Confirmed Arsenal Team to take on Crystal Palace this evening including Ramsdale’s return

The teams are out for tonight’s Premier League clash between Arsenal and Crystal Palace in Selhurst Park.

We are looking to return to the top four after Spurs managed to beat Newcastle convincingly on Sunday, and join us on 54 points, whilst we have played two matches less than our rivals.

A point will be enough to see us return to fourth this evening, but we should be targeting all three in order to close the gap on Chelsea who currently occupy third, with the Blues having lost to Brentford on Saturday.

It’s great to see Ramsdale make hi return to action after his latest injury, while Bukayo Saka also makes the selection having missed the international break after contracting Covid-19.

I feel good with the team on show, with Tavares also getting his first league start in 2022.

What are your predictions after seeing the XI?

Patrick

Tags Crystal Palace v Arsenal

164 Comments

  1. As I said, Mateta and Zaha would likely bully White and Soares in aerial duels. Kouyate will surely be dominant in the air against our attackers

    Partey, Odegaard and Saka have to protect our short defenders. I think we can only score in the second half

    1. You talk to much nonsense on here. What statistics are you using to think we can only score in the 2nd half? Can’t we just enjoy a game without a touch of your negativity here?

    2. Nothing to worry about Gai there are technical ways to bypass bulish players. Palace came to the Emirate with this bullish players when when Arsenal was just picking form. It’s a different scenario now. Arteta and the players are also aware. With all there aerial abilities, C. Palace are the third team in the league to conceed highteat set piece. The couldn’t even score a header in the Emirate stadium. I see a draw written on this game considering the last 5 matches we have played C. palace

  2. Not after his last performance where he was taken off for being so poor doesn’t feel me with confidence not got a good feeling about this game!

    1. The game where Tierney came on and was equally as poor ,before that he looked great and was keeping the Scot out the team .
      He offers something completely different to Tierney with his pace and power

      1. Still stick by what you say was a discrace whoever scouted him should be sacked non league football would be to high for him!!

  3. Cant wait any longer.Lets go to the stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    —————-Come On You Gunners——————

  4. We will badly miss Tierney and Tavares will weaken our defence .
    Hope Martinelli comes on as sub, sooner rather than later , in place of LACA , of whom I stand firmly against the massive overhyping of this willing, though non striking so called “striker”.

    To my mind LACA IS A WEAK LINK AND WE NEED SOMEONE FAR BETTER THAN HIM AND WE NEED HIM REALLY SOON THIS SUMMER.

    1. True Jon, and well said.
      I would like to see Martinelli in the middle, with Saka and ESR on the wings.

      I think we would be more creative for sure, faster, and able to score goals with any of those 3 across the front.

      Laca has been a poor striker, and some would gloss over that by bragging about his buildup as if he was a midfielder rather than a striker.

  5. C’mon ESR, Saka and the new creative general Odegaard. That’s the key. Why not?

  6. Trying to listen to the game but palace always have some clown with a drum banging it all game

    1. Ben White giving away a ridiculous freekick not to blame at all? Made a mistake in the 1st minute of the game too but like normal was saved by his pace alone.

      You do know Gabriel called and jumped for it? Watch again. Tavares partly to blame as well def

      Also Tavares, like almost all our subs, is extremely rusty.

    1. What on earth was he doing?? Puts everyone out of position….2nd time this game he’s gone for the ball, missed it and then a goal was scored.

  7. What a load of crap this performance is so far embarrassing to say the least getting out played by crystal palace how far down can this once great club sink.
    No clue to why we are so crap tonight

  8. Arsenal will loose because of brick head tavares in LB. Anyway spuds will win 7 out of 8 next match. Arsenal will win 6 of next 10. Next season UEL here we come.

  9. Palace look like they want to win for a massive prize! We look like we’re in a pre season warm up.. typical!

  10. This is exactly what some fans were saying after our transfer window. Squad is way too thin and on top of that we have almost zero rotation even when winning.

    Results in subs being so rusty and 1 or 2 injuries screws us.

    1. Exactly what a few of us said but most fans wanted to live in fantasy land. We warned about this hurting our hopes for top 4 chances. Someone wrote an article about it. 90% of the fans comments crucified him. Now who’s being realistic? Playing like this against Crystal Palace who is supposed to be one of the easy games in our run in for top 4. The way spurs are playing now coupled with their fixtures, the article written then seems to have predicted accurately.

  11. Wow,
    1. Don’t take any team for granted in the PL
    2. Players getting too comfortable assuming they are walking into the lineup.
    3. We have not rid ourselves of silly mistakes, as evident in this game.

    If Tierney wasn’t injured, then why bench him?
    Saka coming off sickness yet starts, so why not Tierney and Martinelli?

    Tavares had a good run, but showing he is clearly not as good as many thought. Pace and strength maybe, but poor defender.

    1. Had u said this b4 d match start I will have taking u serious. You know u Ar saying this bcos we are losing.

      1. No, I tuned in after it started, when I finished working today. Tavares never should have started over a healthy Tierney period.

        If Saka was fit enough, then surely so was Martinelli. Laca as toothless as always; playing as a midfielder when we need a striker. Arteta has to because Laca toothless as a striker.

        Lastly, Nketiah on before Pepe is criminal. Sure Pepe is underperforming, but he’s still levels above Nketiah.

        Losing 3-0 is fitting based on the trash they served up on the pitch. PV got them defending, haven’t conceded a goal in a month or more.

        Shame really, manhandled by palace. Tip your hat to PV, done wonders this year with Palace and that group of players.

  12. Partey playing as the DM and Odegaard and Xhaka as 2 number 8s with no pace between them ,easy for palace every time we go forward .
    Tavares getting rammed for getting pushed from behind but no mention of our 50 million pound man going through the back of Zaha which started the whole debacle.

  13. A team with nothing to play for working it’s socks off a team with everything to play for weak lazy and purposeless …

    1. We cant even get the basics right. Our passing is Sunday league. It’s not worthy of top 10 let alone top 4!

    2. Sums it up perfectly, PV motivated a squad with nothing to play for, Arteta subbing desperate to find any answer.

      4th isn’t ours yet, we can go either way at this point. Outplayed by Palace, somebody wake up Arteta and the boys.

  14. Who is our CAM? They are nowhere mear the middle of the park meaning useless Laca drops into that hole leaving us with zero options upfront

    1. No cam
      Odegaard and Xhaka being played as 2 number 8s and Laca dropping back ,makes for the slowest load of crap I’ve seen in years ,easy for palace and Veira ,no shot on target in the first half .

  15. Interesting to see if arteta has any idea about how to turn this around .. I doubt it but hoping he proves me wrong .. otherwise it’s just emery all over again

  16. Guys don’t worry, Spurs won 5-1 so it’s only fair we lose by the same margin to make things extra difficult for ourselves. It’s the arsenal way.

  17. Pathetic half made palace look like Man City/Liverpool combined. Didn’t think we would win tonight but didn’t expect this!

  18. Pointless playing xhaka and lacazette in this run in … not only are the pair of them 2/3rd rate footballers with no leadership quslities but they are off in the summer ..:

  19. 1st goal crucial at Palace what was d’at donkey white thinking with a soft free kick🙄 quiteing the crowd and all dat

  20. Told you Palace’s aerial ability is kinda scary. The passes of both our main pivots, Lacazette and Partey, are quite bad today

    Nobody can replace Partey, but Lacazette has to improve his concentration. If he can’t focus after the 60th minute, I’d replace him with Nketiah if I were Arteta

    1. Get Odegaard off put ESR in the number 10 and put Martinelli on ,this is what happens when you have such a small squad with players that cannot take the game by the scuff of the neck when the going gets tough .
      No shot on target in the first half ..pathetic

  21. This is now where we will see what Mikel is all about! He needs to get these boys going as this has been a disastrously bad 1st half from Arsenal.

    We need to go all out to get an early goal and get back Into this, get Martinelli on the pitch. Unlucky about Tierney & Taveres not being up to speed.

  22. Utter crap first half from a side that look clueless.. so far:

    Tavares 2/10
    Partey 3/10
    Xhaka 4/10
    Oderard 4/10
    White 3/10
    Laca 4/10
    Saka 4/10
    Smith Row 4/10
    Gabriel 3/10

    Total garbage!!!

    1. Xhaka is among the worst midfielders in the premiership which is why no club has shown interest in him at any point in his Arsenal career indeed only Berlin and Roma have expressed interest .. it’s basically like playing with 10 men and as soon as pastry’s form drops that’s the midfield handed to opponents … serves arteta right for not bringing in a quality option in the position …

  23. maybe switch to back 3 with Martenelli coming on?

    or replace Xhaka with Martenelli and Smith Rowe drops alongside Partey?

  24. Leaderless, clueless bunch out there!

    I don’t expect much from Tavares….young, inexperienced, not match fit, barely sees a field and looks like he doesn’t get much coaching.

    White and Gabriel are all over the show, very embarrassing. Laca, Xhaka and Partey aren’t doing much better either. Ode spends all of his time within 2 meters of Saka which only works if Martinelli is playing, ESR clearly needs more support from the centre of the park but no-ones there.

    1. Both our supposedly best CBS in the last 10 years (apparently) make mistakes and Tavares who like you have said hasn’t been seen for 3-4 months get me blamed for their mistakes .
      How Ben white is worth 50 million is beyond me .

      1. Hopefully Saliba can compete and replace him. Aside from pace and technique, Saliba has him beat in height, strength, and aerial ability.

        White isn’t worth the £50 million, too often ball watching and sleepy with crosses.

  25. I thought arteta has seen how this palace side play especially against city.

    I would have thought the team could have played more to maintain balance by conceding possession a bit knowing fully well we don’t have the sort of fast attackers like palace’s.

    Really the game had been poorly managed.

  26. But if we can see it the dogs in the street can see if how dose xhaka get away with it

  27. I thought it was a foul as well but he went down far easily. Tierney in that position wouldn’t go down.

  28. TBH I don’t know how much more motivation they required – the spuds had just taken our CL place, and it just didn’t look like anyone wanted to take it back. We had everything to play for and more.

  29. Xhaka left back 2nd half noooooooo back 3 tavares finnished at arsenal poor management

  30. So you pathetic excuse for a fans finaly got what you wanted, for a club that you supposedly cheer for to have a bad game after a long time, not even a game, a halftime so you can crawl out of your holes and shit all over our team. You disgust me. You should stand behind your team but that is for true fans.

    1. Seriously lord motivo i dnt understand the kind of fans arsenal hav they are so pathetic. They have been doing this All season. When arsenal has a couple winning run, ArsenaL is d best best, the coach is d best. Immediately something goes wrong then arsenal is sheet, all the players are sheet, the coach is sheet. Same players and coach that got us to too 4. As if they expect arsenal to win all their remaining game 100%. Things are gonna go wrong along the way like chelsea at home against Brentford

  31. Interesting tactical change! Had the idea of a switch to a back 3 with Martinelli coming in earlier in the first half. Hopefully, it yields some reward.

  32. I’d rather have Leno upfront than Laca

    It’s hard to keep up with the pace of our game 🤣

  33. As soon as we got rid of our one striker with no alternative brought in we should have known it would come to haunt us .. sadly this game will mark the end of 4th place euphoria and I simply don’t see arteta having the strength and knowledge to get us back on track .. the difference with Spurs is pretty stark in my books

  34. Partey injured….and another player that hasn’t seen a field for months comes on. Been saying for months that we don’t rotate nearly enough and to try give fringe players more game time when winning.

    Tavares looked fresh and ready right? Absolute joke

  35. Pure shite arsenal won’t win another game this season party weak like the rest of arsenal crap

  36. Game over. Our players still can’t handle Palace’s physicality and the international break seemed to have broken Lacazette’s/ Partey’s focuses

    A new CF and an old towering one are essential in the summer

  37. Game lost. We are behind Spurs. That’s the reality. So instead of shading the boys and over analysing how we lost, we should move on to the next one and see the positives if any. One, top 4 pressure is not on us anylonger. Arsenal FC dont do so well under pressure.

  38. Crystal Palace v Crystal meth.

    Way to throw the towel in and hand the spuds 4th spot.

  39. Exactly my thoughts. Let Spurs take the top4 favorite tag and take some pressure off Arsenal. Spurs over to you :-))

  40. We should drop one of our CB and play Holding.

    Holding may not be a great ball playing CB but he dowa not make stupid mistakes like the current two.

  41. I was rueing us play on Monday night, with all the other games done, they will be pressure on us to perform. And Crystal Palace is a place to get a win.

    1. Kobin, playing Monday was the best possible advantage. It should have given Arteta and his players more time to regroup.

  42. This is very disappointing.

    Lacazette should be on the bench.
    Martinelli should play as a CF.

  43. In fairness this game could b 3-2 to arsenal sóft goals soft partey and poor referee poor finishing by arsenal

    1. Yes they are
      But what does that say about our performance tonight?
      I’m going in Saturday so I hope it’s a better showing than this inept load of poo

  44. Paul Tierney Palace fan 4 sure sambi looks lot better than partey xhaka shooting hahaha

  45. This game has highlighted a few things…

    MA tactically got it wrong.

    Tavares was a massive mistake.

    Xhaka and Laca need to move on.

    Much more work to do. We still show a soft under belly.

    Well done Palace and Vierra. Much deserved. Congrats!!

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