Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Crystal Palace vs Arsenal at Selhurst Park in a 16:00 GMT kick-off on May 24 in the Premier League. The Gunners have won the Premier League title, their first one in 22 years. They have been the most consistent team and fully deserve it. Palace are safe and preparing for the Conference League final, while the Gunners are readying for their Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain.
Crystal Palace vs Arsenal, Team News and Confirmed Lineups
Crystal Palace Team News
Oliver Glasner should be able to call upon Maxence Lacroix and Chadi Riad, despite both being withdrawn against Brentford. Palace will be without Chris Richards, Cheick Doucoure and ex-Arsenal attacker Eddie Nketiah. Glasner will be able to call upon Borna Sosa, who returns after successfully recovering from a knock.
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Arsenal Team News
Discussing the reward for the team after winning the league:
“The thing is, now of course you want more, and we have the biggest one to play in Budapest in a few days. But it’s been extremely rewarding because we know what we’ve been through, and we know that we’re going to step by step, and when we haven’t reached, because sometimes somebody else is better, has better resources, has a better capacity to do that, to accept that and be humble then to say I’m not going to stop, but I’m going to improve, I’m going to reinvent myself.
“I think that’s going to be a theme here in this team, which is that if with this we don’t have enough, we need to think about other things that we have to do to make that a step, and we’ve been very creative and very stubborn in that process,” said Arteta in the pre-match press conference.
When asked about the availability of Mikel Merino and Jurrien Timber, Mikel Arteta said:
“Mikel is going to start to train with the group tomorrow, today he’s done a little bit, it was just a very light session obviously, and Jurrien let’s hope he can do the same in the next few days, but he’s still a little bit further behind than Mikel at the moment.”
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Crystal Palace Confirmed Lineup
Starting XI: Henderson, Muñoz, Clyne, Lerma, Riad, Cardines, Kamada, Hughes, Devenny, Sarr, Strand Larsen
Subs: Benitez, Mitchell, Lacroix, Canvot, Wharton, Pino, Johnson, Mateta, Guessand
Arsenal Confirmed Lineup
Starting XI: Arrizabalaga, Mosquera, Norgaard, Hincapie, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly, Zubimendi, Dowman, Madueke, Martinelli, Jesus
Subs: Setford, Gabriel, Saka, Odegaard, Eze, Gyokeres, Merino, Havertz, Rice
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