Arsenal vs Southampton: Prediction, kick-off time, TV, live stream, team news, h2h results, odds

The goalkeeper near the nine implicit the summertime successful a woody worthy up to £25million, a twelvemonth aft signing a caller declaration and past astir instantly losing his starting athletics to David Raya.

It volition beryllium different daunting task for Ramsdale and his Saints side, who stay winless aft six games, arsenic the Gunners look to support gait with Premier League table-toppers Liverpool, who look Crystal Palace successful the earlier kick-off.

The past clip these 2 teams met successful the league, they shared a 1-1 gully and a 3-3 draw, arsenic the Gunners fell abbreviated successful the rubric race. Mikel Arteta volition cognize further dropped points volition beryllium costly erstwhile again.

Arsenal vs Southampton is scheduled for a 3pm BST kick-off connected Saturday October 5, 2024.

The lucifer volition instrumentality spot astatine Emirates Stadium.

TV channel: In the UK, the crippled volition not beryllium televised unrecorded arsenic it lands during the 3pm Saturday blackout.

Free highlights: The Sky Sports app and YouTube transmission volition amusement highlights from 5.15pm with Match of the Day broadcasting connected BBC One astatine 10.30pm BST.

Both Ben White and Jurrien Timber are doubts up of the weekend. White missed the wins implicit Leicester and PSG wholly portion Timber was replaced astatine half-time against the French giants.

In affirmative news, Mikel Merino returned from wounded against PSG to marque his long-awaited debut, and is successful teh framework to get his archetypal Premier League minutes nether his loop against Saints. Martin Odegaard, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Kieran Tierney are longer-term absentees.

It's arsenic lawsuit of arsenic you were for Southampton, with Gavin Bazunu, Kamaldeen Sulemana, Jack Stephens and William Smallbone nary person to returns. As mentioned, Aaron Ramsdale volition beryllium facing his erstwhile nine for the archetypal time.

Mikel Arteta volition beryllium good alert of the damaging results against Southampton successful the erstwhile 2 times these 2 teams met, but this Saints broadside bash not look to airs the aforesaid menace arsenic the squad of 2 seasons agone contempt being relegated.

More importantly, this Arsenal squad besides looks acold stronger than the squad battling for the rubric successful April 2023, truthful should person small problems signaling different triumph this weekend.

The wobble against Leicester volition beryllium a concern, but the instrumentality of Mikel Merino to fittingness is simply a boost successful the midfield.

Odds via Betfair (subject to change).