{"id":658261,"date":"2025-08-16T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=658261"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:32:24","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/16\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Manchester United for August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"
Arsenal take on their old rivals Manchester United on August 17 at Old Trafford. The Gunners will be eager to improve on last season\u2019s efforts, where they finished a distant second behind Liverpool, while Manchester United will be determined to move on from last season\u2019s disastrous 15th-place finish. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup vs Man United.<\/div>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Manchester United<\/h2>\n

How Arsenal Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n
During pre-season, Mikel Arteta has appeared to move fluidly between 4\u20113\u20113, 4-4-2, and 4-3-2-1. Their final pre-season game against Athletic Club saw David Raya start in goal, with Jurri\u00ebn Timber and Riccardo Calafiori starting in the full-back positions. There were no surprises at centre back, with William Saliba and Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es renewing their partnership from last season.<\/div>\n
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Read More<\/strong>: Mikel Arteta Praises \u2018Incredible\u2019 New Signing\u2019s Performance Ahead of Season Opener<\/a><\/div>\n
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In Midfield, Martin Zubimendi and Declan Rice started as deep-lying midfielders, giving Martin \u00d8degaard the freedom to cause havoc further forward. In the wide areas, we saw Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli, with Viktor Gy\u00f6keres starting in attack and scoring.<\/div>\n

Arsenal Injuries and Absentees to Consider<\/h3>\n
Arteta spoke at the pre-match press conference<\/a> and discussed the availability of certain players, including Leandro Trossard: \u201cI think he’s much better. I think he will be able to train again tomorrow, and if that’s the case, he will be fit.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Read More<\/strong>: Mikel Arteta Provides Update on Availability of Key Arsenal Players Including Viktor Gyokeres<\/a><\/div>\n
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The Gunners boss also discussed Zubimendi and Gy\u00f6keres<\/a>: \u201c[Viktor\u2019s] getting better and better every day,\u201d Arteta said. \u201cHe’s normally a really fit player. It’s true that he hasn’t trained so much with us. He had those two moments in games when he’s participated and the feeling was very good. So let’s see what we do on Sunday.<\/div>\n
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\u201c[On Zubi], he had a great integration. As everybody can see this immediately, a very big impact on the team. I’m really happy and he will be fit.\u201d<\/div>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Manchester United<\/h3>\n
GK: David Raya<\/div>\n
LB: Riccardo Calafiori<\/div>\n
CB: William Saliba<\/div>\n
CB: Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es<\/div>\n
RB: Jurri\u00ebn Timber<\/div>\n
CM: Martin Zubimendi<\/div>\n
CM: Declan Rice<\/div>\n
AM: Martin \u00d8degaard<\/div>\n
LW: Gabriel Martinelli<\/div>\n
ST: Kai Havertz<\/div>\n
RW: Bukayo Saka<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal take on their old rivals Manchester United on August 17 at Old Trafford. The Gunners will be eager to improve on last season\u2019s efforts, where they finished a distant second behind Liverpool, while Manchester United will be determined to move on from last season\u2019s disastrous 15th-place finish. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup vs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":647159,"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":[3,8,1831],"tags":[32320,9789,4372,31697],"class_list":["post-658261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-transfer-rumours","tag-martin-zubimendi","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-viktor-gyokeres"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658261","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658264,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658261\/revisions\/658264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}