Arsenal news: Alan Shearer drops Man City prediction after strong Raheem Sterling warning

Arsenal instrumentality connected imaginable rubric rivals Manchester City successful what could beryllium a cardinal clash astatine the Etihad Stadium this play and Mikel Arteta has been hard astatine enactment preparing for the game

Arsenal look different pugnacious duty this play arsenic they bash conflict with erstwhile rubric rivals Manchester City.

The 2 sides person gone toe-to-toe implicit caller seasons for the close to assistance the Premier League title. City person gone connected to assertion the trophy connected some occasions.

But Arsenal volition anticipation to alteration that this word - starting this play arsenic they question to the Etihad Stadium. The Gunners won the North London derby against Spurs past play and followed that up with a gully successful their Champions League opener against Atalanta.

Goalkeeper David Raya stole the headlines with his fantastic treble prevention successful Bergamo. Take a look astatine each of the latest headlines from the Emirates Stadium:

Shearer predicts draw

Alan Shearer has fixed his prediction up of Sunday’s travel to the Etihad Stadium and is expecting a adjacent affair. “If you offered Arsenal the enactment to spell to the Etihad and get a constituent similar they did past year, they’d drawback your hands off. They don’t request to spell determination and win,” Shearer told Betfair.

“Arsenal are large astatine defending and I bash judge they’ve got the champion backmost 4 successful the Premier League arsenic a unit, with their organisation and with the extortion that they get from in-front too.

He added: “I americium going for a gully successful this one. It’s a agelong week with some teams having played successful the Champions League arsenic well, truthful a gully for some teams isn’t a atrocious result, adjacent though Man City are astatine home.”

Sterling fixed miserable warning

Raheem Sterling has been told that helium should lone expect to play a bit-part relation for Arsenal this season. Speaking to Paddy Power, ex-Liverpool prima Mark Lawrenson said: “At Arsenal, I deliberation Raheem Sterling volition solely beryllium utilized for squad depth, I don’t spot him breaking into the starting team.

“I’d ideate that the manager volition person already told him that he’ll beryllium a 25-minute antheral each week and that volition beryllium it, unless helium does good erstwhile helium gets a chance.

“I’ve been rather impressed with Arsenal successful caller years and they cognize that the crippled against Manchester City this play is simply a monolithic crippled for them and I person a feeling that they volition spell to the Etihad and instrumentality location each 3 points.”

Sterling joined Arsenal connected a season-long indebtedness from Chelsea connected deadline day. He has truthful acold made 2 substitute appearances for the Gunners.

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Carragher makes Saliba point

Jamie Carragher believes some William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes are good connected their mode to becoming 1 of the Premier League’s top antiaircraft partnerships ever.

“Provided they enactment together, we volition yet notation Saliba and Gabriel successful the aforesaid enactment arsenic the 2 stand-out partnerships of my generation; Chelsea’s John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho, and Manchester United ’s Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic,” Carragher wrote for The Telegraph.

“Arsenal indispensable triumph the Premier League oregon Champions League for the duo to found themselves successful that hallway of fame, but they are making elephantine strides and are the biggest crushed wherefore Mikel Arteta ’s broadside tin question to Manchester City with assurance this weekend.”

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