{"id":662496,"date":"2025-12-20T05:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=662496"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:07:22","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-team-news-vs-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/20\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-team-news-vs-everton\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Everton for December 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal were in relentless form until a 2-1 defeat away to Aston Villa. Since that loss, the Gunners have bounced back to form, with wins against Club Brugge and Wolves. Mikel Arteta\u2019s team are two points clear at the top of the Premier League, with Manchester City and Villa in hot pursuit. Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for this Premier League trip to the Hill Dickinson Stadium to face Everton<\/a> in the 20:00 GMT kick-off.<\/p>\n

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

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

The Gunners were expected to win comfortably last time out, as they hosted Wolves at the Emirates Stadium. It turned out to be anything other than straightforward, with Arsenal needing two own goals to get the three points against the struggling Wolves team.<\/p>\n

In that game, Arsenal lined up in their normal 4-3-3 formation, with David Raya in goal, with Ben White, William Saliba, Piero Hincapie, and Jurrien Timber completing 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 flanked Viktor Gyokeres.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

In the pre-match press conference<\/a>, Arteta discussed Ben White\u2019s hamstring issue:<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, he\u2019s out. He\u2019s evolving well, it\u2019s not a major injury, but it will keep him out for a few games, I think. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be [a major injury] and Ben is a really fast healer as well, so there\u2019s hope that we\u2019re going to have him in the next few games.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s pushing hard, as he always does every time he\u2019s out, and he\u2019s evolving really well. He\u2019s doing pitch sessions, so he\u2019s not too far. We have to see in the next stages of that rehab, how he progresses, but we are quite positive about it,\u201d said the Gunners boss regarding the imminent return of Gabriel.<\/p>\n

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It had been noted that Zubimendi had not appeared in open training recently, and Arteta addressed that worry:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of management for a few players who played a lot of minutes later, so that\u2019s probably the reason why.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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Arsenal were in relentless form until a 2-1 defeat away to Aston Villa. Since that loss, the Gunners have bounced back to form, with wins against Club Brugge and Wolves. Mikel Arteta\u2019s team are two points clear at the top of the Premier League, with Manchester City and Villa in hot pursuit. Here is our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":662497,"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":[3,8,13,1831],"tags":[9689],"class_list":["post-662496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-everton","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662496","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=662496"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662502,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662496\/revisions\/662502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}