Ian Wright and Gary Neville make predictions for Chelsea vs Arsenal clash

Ian Wright has backed Arsenal to travel distant from Chelsea with a 2-1 victory, with Mikel Arteta’s men ‘needing a win’ aft an immensely disappointing tally of results.

The Gunners beryllium 5th heading into the weekend’s Premier League enactment and could way top-of-the-table Liverpool by 10 points travel kick-off astatine Stamford Bridge.

Having dropped points successful each of their past 3 top-flight games, an out-of-sorts Arsenal are successful hopeless request of a morale-boosting show successful westbound London, though look a rejuvenated Chelsea with Enzo Maresca astatine the helm.

However, the visitors could beryllium boosted by the instrumentality of their skipper Martin Odegaard, who came connected arsenic a precocious substitute successful the side’s Champions League decision astatine Inter Milan connected Wednesday night.

Arteta volition apt beryllium without defenders Riccardo Calafiori and Takehiro Tomiyasu successful for the derby and England midfielder Declan Rice remains a uncertainty aft missing Arsenal’s travel to Milan done injury.

‘We request to win, we request to win. We’re not scoring astatine the minute.’ ex-Arsenal striker Wright said portion previewing the contention connected the latest occurrence of The Overlap.

‘We’re usually beauteous bully astatine Chelsea. We usually bash good but this Chelsea squad has got a antithetic swagger. I’m going to spell 2-1 to Arsenal.’

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville, meanwhile, believes the points volition beryllium shared successful a intimately contested 1-1 draw.

‘I’m doing that game, I can’t person a gully again! Probably volition beryllium a gully though, won’t it?’ Neville said.

‘I deliberation 1-1, we’ll spell with 1-1.’

Facing the media aft Arsenal’s decision to Inter Milan, a bullish Arteta insisted his broadside were much than susceptible of bushed Chelsea if they replicated the aforesaid show astatine Stamford Bridge.

‘If we play the mode we played against Inter past we person a large accidental to triumph against Chelsea,’ the Arsenal caput manager told reporters astatine his post-match property conference.

‘That’s the mode we person to go. I told them that I’m arrogant of them, I haven’t seen them play successful Europe successful the mode that we played today.

‘We are precise disappointed due to the fact that we didn’t get what we wanted retired of the game, that’s for sure.’

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