{"id":662710,"date":"2025-12-29T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=662710"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:25:34","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-team-news-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/29\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-team-news-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Aston Villa for December 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal have been highly impressive in the first half of the 2025\/26 season, suffering just two defeats in all competitions. A recent draw against Chelsea and a defeat against Aston Villa left the Gunners with questions to answer. Since those slip-ups, they have ground out results, winning four games and beating Crystal Palace on penalties in the Carabao Cup. Mikel Arteta\u2019s<\/a> team now faces high-flying Aston Villa<\/a>, and here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for this Premier League clash.<\/p>\n

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

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

Arsenal continue to lead the way in the Premier League, despite intense pressure from Manchester City and Aston Villa. Last time out against Brighton, the Gunners lined up in their familiar 4-3-3 formation, with David Raya starting in goal, with Declan Rice, William Saliba, Piero Hincapi\u00e9, and Myles Lewis-Skelly completing the defence.<\/p>\n

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In midfield, Arteta selected Mikel Merino, Martin Odegaard, and Martin Zubimendi. Out wide, Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard supported Viktor Gyokeres.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

After the victory over Brighton, Arteta provided updates<\/a> on the availability of Riccardo Califiori and Jurrien Timber, while praising the attitude of Declan Rice:<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, because as well there are injuries with Jurrien, he landed awkwardly and there’s something with Richy as well, very, very strange. But you speak to Declan and tell him he needs to play there as a right winger and he said, OK, I’m up for the challenge, I’m going to do my best, and the attitude is great to witness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the Gunners injury problems this season, the squad appears to have a togetherness which is helping them maintain their excellent run of results.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n
GK: Raya<\/div>\n
LB: Lewis-Skelly<\/div>\n
CB: Gabriel<\/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 \/ PA Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal have been highly impressive in the first half of the 2025\/26 season, suffering just two defeats in all competitions. A recent draw against Chelsea and a defeat against Aston Villa left the Gunners with questions to answer. Since those slip-ups, they have ground out results, winning four games and beating Crystal Palace on penalties […]<\/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":[3,8,3838,1831],"tags":[9689],"class_list":["post-662710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-aston-villa","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\/662710","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=662710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662717,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662710\/revisions\/662717"}],"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=662710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}