The largest take a look at of Arne Slot’s reign arrives on Sunday afternoon as Liverpool journey to Arsenal in a mouth-watering Premier League conflict.
Either side want to dethrone Manchester Metropolis come the tip of the Premier League season and the result of this weekend’s encounter may have a serious impression on the early phases of the title race. Liverpool are already 4 factors forward of Arsenal after eight matches and may lengthen that to seven with victory on the Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners might be desperate to bounce again from final weekend’s shock defeat to Bournemouth however must do with out some key gamers. William Saliba is suspended, Martin Odegaard is sidelined and there might be late health exams for Bukayo Saka and Riccardo Calafiori.
Liverpool’s midweek victory over RB Leipzig within the Champions League means they’ve gained ten of their 11 matches below Slot. Seven of these have come within the Premier League, with final weekend’s 2-1 victory over Chelsea the most important of the brand new period up to now.
Right here is 90min’s information to a blockbuster conflict in north London.
Arsenal vs Liverpool H2H Outcomes (Final 5 Video games)
Present type (all competitions)
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Arsenal |
Liverpool |
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Arsenal 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk – 22/10/24 |
RB Leipzig 0-1 Liverpool – 23/10/24 |
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Bournemouth 2-0 Arsenal – 19/10/24 |
Liverpool 2-1 Chelsea – 20/10/24 |
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Arsenal 3-1 Southampton – 05/10/24 |
Crystal Palace 0-1 Liverpool – 05/10/24 |
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Arsenal 2-0 PSG – 01/10/24 |
Liverpool 2-0 Bologna – 02/10/24 |
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Arsenal 4-2 Leicester – 28/09/24 |
Wolves 1-2 Liverpool – 28/09/24 |
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Nation |
TV channel/dwell stream |
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United Kingdom |
Sky Sports activities Important Occasion, Sky Sports activities Premier League, Sky Extremely HD, Sky GO, Sky GO Additional, NOW TV |
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United States |
Peacock |
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Canada |
fuboTV, Fubo Sports activities Community Canada |
Arsenal have various damage issues forward of Sunday’s conflict, with influential defender Saliba additionally lacking by suspension following his straight pink card in opposition to Bournemouth on the Vitality Stadium.
Martin Odegaard, Kieran Tierney and Takehiro Tomiyasu are assured absentees, whereas Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta is “very, very unsure” on the provision of Saka, Calafiori and Jurrien Timber.
Saka has been lacking because the worldwide break with a hamstring drawback, whereas Timber was injured within the Champions League victory over Paris Saint-Germain at first of October. Calafiori picked up a knee situation midweek in opposition to Shakhtar Donetsk and will miss out.
Arsenal predicted lineup vs Liverpool (4-3-3): Raya; White, Gabriel, Kiwior, Zinchenko; Partey, Rice, Trossard; Saka, Havertz, Martinelli.
Liverpool have a handful of absentees forward of Sunday, though they did keep away from sustaining any recent accidents throughout the victory over Leipzig on Wednesday night.
Alisson remains to be sidelined with a hamstring damage and Caoimhin Kelleher, who sparkled midweek, will retain his beginning berth. Conor Bradley can also be prone to miss out within the backline after selecting up a knock over the October worldwide break.
Harvey Elliott has been lacking because the September internationals and will not return till mid-November, whereas Federico Chiesa continues to wrestle with health setbacks at first of his Liverpool profession.
Slot confirmed that Diogo Jota will miss out on the weekend after being withdrawn earlier than half-time in opposition to Chelsea final weekend. Darwin Nunez, who scored and impressed in Leipzig, will lead the road.
Liverpool predicted lineup vs Arsenal (4-2-3-1): Kelleher; Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Mac Allister, Gravenberch; Salah, Jones, Diaz; Nunez.
This needs to be a belter. Either side have been weakened by accidents however nonetheless boast a daft quantity of high quality inside their beginning XIs and on their benches. They’ve each began the season positively and Sunday might be a possibility to land a primary psychological blow within the title race.
The absence of some key gamers in each lineups does add a component of uncertainty to this one and Slot’s extra measured method means it is probably not fairly the identical energetic thriller seen extra repeatedly below Jurgen Klopp.
With each groups determined to not lose this one, they could accept a invaluable level.
