Arsenal
will host league leaders Manchester City in a Premier League game this Thursday
at the Emirates Stadium.
Kick-off:
19:45 BST
Date: Thursday
1, March 2018
Venue:
Emirates Stadium, London
Referee Appointment:
Andre Marriner
Possible Lineups:
Team News:
Arsenal
Arsenal
played without Henrikh Mkhitaryan who was ineligible to feature in the League Cup.
He will return back to the starting lineup.
Alexandre
Lacazette and Santi Cazorla remain on the sidelines but Aaron Ramsey is fully
fit, he featured in the Sunday’s clash.
Sead
Kolasinac likely to take Nacho Monreal role as the Spanaird picked up an injury
on the weekend.
Petr
Cech will be back to the lineup while Mohamed Elneny also eyeing to get a
starting berth.
Fernandinho
will miss this game due to hamstring injury, picked up in the win against
Arsenal.
Pep
Guardiola is likely to make few changes to the squad. John Stones and Aymeric
Laporte could be featuring. Fabian
Delph will also return after missing out the final due to suspension.
Gabriel
Jesus returned from knee injury after two months, he might start from the
bench.
Raheem
Sterling remains doubtful through a hamstring injury.
Stats:
Manchester
City won against Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final last Sunday by 3 goals to
nil.
Arsenal
have won 3 of their last 4 home games against Manchester City in all campaigns.
Manchester
City have won 22 of their last 25 games in Premier League.
Arsenal
have lost only 1 of their last 20 home games in Premier League.
Arsenal
have lost 2 of their last 3 games in Premier League.
Prediction:
Arsenal
1 – 1 Manchester City, Sergio Aguero on the scoresheet for the visitors.
Columinst: Junaid Effendi, is the Chief Editor at Football News Guru. He writes match preview and report of all big games. See all his articles.
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