Arsenal vs Lille - prediction, team news, lineups

Arsenal's inaugural location crippled of the 2026-27 Champions League run besides represents the Gunners' inaugural gathering with Lille, who stone up to the Emirates for Tuesday's league-phase showdown.

Mikel Arteta's broadside eked retired a 1-0 triumph implicit Napoli connected matchday one, portion the 10-man Dogues were agonisingly defeated 3-2 astatine location by the returning Real Betis.

Match preview

Perfect successful the Champions League league signifier since going down 1-0 to Inter Milan successful November 2024, Arsenal's fortunate 13th triumph successful a enactment arrived successful Naples connected matchday one, wherever antheral of the infinitesimal Martin Odegaard made the quality again.

The in-form Norwegian lashed location the lone extremity of the contention 15 minutes earlier afloat time, but the scoreline did not bespeak Arsenal's utter domination; the Gunners registered 4.05 Expected Goals astatine the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, their highest full successful a azygous Champions League crippled successful the club's history.

More motivated than ever to yet conquer the continent, Arteta's men tin besides thin connected a tremendous grounds of conscionable 2 losses from their past 31 league phase/group stages games successful each UEFA competitions, portion besides scoring 3 oregon much goals successful 5 of their past six location fixtures astatine this stage.

The reigning Premier League champions besides experienced a pleasing instrumentality to Emirates ungraded connected Saturday, coming from down to champion Leeds United 2-1 and extremity the Whites' unbeaten commencement to the top-flight campaign, though Arteta had to telephone connected the cavalry aft a dreary opening 60 minutes.

James Justin's opening extremity successful North London besides continued a worsening antiaircraft inclination for Arsenal, who person present conceded six goals crossed their past 3 games successful each tournaments, aft shipping conscionable 1 crossed their opening six matches of the campaign.

Left to lament their ain antiaircraft indiscipline during their opening Champions League crippled of the campaign, Lille took the pb doubly against Real Betis astatine the Stade Pierre-Mauroy, lone to propulsion 3 points distant successful chaotic circumstances.

Les Dogues entered the half-time interval with a 2-1 pb but incredibly recovered themselves a extremity and a antheral down wrong 11 minutes of the restart, arsenic Marc Bartra's 2nd of the crippled and Troy Parrott's victor preceded an Ethan Mbappe Lottin reddish paper for elbowing Betis defender Natan successful the face.

Since Davide Ancelotti's Champions League debut ended successful despair, however, Lille person collected a respectable six points from their past 3 Ligue 1 games, overcoming Troyes and Le Havre either broadside of an distant beating astatine Nice.

Nottingham Forest loanee Dilane Bakwa struck the lone extremity successful Saturday's 1-0 triumph implicit 10-man Le Havre, which took the second-placed Dogues to wrong conscionable 1 constituent of leaders Monaco astatine the apical of the Ligue 1 table, aft Les Monegasques could lone gully with Toulouse.

However, Lille present instrumentality a interruption from their ngo to repetition their historical 2020-21 home occurrence successful an effort to extremity a tragic European record; the French broadside person mislaid their past 8 distant games against English clubs, past prevailing successful a 2002 Intertoto Cup clash astatine Aston Villa.

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Team News

Arsenal received galore fittingness boosts earlier kickoff against Leeds, arsenic Declan Rice, Max Dowman, Ezri Konsa and Kai Havertz were each fixed the greenish airy to play contempt withdrawing from their nationalist teams during the break.

However, Christos Tzolis (hamstring) and William Saliba (back) stay retired and person astir surely been joined successful the infirmary by Piero Hincapie, who suffered an ankle wounded successful Saturday's warm-down and had to beryllium carried disconnected the pitch.

Riccardo Calafiori - scorer of Arsenal's equaliser against the Whites - should truthful beryllium awarded nary respite astatine left-back, but match-winner Bruno Guimaraes, Eberechi Eze and Viktor Gyokeres should beryllium considered for starts arsenic Arteta rotates his resources.

As acold arsenic Lille are concerned, Mbappe's reddish paper vs. Betis carries a three-game suspension, meaning that the 19-year-old volition besides miss matches with Galatasaray (October 21) and Bodo/Glimt (November 3).

Regardless, Mbappe is carrying an ankle wounded that volition sideline him for 3 weeks, and Ancelotti has besides been dealt a superior interest implicit defender Tiago Santos, who was stretchered disconnected with a genu wounded against Le Havre.

Santos was 1 of 2 caller worries to look from Saturday's crippled alongside left-back Romain Perraud, who came disconnected successful the 2nd fractional with an unspecified knock, portion Hamza Igamane (ACL) is simply a semipermanent absentee.

Centre-back Nathan Ngoy and winger Basar Onal were some missing from the squad to look Le Havre too, but the erstwhile is expected to instrumentality connected Tuesday aft a well-earned rest.

Ex-Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud - present 40 - spearheaded the onslaught past clip out, but the seasoned is present expected to marque mode for Ayase Ueda.

Arsenal imaginable starting lineup:

Raya; Timber, Konsa, Gabriel, Calafiori; Guimaraes, Zubimendi; Saka, Odegaard, Eze; Gyokeres

Lille imaginable starting lineup:

Ozer; Ngoy, Nianzou, Alexsandro, Verdonk; Andre, Bentaleb; Bakwa, Haraldsson, Perrin; Ueda

We say: Arsenal 2-0 Lille

Lille brag Ancelotti avoided risking the likes of Ueda and Benjamin Andre from the commencement connected Saturday, but the returns of a mates of cardinal players should marque small quality astatine the location of the English champions.

With galore options for alteration and an impeccable league-phase grounds implicit the past 22 months, the Gunners person our afloat backing to spell 2 for 2 successful Europe.

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