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The Gunners host French Ligue 1 Olympique Lyonnais at the Emirates Stadium in the final pre-season match before the 2024/25 Premier League season starts. The kick-off is at 14:00. The winners will receive The Emirates Cup.
Today’s team news will be published below once we have it, so refresh the page at 13:00 to see the line-ups.
Arsenal XI: Raya, White, Gabriel, Saliba, Zinchenko, Rice, Partey, Odegaard, Saka, Havertz, Martinelli.
Substitutes: Ramsdale, Setford, Kiwior, Calafiori, Heaven, Nichols, Jorginho, Lewis-Skelly, Nelson, Nwaneri, Trossard, Jesus, Nketiah.
Olympique Lyonnais XI: Perri, Caqueret, Tolisso, Abner, Benrahma, Niakhate, Mata, Matic, Caleta-Car, Mikautadze, Maitland-Niles.
Substitutes: Lopes, Tagliafico, Balde, Orban, Lima Silva, Kumbedi, Sarr, Mangala, Bengui, Diawara, Nuamah.
Pre-season so far:
Arsenal results: Arsenal 1-1 Bournemouth, Arsenal 2-1 Manchester United, Arsenal 1-2 Liverpool and Arsenal 4-1 Bayer Leverkusen.
Olympique Lyonnais: WSG Tirol 2-3 Lyon, St. Pauli 1-0 Lyon, Lyon 0-0 Torino and Union Berlin 0-4 Lyon.
Pre-match views from the forum:
Riou: “Really like that team, noting to lie.
As good as he can be I don’t really trust Jesus anymore as a full starter, while Leo is also quality I don’t like him and Havertz in the same team (feel it’s too slow)
That attack has a bit of everything and a proper midfield to supplement it too, Rice on the left very much suits Zinchenko too and I feel Martinelli has become quite underrated now (back him to step up again!)
Wouldn’t mind that team starting the first Prem game.”
MutableEarth: “Might see Lewis-Skelly in midfield today! Can’t wait.
I can see this game being the trial for Wolves (with the ****** in tow sadly) so will be curious to see how it comes together.
2nd half I predict we’ll finish with a back 4 of
Nichols-Kiwior-Heaven-Calafiori.
3 lefties and a right footer. Rest of the team will probably be:
Nwaneri-Jorginho-Lewis Skelly.
Jesus-Nketiah-Trossard/Nelson (probably Trossard).”
