Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Bournemouth for Saturday Evening Premier League Fixture

Here is our predicted Arsenal lineup for the Gunners’ Premier League fixture against Bournemouth on Saturday, October 19.

Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Bournemouth in Premier League

How Arsenal Have Lined up Recently

Mikel Arteta picked identical lineups for home wins over Leicester City and Paris Saint-Germain, before injuries forced him to tinker when Southampton visited North London last time out.

Nevertheless, his team is generally very settled, although there are question marks over the availability of numerous key figures, and issues we’ll address shortly.

Arsenal Recent Form and Tactics

Will Arsenal continue their unbeaten start to the season across all competitions?

The Gunners come into this one following four successive home wins, ousting Bolton from the EFL Cup, seeing off PSG in the Champions League, while also collecting three points against Leicester and Southampton.

However, those two victories against newly-promoted opposition were significantly harder to come by than all Gooners would’ve hoped, requiring two stoppage time goals to down the Foxes, before falling behind against the Saints, ultimately prevailing 4-2 and 3-1 respectively.

This, though, acts as a constant reminder to never take any Premier League opposition lightly.

Nevertheless, this is unlikely to be an issue during the forthcoming fixtures because, between now and the next international break, the Gunners face Liverpool (H), Newcastle (A), and then to Chelsea (A) in the Premier League, with the small matter of a trip to San Siro to take on reigning Scudetto winner Inter thrown in for good measure.

Given this extremely challenging set of fixtures right around the corner, Arsenal simply cannot afford to slip up in Dorset on Saturday evening.

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Arsenal Injuries to Consider

As many as ten first-team outfield players are either doubtful or ruled out of this trip to the South Coast for certain, providing Arteta with a selection headache.

First and foremost, club captain Martin Ødegaard is still a few weeks away, Kieran Tierney is sidelined long-term, while reports suggest Takehiro Tomiyasu has suffered a set-back, after make his first appearance of the season during a brief cameo against Southampton.

At right-back, neither Jurriën Timber nor Benjamin White were available a fortnight ago, the former didn’t go away with the Netherlands as a result, and Arteta was typically ambiguous in his press conference if either will be fit here. He said both, as well as Oleksandr Zinchenko, are “quite close”.

Thomas Partey, who was forced to fill-in at right-back in the absence of Timber and White, sat out Ghana’s AFCON qualifiers due to illness, but is “fine” according to Arteta.

Likewise, Kai Havertz also missed Germany’s Nations League fixtures, but is expected to be available.

Lastly, we’ve saved the big two for the end.

Bukayo Saka hobbled off during England’s defeat to Greece at Wembley last Thursday, with Lee Carsley saying it wasn’t a big issue, while Arteta said “we are hopeful”, which suggests Saka will start.

Meanwhile, Gabriel Martinelli picked up a calf injury during Brazil’s World Cup qualifying win in Chile last Thursday, thereby sitting out Tuesday’s hammering of Peru in Brasília, with Arteta suggesting it could be a “risk” to use him in this game.

Thankfully, David Raya came through Spain’s two game unscathed, keeping a clean sheet in both, because deputy Norberto Neto is ineligible to face his parent club.