{"id":659774,"date":"2025-09-21T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=659774"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:35:58","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-manchester-city-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/21\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-manchester-city-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Manchester City for September 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
Arsenal return to Premier League action on Sunday, September 21 at 16:30 BST as they face Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners have three wins out of four games so far, while the Citizens have won two and lost two. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for this Super Sunday clash.<\/div>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Manchester City<\/h2>\n
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How Arsenal Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n
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Arteta has been consistent with his formation so far this season, lining his team up in a flexible 4-3-3 formation. Against Athletic Club in the Champions League, Mikel Arteta\u2019s team lined up with David Raya in goal, with Jurrien Timber and Riccardo Calafiori starting at full back. At centre back, it was Cristhian Mosquera and Gabriel Magalhaes, with William Saliba not quite ready following his ankle injury against Liverpool before the international break.<\/p>\n

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In midfield, it was Mikel Merino, Martin Zubimendi, and Declan Rice. In the wide areas, it was Noni Madueke and Eberechi Eze, with Viktor Gyokeres starting in attack.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Injuries and Absentees to Consider<\/h3>\n
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In the pre-match press conference<\/a>, Arteta gave updates on the availability of Ben White, Bukayo Saka, and Martin Odegaard: \u201cIf there is a chance, it will be after tomorrow’s session because they haven’t done anything yet, so we’ll have more information tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the head injuries sustained by Mikel Merino and Gyokeres, and if they will be fit for Manchester City: \u201cYes, they’ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

On if William Saliba could make the starting lineup, Arteta said: \u201cLet’s see, obviously he’s been carrying an injury, he’s done really well to be available for the last match and he\u2019s really pushing it, so we will decide tomorrow who is the best to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Predicted Lineup vs Athletic Club<\/h3>\n
GK: David Raya<\/div>\n
LB: Riccardo Calafiori<\/div>\n
CB: William Saliba<\/div>\n
CB: Gabriel Magalhaes<\/div>\n
RB: Jurrien Timber<\/div>\n
CM: Martin Zubimendi<\/div>\n
CM: Declan Rice<\/div>\n
CM: Mikel Merino<\/div>\n
LW: Gabriel Martinelli<\/div>\n
ST: Viktor Gyokeres<\/div>\n
RW: Noni Madueke<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal return to Premier League action on Sunday, September 21 at 16:30 BST as they face Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners have three wins out of four games so far, while the Citizens have won two and lost two. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for this Super Sunday clash. Arsenal Predicted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":648852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[3,8,17,1831],"tags":[9689,4372,31697],"class_list":["post-659774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-manchester-city","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-predicted-lineup","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-viktor-gyokeres"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659774","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=659774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659775,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659774\/revisions\/659775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}