season have come from impact which have nothing to do with overplaying. Pathetic to use unfortunate injuries to fit a narrative.
Any team would look more vulnerable if their £100m midfielder left the pitch and his replacement isn’t nearly as good as him. And Zubimendi made some crucial clearances in box in the final ten minutes of relentless Palace pressure.
Zubimendi looked comfortable he’s the new Gilberto Silva (different profiles, same job) and that worked very well for us last time.
Destined to be criminally underated by some, although hopefully much less so than Gilberto was. At least in the modern world Zubimendi won’t have to suffer leaving the club and everyone quoting another player who didn’t play your role (Vieira) as missing from the club in your role that you actually played and when you did many said you were the weak link at it.
The fact Gilberto serves as an ambassador for us now and has never once complained about that entire ongoing tbh situation is a testament to his character.
Honestly I just wanted to shout out Gilberto he should get way more love than he does.
Still, Eze is poor
Great result. We have won four fixtures in a row-we didn’t win any of these four fixtures last season. This is massive in the grand scheme of things. COYG!
Ole ole ole😄
Hardly a classic, but it was never going to be pretty against Palace. I thought Zubimendi was very poor in the first half. His passing was very un-Spannish and put us in trouble a couple of times. I don’t think he’s made for these tough games.
Palace were on us the whole time – like terriers and it made settling into our stride difficult. Lots of head ball – and nothing silky from either side
Was Saliba replaced due to injury? He looked out of sorts. Saka was not at his best either and Raya looked a liability with late decisions playing out and wayward kicks
I wouldn’t have picked out Eze as he was not bad or certainly no worse than some. Trossard was lively and so was Gyokeres who was whippet quick trying to make something happen. Calafiori also had a decent game as did Timber
It was a hard game and our opponents made Arsenal work for the win
Crystal Palace
Correct… this entitlement soem fans have that we should be thrashing teams is very disrespectful.
Palace beat Liverpool 3 times recently and a very good team ..
All teams ( including Citeh ) now parl the bus against us….Slot was bemoaning that they’re also getting the same!
Difference is we have in the games to date stopped the counter attacks and hardly let a goal in.
We are still short of the following attacking players:
Odegaard
Havertz
Madueke
Jesus
That’s 4 potential starters.. !!! Any other team would be happy with not losing. We are top and only conceded 3 goals….
So for those on here that are…lets please stop moaning about us winning please!
Onwards and upwards…COYG
Idc what anyone says, fantastic victory. The team enjoys the suffering and locks in when needed. Free scoring Palace limited to a single shot on target which was essentially Raya beating Nketiah’s header. Of course there is the concern of open play goals, but folks we are top of the league, and the realistic title challengers are 6 & 7 points behind us. Hard to ask for a better scenario, and Kai and Odegaard still to come back