{"id":662757,"date":"2025-12-30T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=662757"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:07:30","slug":"arsenal-vs-aston-villa-confirmed-lineups-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/30\/arsenal-vs-aston-villa-confirmed-lineups-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Aston Villa Confirmed Lineups for December 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Arsenal\/status\/2006002334942519508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aston Villa<\/a> at the Emirates. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/04\/best-arsenal-players-number-14-jersey\/\" target=\"_self\">The Gunners<\/a> have enjoyed a memorable first half of the 2025\/26 season. They have only lost twice in all competitions this season. Villa, alongside Manchester City, remain hot on their heels. Can Mikel Arteta\u2019s team maintain their lead at the top of the league, or can Unai Emery\u2019s team continue their impressive form and gain a huge three points in North London?<\/p>\n<p>Villa have been in impressive form this season, beating Arsenal and Chelsea in recent months. Their quality has shone through this season, but with the man management of Emery, they have a great opportunity to have a memorable season.<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal vs Aston Villa Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n<h3>Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>Starting XI<\/strong>: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie, Zubimendi, Merino, Odegaard, Saka, Trossard, Gyokeres. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>Subs<\/strong>: Arrizabalaga, White, Lewis-Skelly, Norgaard, Eze, Martinelli, Madueke, Havertz, Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Aston Villa Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>Starting XI<\/strong>: Martinez, Bogarde, Konsa, Lindelof, Digne, Onana, Tielemans, Sancho, Rogers, Buendia, Watkins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>Subs<\/strong>: Bizot, Wright, Maatsen, Garcia, South, Hemmings, McGinn, Malen, Jimoh-Aloba.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>David Raya<\/li>\n<li>Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/li>\n<li>Tommy Setford<\/li>\n<li>William Saliba<\/li>\n<li>Cristhian Mosquera<\/li>\n<li>Ben White<\/li>\n<li>Piero Hincapi\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es<\/li>\n<li>Jurri\u00ebn Timber<\/li>\n<li>Riccardo Calafiori<\/li>\n<li>Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/li>\n<li>Martin \u00d8degaard<\/li>\n<li>Eberechi Eze<\/li>\n<li>Christian N\u00f8rgaard<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Nwaneri<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Merino<\/li>\n<li>Mart\u00edn Zubimendi<\/li>\n<li>Declan Rice<\/li>\n<li>Max Dowman<\/li>\n<li>Bukayo Saka<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Jesus<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Martinelli<\/li>\n<li>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/li>\n<li>Leandro Trossard<\/li>\n<li>Noni Madueke<\/li>\n<li>Kai Havertz<\/li>\n<li>Andre Harriman-Annous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Aston Villa Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Emi Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Marco Bizot<\/li>\n<li>Sam Proctor<\/li>\n<li>James Wright<\/li>\n<li>Rhys Oakley<\/li>\n<li>Matty Cash<\/li>\n<li>Victor Lindelof<\/li>\n<li>Ezri Konsa<\/li>\n<li>Tyrone Mings<\/li>\n<li>Lucas Digne<\/li>\n<li>Pau Torres<\/li>\n<li>Andres Garcia<\/li>\n<li>Ian Maatsen<\/li>\n<li>Travis Patterson<\/li>\n<li>Ross Barkley<\/li>\n<li>John McGinn<\/li>\n<li>Youri Tielemans<\/li>\n<li>Harvey Elliott<\/li>\n<li>Emiliano Buendia<\/li>\n<li>Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba<\/li>\n<li>Amadou Onana<\/li>\n<li>Lamare Bogarde<\/li>\n<li>Boubacar Kamara<\/li>\n<li>Aidan Borland<\/li>\n<li>Ben Broggio<\/li>\n<li>Bradley Burrowes<\/li>\n<li>Ollie Watkins<\/li>\n<li>Donyell Malen<\/li>\n<li>Jadon Sancho<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Rogers<\/li>\n<li>Evann Guessand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Both squads <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/match\/2562075\/arsenal-vs-aston-villa?tab=squads\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Aston Villa at the Emirates. The Gunners have enjoyed a memorable first half of the 2025\/26 season. They have only lost twice in all competitions this season. Villa, alongside Manchester City, remain hot on their heels. Can Mikel Arteta\u2019s team maintain their lead at the top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":658239,"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":[3,8,3838,30],"tags":[32547,32676],"class_list":["post-662757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-aston-villa","category-news","tag-arsenal-team-news","tag-aston-villa-team-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662757","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=662757"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662765,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662757\/revisions\/662765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}