{"id":662158,"date":"2025-12-09T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=662158"},"modified":"2025-12-13T03:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:56:54","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-team-news-vs-club-brugge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/09\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-team-news-vs-club-brugge\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Club Brugge for December 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal\u2019s impressive season has hit its first difficult spell, with a draw against Chelsea and a defeat away at Aston Villa. The Gunners will be eager to bounce back to winning ways with their Champions League<\/a> tie away at Brugge.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta\u2019s<\/a> team are currently top of the Champions League table, with a 100% record after five games, including an impressive 3-1 victory over Bayern Munich. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for this Champions League clash.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Club Brugge<\/b><\/h2>\n

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

The Gunners were looking relentless following their early-season defeat to Liverpool. Arteta\u2019s team came up against a resolute Chelsea recently, with the 10-man Blues fully deserving of a share of the spoils.<\/p>\n

Arsenal lined up in their familiar 4-3-3 formation against Aston Villa, with David Raya in goal, while Ben White, Jurrien Timber, Piero Hincapie, and Riccardo Calafiori formed the defence.<\/p>\n

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In midfield, Arteta selected Martin Odegaard, Martin Zubimendi, and Declan Rice. Out wide, Eberechi Eze and Bukayo Saka supported the in-form Mikel Merino in the central striking role.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

In the pre-match press conference<\/a>, Arteta addressed the availability of Declan Rice, William Saliba, and Leandro Trossard:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo, so Declan was ill. He was quite sick after the game already and he hasn’t travelled. William is out.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeo too, he picked up another knock where he had the issue, I don’t expect it for long but he’s out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following an injury to Max Dowman, Arteta has revealed he has swapped Dowman for the returning Gabriel Jesus in his Champions League squad:<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, so first of all, with Max, unfortunately, he picked up an injury last weekend, and he had to come off, so we did some scans, and he is going to be out for weeks. And then we have the situation of Gabi, which we are expecting to be training with us by the end of December, but Gabi has been pushing every single day, and he kept telling everybody I’m going to be earlier, earlier, earlier and he has done it. So thanks to his work and all the work that the medical staff have done with him throughout these months and we had the possibility to make a swap there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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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: Merino<\/div>\n
CM: Zubimendi<\/div>\n
CM: Odegaard<\/div>\n
LW: Martinelli<\/div>\n
ST: Gyokeres<\/div>\n
RW: Madueke<\/div>\n

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Arsenal\u2019s impressive season has hit its first difficult spell, with a draw against Chelsea and a defeat away at Aston Villa. The Gunners will be eager to bounce back to winning ways with their Champions League tie away at Brugge. Mikel Arteta\u2019s team are currently top of the Champions League table, with a 100% record […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":652054,"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":[378,8,1831],"tags":[9689,267],"class_list":["post-662158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","category-arsenal","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-predicted-lineup","tag-club-brugge"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662158","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=662158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662313,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662158\/revisions\/662313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}