We play football soon, so here we go. All the regulars are still injured, Califiori is listed as a doubt, so maybe he will be in the squad? I also read that Ben White is out training again with the team so that is great. The twitter regular are saying Saliba is out with a hamstring injury, but nothing from Arteta about him.
For Villa they are missing Barkley, McGinn, Pau Torres and Diego Carlos is a doubt but might make it.
Aston Villa, a team we struggle against, but seem to be able to beat away from home more often then at home. In the last 5 direct games they won 2 we won 3...last year they beat us home and away but this season we did them already once in august.
Now, we are tired as fuck, so no idea how we line up and how we score and win, Gabriel must be ready to go as he is our biggest goal threat, and I feel like we need to score early as we will struggle in the second half.
A cool fact about today: Aston Villa have an away record of 4W1D5L this season with a GD of -7. A not so cool fact: Emery has faced Arsenal 8 times as a manager, with a record of 3W3D2L.
Hard game to predict, so we will see.
Raya
Timber Saliba Gab MLS
Partey Rice
Martinelli Ødegaard Trossard
Havertz
I again would say would love to drop Havertz, out of the squad really, but only after Nwaneri is back. I want to forget Sterling exists.
