{"id":661808,"date":"2025-11-29T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=661808"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:52:07","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-chelsea-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/11\/29\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-chelsea-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Chelsea for November 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal\u2019s 2025\/26 Premier League season has been impressive thus far, sitting six points clear of Chelsea in the Premier League, while remaining unbeaten in the Champions League, and reaching the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup. Next up for the Gunners<\/a> is a trip to West London to face second-place Chelsea<\/a>. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for the London Derby.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Chelsea<\/h2>\n

How Arsenal Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n

On Sunday, November 23, Arsenal destroyed Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 at the Emirates with an Eberechi Eze hat-trick, helping the Gunners restore their six-point cushion over second-place Chelsea. They followed that up with a win over Bayern Munich.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In both recent wins, the Gunners lined up in their familiar 4-3-3 formation. Against Spurs, David Raya started in goal, while Jurrien Timber, Piero Hincapie, William Saliba, and Riccardo Calafiori formed the defence.<\/p>\n

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In midfield, it was Eze, Martin Zubimendi, and Declan Rice dominating for Arteta\u2019s team. Out wide, Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard supported Mikel Merino in the central striking role. In the Champions League against Bayern Munich, Mikel Arteta made two changes, with Cristhian Mosquera and Myles Lewis-Skelly starting in defence.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n
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In the pre-match press conference<\/a>, Arteta discussed the possible return of Gabriel Jesus, Viktor Gyokeres and Kai Havertz, as well as the fitness of Leandro Trossard:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s another test today, we have to see how he\u2019s feeling. It doesn\u2019t look much, so we still have a few hours and we\u2019ll have to see,\u201d said Arteta regarding the fitness of Trossard. When asked if the Belgian would be available, the Arsenal boss said: \u201cThere\u2019s a potential chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Discussing a behind-closed-doors friendly: \u201cIt did happen. Gabi [Jesus] participated, and Ethan [Nwaneri] as well, because he wanted some minutes. We took the opportunity; they wanted a bit of exposure to competition, and providing that was very positive,\u201d said Arteta.<\/p>\n

When asked about Viktor Gyokeres\u2019 and Kai Havertz\u2019s availability, the Arsenal boss said: \u201cWe have another day tomorrow, so let\u2019s see how everybody is tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n
GK: Raya<\/div>\n
LB: Calafiori<\/div>\n
CB: Saliba<\/div>\n
CB: Hincapie<\/div>\n
RB: Timber<\/div>\n
CM: Eze<\/div>\n
CM: Rice<\/div>\n
CM: Zubimendi<\/div>\n
LW: Madueke<\/div>\n
ST: Merino<\/div>\n
RW: Saka<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Arsenal\u2019s 2025\/26 Premier League season has been impressive thus far, sitting six points clear of Chelsea in the Premier League, while remaining unbeaten in the Champions League, and reaching the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup. Next up for the Gunners is a trip to West London to face second-place Chelsea. Here is our Arsenal predicted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":653818,"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":[3,8,11,1831],"tags":[9689,46],"class_list":["post-661808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-chelsea","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-predicted-lineup","tag-chelsea"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661808","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=661808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661815,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661808\/revisions\/661815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}