{"id":661953,"date":"2025-12-02T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=661953"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:49:37","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/02\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-brentford\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Brentford for December 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal have enjoyed an impressive first half of the 2025\/26 season. They currently sit five points clear in the Premier League, are unbeaten in the Champions League, and have reached the quarter-final of the Carabao Cup. Next up for Mikel Arteta\u2019s<\/a> team is Brentford<\/a> at the Emirates. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for the London Derby.<\/p>\n

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

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

Arsenal have walked through most opposition with relative ease this season, but last time out, they faced an in-form and resilient Chelsea. The point earned at Stamford Bridge left Arsenal five points clear of Manchester City.<\/p>\n

Against Chelsea, the Gunners lined up in their familiar 4-3-3 formation, with David Raya in goal, while Jurrien Timber, Piero Hincapie, Cristhian Mosquera and Riccardo Calafiori formed the defence.<\/p>\n

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In midfield, Arteta selected Eberechi Eze, Martin Zubimendi, and Declan Rice. Out wide, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli supported Mikel Merino in the central striking role.
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Arsenal Team News<\/h2>\n

In the pre-match press conference<\/a>, Arteta gave the latest on the availability of William Saliba:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a little niggle, so I think it\u2019s going to be a matter of days, so let\u2019s see if he\u2019s able to be there tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Discussing the availability of Leandro Trossard, Arteta said: \u201cMatter of days as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMatter of weeks; let\u2019s see how it evolves in the next few weeks. He\u2019s doing really well, he\u2019s doing stuff on the pitch, but I think he needs some time,\u201d said Arteta regarding the recovery of Kai Havertz.<\/p>\n

Asked about the latest on Gabriel Magalhaes: \u201cBig Gabi is doing very well as well, but that\u2019s weeks as well,\u201d said the Gunners boss.
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Arsenal Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n
GK: Raya<\/div>\n
LB: Calafiori<\/div>\n
CB: Mosquera<\/div>\n
CB: Hincapie<\/div>\n
RB: Timber<\/div>\n
CM: Eze<\/div>\n
CM: Rice<\/div>\n
CM: Odegaard<\/div>\n
LW: Madueke<\/div>\n
ST: Merino<\/div>\n
RW: Saka<\/div>\n

Featured Image Credit<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

IMAGO \/ PA Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal have enjoyed an impressive first half of the 2025\/26 season. They currently sit five points clear in the Premier League, are unbeaten in the Champions League, and have reached the quarter-final of the Carabao Cup. Next up for Mikel Arteta\u2019s team is Brentford at the Emirates. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"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":[3,8,8684,1831],"tags":[9689,1377],"class_list":["post-661953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-brentford","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-predicted-lineup","tag-brentford"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661953","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=661953"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661957,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661953\/revisions\/661957"}],"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=661953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}