Arsenal vs Man City: Confirmed team news, predicted lineups and injuries

Arsenal are sweating connected the fittingness of goalkeeper David Raya up of their Premier League showdown against Manchester City this afternoon.

The Gunners were without their no1 changeable stopper midweek against Girona with Mikel Arteta giving small distant erstwhile asked for an wounded update connected Friday afternoon.

The Arsenal brag was ‘uncertain’ whether Raya would retrieve from his unspecified sound successful clip for the sojourn of the defending champions.

Arteta was capable to invited backmost Martin Odegaard and Mikel Merino midweek aft the brace missed the triumph astatine Wolves past weekend.

Odegaard did not marque the travel aft being struck down by unwellness portion Merino picked up a tiny sound up of the weekend. Both trained alongside their teammates up of the travel to Spain and played the afloat 90 minutes successful the 2-1 triumph connected Wednesday night.

Myles Lewis-Skelly was the recipient of a controversial reddish paper against Wolves connected Saturday and was initially expected to miss retired connected Sunday’s clash arsenic portion of his three-match suspension. That reddish was overturned this week however aft Arsenal’s palmy entreaty with the teen successful enactment to support his spot successful the side.

Riccardo Calafiori nevertheless is besides successful contention to slot into that left-back role.

Elsewhere, Ben White is closing successful connected a instrumentality but has not resumed first-team grooming yet. Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus and Takehiro Tomiyasu stay sidelined.

After their wretched tally to extremity 2024, City person present won 4 of their past 5 successful the league.

Looking up to the travel to Arsenal, the City brag revealed Oscar Bobb is adjacent to making his instrumentality aft a lengthy layoff though the travel down southbound volition apt travel excessively soon for him.

Jeremy Doku volition miss the clash astatine the Emirates having missed his side’s past 3 games. Ruben Dias is besides sidelined having limped disconnected successful the decision to Paris Saint-Germain with City yet to disclose a timeline for his return.

Nathen Ake, constricted to conscionable 7 league starts this season, is besides absent but John Stones is disposable erstwhile again aft his caller injuries.

Abdukodir Khusanov endured a baptism of occurrence against Chelsea on Saturday but Omar Marmoush made a beardown lawsuit for keeping his spot successful the broadside with a promising debit against the Blues.

Predicted Arsenal XI to look Man City

Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Odegaard, Partey, Rice, Martinelli, Havertz, Trossard

Predicted Man City XI to look Chelsea

Ederson, Nunes, Stones, Akanji, Gvardiol, Silva, Kovacic, de Bruyne, Foden, Haaland, Marmoush

Where to ticker Arsenal vs Man City? Kick-off clip and TV channel

Arsenal vs Man City kicks disconnected astatine 4:30pm connected Sunday 2 February.

Live sum is disposable connected Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Main Event with a unrecorded watercourse disposable connected the Sky Go app and NOW TV.

You tin besides travel each the enactment connected Metro’s LIVE matchday blog.

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