{"id":662673,"date":"2025-12-27T04:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=662673"},"modified":"2025-12-27T04:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:46:04","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-brighton-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/27\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-brighton-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Brighton for December 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal have enjoyed an impressive first half of the season, suffering just two defeats in all competitions. A recent draw against Chelsea and a defeat against Aston Villa left Mikel Arteta\u2019s team with questions to answer. They have returned to winning ways, including last time out, when they beat Crystal Palace<\/a> on penalties in the quarter-final of the Carabao Cup. Attention turns back to the Premier League, with Arsenal hosting Brighton at the Emirates<\/a>. Here is our Arsenal Predicted lineup for this 15:00 GMT kick-off.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Brighton\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

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

Arsenal continue to lead the way in the Premier League, but were in Carabao Cup action last time out, winning on penalties. A Marc Guehi 95th-minute goal dramatically levelled the tie. As expected, Mikel Arteta made plenty of changes, but lined up in their usual 4-3-3 formation.<\/p>\n

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Kepa started in goal, with Jurrien Timber, William Saliba, Riccardo Calafiori, and Myles Lewis-Skelly completing the defence.<\/p>\n

In midfield, Arteta selected Mikel Merino, Christian Norgaard, and Eberechi Eze. Out wide, Noni Madueke and Gabriel Martinelli supported Gabriel Jesus.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

In the pre-match press conference<\/a>, Arteta discussed the imminent return of Kai Havertz:<\/p>\n

“I think it will be a matter of days, if not weeks.<\/p>\n

“Let’s see in the next step how he responds to that. He’s a player that we missed a lot, a player that brings the team into a different dimension. So, I’m really happy to have him back very soon.”<\/p>\n

Gabriel has been missing from the Arteta\u2019s squad since sustaining an injury when playing for Brazil against Senegal in November:<\/p>\n

“We’ll have to wait and see,” Mikel said when asked about his availability for Brighton. “He hasn’t trained yet, he’s still doing his rehab. But hopefully as quickly as possible because we know the situation that we have in the back line.”<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n
GK: Raya<\/div>\n
LB: Lewis-Skelly<\/div>\n
CB: Calafiori<\/div>\n
CB: Saliba<\/div>\n
RB: Timber<\/div>\n
CM: Zubimendi<\/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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IMAGO \/ Visionhaus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal have enjoyed an impressive first half of the season, suffering just two defeats in all competitions. A recent draw against Chelsea and a defeat against Aston Villa left Mikel Arteta\u2019s team with questions to answer. They have returned to winning ways, including last time out, when they beat Crystal Palace on penalties in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":659808,"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":[3,8,1265,1831],"tags":[9689],"class_list":["post-662673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","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\/662673","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=662673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662676,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662673\/revisions\/662676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}