Football Prediction
While a chunk of teams will be taking a rest after Cup action, Arsenal will be hosting Crystal Palace in one of the two Premier League games on Saturday.
In their last outing, Arsenal took the lead after just five minutes away at Fulham but Bukayo Saka’s goal proved to be a false dawn for the title challengers. Fulham equalised just shy of the half-hour mark and scored what turned out to be the winning goal in the fifty-ninth minute, making it three league games without a win for Mikel Arteta’s side.
For Palace, they fell behind at home to Brentford last time out but recovered well to win the game with relative ease. Michael Olise equalised for the Eagles in the fourteenth minute and a goal from Eberechi Eze put Palace 2-1 up before the interval. Olise was on hand to score the only goal of the second half shortly before the hour mark to wrap up all three points for Roy Hodgson’s men.
H2H / Stats
Recent Meetings;
21/8/23: Crystal Palace 0-1 Arsenal
19/3/23: Arsenal 4-1 Crystal Palace
5/8/22: Crystal Palace 0-2 Arsenal
4/4/22: Crystal Palace 3-0 Arsenal
18/10/21: Arsenal 2-2 Crystal Palace
Team News
Arsenal will still be without Jurrien Timber, Fabio Vieira, Thomas Partey, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus while Mohamed Elneny and Takehiro Tomiyasu are both away on international duty.
Palace will be without Cheick Doucoure, Jesurun Rak-Sakyi, Rob Holding, Sam Johnstone, Joel Ward and Michael Olise for the trip to the Emirates Stadium due to injury, while Jordan Ayew is representing Ghana at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Probable Line-Up
Arsenal XI: Raya (GK), Gabriel, White, Kiwior, Saliba, Ødegaard, Rice, Havertz, Nketiah, Saka, Martinelli
Crystal Palace XI: Henderson (GK), Clyne, Andersen, Guéhi, Mitchell, Richards, Lerma, Eze, Édouard, Schlupp, Mateta
Verdict
Arsenal haven’t scored more than two goals in any of their last six matches in all competitions and are winless in three but their record against Palace is an impressive one. This is a match that Mikel Arteta would want to use to narrow the gap between them and the leading teams.
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