Arsenal vs Leeds United - prediction, team news, lineups

Separated by conscionable 3 points and 3 positions successful the early-season Premier League standings, Arsenal and Leeds United reconvene astatine the Emirates Stadium connected Saturday lunchtime pursuing the planetary break.

The reigning champions entered the hiatus shell-shocked owing to a 3-0 reverse to Brighton & Hove Albion, portion the Whites inactive person zero losses connected their top-flight grounds aft 5 matches.

Match preview

Seagull-ed into submission by a mesmerising Brighton portion connected September 19, Arsenal's 100% commencement to the run crossed each competitions ended prematurely and with a whimper astatine the Amex Stadium, wherever Pascal Gross, Charalampos Kostoulas and Chema Andres breached David Raya's backline.

Arteta lamented a deficiency of "respect" from his second-best charges connected the South Coast, wherever Brighton's ruthless finishing, relentless pressing and set-piece mastery saw Fabian Hurzeler's men bushed Arsenal astatine their ain game.

The Gunners' three-goal nonaccomplishment was poetic successful a neutral sense, arsenic it marked their heaviest Premier League decision since an identical effect against nary different than Brighton successful May 2023, portion besides allowing Manchester City to participate the planetary interruption successful apical spot.

However, disappointment gave mode to delight close astatine the extremity of the lengthy home pause, arsenic Arsenal confirmed that Arteta had signed a caller semipermanent contract, prolonging the concern betwixt the nine and the manager with the champion triumph complaint successful the past of the men's squad - 61%.

The Spaniard has overseen 5 of those victories successful Arsenal's past 5 Premier League location games, during which the holders person conceded conscionable 1 extremity portion putting 10 distant astatine the different end, and not since January 8 against Liverpool person they failed to people successful a top-flight location contest.

One of Arsenal oregon Leeds inactive being unbeaten up of Saturday's gathering was a realistic script astatine the commencement of the season, but fewer could person envisaged the visitors heading to the Emirates with specified a grounds inactive intact.

However, Daniel Farke's broadside person done what the Gunners could not - instrumentality a constituent disconnected of Brighton - successful summation to overcoming Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United portion playing retired further stalemates with London clubs Brentford and Palace.

The Whites did thrust their luck a small against the Eagles, who were made to wage for missed chances astatine Elland Road successful gameweek five, but their deficiency of a slayer last onslaught ensured Leeds would station their champion commencement to a top-flight play since 2001-02.

As good arsenic taking 9 points from a imaginable 15 to beryllium 5th successful the table, Leeds person the Premier League's joint-best antiaircraft grounds with conscionable 3 goals shipped, superior to Arsenal's 4 and level with Everton's ain trio.

Farke's broadside fto successful a staggering 9 against Arsenal past season, though - suffering a 5-0 Emirates nonaccomplishment and 4-0 location decision - meaning that they person present mislaid each of their past 8 matches against the wounded champions.

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Team News

An all-too acquainted communicative for Arsenal, Arteta has been counting the outgo of a casualty-heavy planetary break, 1 which saw each of Declan Rice, Ezri Konsa, Kai Havertz, Max Dowman and Christos Tzolis retreat from their countries owed to injury.

The presumption of each subordinate of the quintet is inactive unclear, though Rice and Konsa are not thought to beryllium suffering from superior damage; Arteta volition nary uncertainty beryllium pressed for an update erstwhile helium faces the media.

Ben White (groin) and Cristhian Mosquera (thigh) are besides connected the hosts' touch-and-go list, portion William Saliba (back) is the sole semipermanent absentee, but Arsenal person been handed a large boost implicit his recovery.

Leeds did not travel retired of the three-week hiatus unscathed either, but Farke is lone managing the 1 planetary withdrawal in Jean-Matteo Bahoya, who sustained an ankle occupation portion with France's Under-21s.

The summertime signing joins Mateo Joseph (ACL), Joe Rodon (thigh) and Harry Wilson (thigh) successful the Leeds infirmary, but the second has not been firmly ruled retired of this contention conscionable yet.

Following an underwhelming planetary interruption successful which helium featured for conscionable 15 minutes successful an England shirt, Dominic Calvert-Lewin seeks to extremity a nine-game extremity drought vs. Arsenal, whom helium past scored against successful February 2020.

Arsenal imaginable starting lineup:

Raya; Timber, Konsa, Gabriel, Calafiori; Rice, Lewis-Skelly; Saka, Odegaard, Eze; Gyokeres

Leeds United imaginable starting lineup:

Trafford; Justin, Muharemovic, Elvedi; Bogle, Tanaka, Ampadu, Stach, Gudmundsson; Okafor, Calvert-Lewin

We say: Arsenal 2-1 Leeds United

Arsenal's antiaircraft mightiness was non-existent astatine the Amex, but the Gunners present tackle a Leeds broadside who person not adjacent netted fractional of Brighton's league-leading 16 goals this season.

The archetypal crippled backmost aft the planetary interruption brings with it galore uncertainties, but adjacent with a big of fittingness concerns, Arsenal's squad extent should travel to the fore astatine location arsenic the Gunners instrumentality to triumphant ways.

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