Premier
League campaign starts this week with an exciting opening game between Arsenal
vs Leicester City at Emirates Stadium.
Kick Off:
19:45 BST
Date: Friday
11 August 2017
Venue:
Emirates Stadium, London
Referee Appointment: Mike
Dean
Stream Guide: Watch Live
Team News:
Arsenal
start the season without Santi Cazorla, Alexis Sanchez and Laurent Koscielny,
the attackers are injured while the defender is out with a red card.
Aaron
Ramsey and Mesut Ozil both are doubtful through injuries.
Center-back
Per Mertesacker is expected to be back from
a face injury which he picked against Chelsea last weekend.
Sead
Kolasinac made a positive first impact against Chelsea, Arsene Wenger is likely
to include him in the starting lineup.
Alex
Iwobi and Danny Welbeck both could are likely to get a starting place.
Shkodran
Mustafi is not fit for the game due to lack of fitness.
Leicester City
Riyad
Mahrez is keen to leave King Power Stadium but has also said he will focus
fully on this game.
Robert
Huth is out through a minor ankle injury, Harry Maguire is likely to make his
debut.
Daniel
Drinkwater, Kelechi Iheanacho and Nampalys Mendy are all doubtful through injuries.
Islam
Slimani is back to training but is not fully fit to feature, he could start
from the bench.
Possible Lineups:
Stats:
Arsenal
have won their last six games against Leicester City in Premier League.
Leicester
have won only two of their last 19 away games in Premier League.
Arsenal
have won their last five games in Premier League.
Leicester
have scored only three goals in their last five away games against Arsenal in
Premier League.
Predictions:
Arsenal
2 – 1 Leicester City, Alexandre Lacazette likely to score for the home side.
Columinst: Junaid Effendi, is the Chief Editor of Football News Guru. He writes Transfer News and all the match related articles. See all his articles.
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