{"id":647072,"date":"2024-10-05T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=647072"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:46:57","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/05\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Southampton for Saturday Premier League Fixture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We assess the Arsenal predicted lineup vs Southampton for Saturday&#8217;s Premier League fixture in North London.<\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Southampton in Premier League<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How Arsenal Have Lined up Recently<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Mikel Arteta has named an unchanged line-up for both of Arsenal&#8217;s last two games, home wins over Leicester and Paris Saint-Germain, and would probably like to do the same again, barring any injuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/04\/fpl-forwards-gameweek-seven\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">FPL Tips: Three Forwards Who Could Score Big in Gameweek Seven<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This features Jurri\u00ebn Timber at right-back and Riccardo Calafiori on the opposite side, while in attack the free-scoring Kai Havertz and Leandro Trossard are dovetailing nicely as a centre-forward partnership.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/04\/three-defenders-fpl-gameweek-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">FPL Tips: Three Defenders to Transfer in for Gameweek 7 Including \u2018Very Dangerous\u2019 Player<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arsenal Recent Form and Tactics<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Arsenal remain unbeaten this season, currently just one point below Premier League leaders Liverpool, following last weekend&#8217;s dramatic 4-2 victory over Leicester, in which they snatched victory by scoring not once but twice in injury time.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Wednesday night, the Gunners collected their first win of this new Champions League campaign by defeating Paris Saint-Germain 2-0, with Havertz heading home the opener, before a wide Bukayo Saka free-kick somehow nestled in the far corner untouched.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/03\/three-goalkeepers-fpl-gameweek-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">FPL Tips: Three Goalkeepers to Transfer in for Gameweek 7 Including \u2018Brilliant\u2019 Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The opener saw Havertz become only the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HarveyDownes92\/status\/1841203678243606972\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fourth<\/a> player in Arsenal history to net in each of the club&#8217;s first five home matches to start a campaign, after Jimmy Brain (1927), Cliff Bastin (1934) and Doug Lishman (1954).<\/p>\n<p>Thus, in summary, Arteta&#8217;s team are in a good place right now, and should easily swat the struggling Southampton aside.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/03\/jarrad-branthwaite-everton-defence\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Jarrad Branthwaite Returns From Injury: Why He Will Turn Around the Everton Defence<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arsenal Injuries to Consider<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/18\/arsenal-martin-odegaard-injury-update\/\" target=\"_self\">Martin \u00d8degaard<\/a>, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Kieran Tierney are all sidelined long-term, while Benjamin White is unlikely to feature, having not been in the matchday squad for any of the last three games.<\/p>\n<p>This though could lead to a dilemma at right-back, because Timber was hooked at half time on Wednesday, a decision that Arteta himself described as precautionary. If neither Timber nor White are available, there&#8217;s no obvious right-back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/04\/chelsea-josh-acheampong-newcastle-united-links-clarified\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Top\u2019 Chelsea Youngster Considered Important Part Of Enzo Maresca\u2019s Protect Despite Transfer Links<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In better news, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/27\/arsenal-mikel-merino-injury-return-update\/\" target=\"_self\">Mikel Merino<\/a> came off the bench for his eagerly-anticipated debut against PSG, so he&#8217;ll be hoping for more minutes here.<\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Southampton<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>GK: David Raya.<\/p>\n<p>RB: Jurri\u00ebn Timber.<\/p>\n<p>CB: William Saliba.<\/p>\n<p>CB: Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es.<\/p>\n<p>LB: Riccardo Calafiori.<\/p>\n<p>CM: Thomas Partey.<\/p>\n<p>CM: Declan Rice.<\/p>\n<p>CAM: Kai Havertz.<\/p>\n<p>RW: Bukayo Saka.<\/p>\n<p>LW: Gabriel Martinelli.<\/p>\n<p>ST: Leandro Trossard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We assess the Arsenal predicted lineup vs Southampton for Saturday&#8217;s Premier League fixture in North London. Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Southampton in Premier League How Arsenal Have Lined up Recently Mikel Arteta has named an unchanged line-up for both of Arsenal&#8217;s last two games, home wins over Leicester and Paris Saint-Germain, and would probably like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5192,"featured_media":647081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,1831],"tags":[32739,32738],"class_list":["post-647072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-fixtures"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664024,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647072\/revisions\/664024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}