With the international break finally coming to an end, Arsenal have the chance to make it three wins in a row when they face Newcastle United this weekend.
The Gunners started the season with a couple of tough fixtures against Manchester City and Chelsea, and unfortunately couldn’t get anything from those matches. Nonetheless, they showed progress, and turned that into results with victories over West Ham United and Cardiff City.
Next up it’s a trip to St. James’ Park. Arsenal have Alex Iwobi available again after illness, but otherwise the squad is looking very similar to the Cardiff fixture in terms of injuries. Kolasinac, Maitland-Niles, Jenkinson and Koscielny are all still out, for the time being.
After correctly predicting Alexandre Lacazette’s first start of the season last time out, this time we’re expecting another of Unai Emery’s summer signings to get his full debut. Let’s have a look at our predictions:
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We had to wait a while to see Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette starting together, but when they did, they both delivered goals. As a result, I think it would be very difficult for Unai Emery to drop either of them.
Mesut Özil is most likely to start on the right. As mentioned in the midfield section, it’s possible Mkhitaryan plays on the right and Özil moves into the middle, but for now it seems Emery favours his star playmaker on the right with Ramsey’s energy to support the attack and defence.
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