{"id":652651,"date":"2025-03-12T03:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=652651"},"modified":"2025-03-11T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:00:45","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-psv-second-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/03\/12\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-psv-second-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs PSV in Champions League Last 16 Second Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After blasting PSV 7-1 in the first leg, Arsenal are all-but through to the quarter finals, making their home leg in the Champions League last-16 a mere formality. Here is our predicted Arsenal lineup.<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs PSV in Last-16 Second Leg<\/h2>\n<h3>How Arsenal Have Lined-up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>Arsenal were unchanged from their midweek fixture except for Myles Lewis-Skelly, with Riccardo Calafiori starting instead at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>David Raya failed to keep a clean sheet in goal, with his defence consisting of Jurrien Timber, William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhaes and Calafiori.<\/p>\n<p>In midfield, Thomas Partey started alongside Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Merino started another game up-front, flanked by Leandro Trossard and Ethan Nwaneri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/03\/10\/champions-league-round-of-16-predictions-lille-vs-borussia-dortmund\/\" target=\"_self\">UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Predictions Including Lille vs Borussia Dortmund<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n<p>Arsenal&#8217;s recent form in the Premier League is three wins, two draws and one loss in their last six matches.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bumper win against PSV, the Gunners could not muster the same threat against Manchester United, which was largely due to how the Red Devils shut up shop, using a low block to repel Arsenal&#8217;s later attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Having Martinelli back should help with the burden of goalscoring and give the team a focal point when going forward.<\/p>\n<p>But Arteta <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/every-word-artetas-post-man-utd-presser-1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> about the need for chances and creativity to be shared across the team. He said: \u00a0&#8220;That\u2019s the responsibility of all of us&#8230; that\u2019s fully the initiative that everybody has to take, especially when we defend and attack against so much density.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Injuries and Absentees to Consider: Martinelli and Saka Injury Updates<\/h3>\n<p>There are no new injuries, but there is a reassuring piece of news about Martinelli, who came on as a substitute against United in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the PSV second-leg, Arteta said: &#8220;Everybody finished the game against Man United with no issues, so I expect the same players to be available and Gabby for sure will be available as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the United match, Arteta had a few concerns about a few of the Gunners&#8217; injured stars. He said: &#8220;With Gabi [Martinelli] it was a bit different the kind of injury that he had and I think we talked about it last week that he was much closer than Bukayo [Saka]. After the international break, let\u2019s see where he is \u2013 his progress is really good, he\u2019s really willing, as you can imagine, so we are positive that in a few weeks, he\u2019ll hopefully be back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arteta revealed that he has been carefully managing Ben White&#8217;s minutes, with the player having some issues in building back playing time. He said: &#8220;I think he&#8217;s in a good position now to give him a start.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Jesus, Kai Havertz and Takehiro Tomiyasu are still on the way back from their respective injuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/03\/08\/manchester-united-jean-philippe-mateta-transfer-talks-begin\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Start Talks To Sign Premier League Striker With &#8216;Another Dimension&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs PSV<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">GK: David Raya<\/p>\n<p>RB: Jurrien Timber<\/p>\n<p>CB: William Saliba<\/p>\n<p>CB: Gabriel Magalhaes<\/p>\n<p>LB: Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/p>\n<p>CM: Thomas Partey<\/p>\n<p>CM: Declan Rice<\/p>\n<p>CM: Martin Odegaard<\/p>\n<p>RW: Gabriel Martinelli<\/p>\n<p>STR: Mikel Merino<\/p>\n<p>LW: Leandro Trossard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After blasting PSV 7-1 in the first leg, Arsenal are all-but through to the quarter finals, making their home leg in the Champions League last-16 a mere formality. Here is our predicted Arsenal lineup. Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs PSV in Last-16 Second Leg How Arsenal Have Lined-up Recently Arsenal were unchanged from their midweek fixture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":652655,"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":[3,8,378,1831],"tags":[9689,3927,86,3564],"class_list":["post-652651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-champions-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-predicted-lineup","tag-ben-white","tag-champions-league","tag-gabriel-martinelli"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652651","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\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652651"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652675,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652651\/revisions\/652675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}