Preston North End

Arsenal’s young striker Stephy Mavididi has joined Preston North End for the 2017/18 season.

Football matches turn on moments.

It was a long-awaited return to first-team action for Danny Welbeck on Saturday evening against Preston North End, eight months after his last senior appearance during Arsenal’s 2-2 away draw against Manchester City.

Muddling through as seasonal schizophrenia returns.

Squad rotation was always likely with Arsenal’s FA Cup clash away against Championship opposition, and Ainsley Maitland-Niles made his third start for the senior side this season after impressing in previous fixtures.

Ian Wright has explained how Arsenal need to be more ruthless on the pitch.

Lucas Perez is very quickly becoming a player I like a lot.

Arsenal took it as a personal challenge to make this “easy cup fixture” more entertaining for the neutrals.

Olivier Giroud has now scored five goals in five starts.

It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t easy, but we finally managed a win against Preston North End in the FA Cup.

Arsenal and Preston North End have faced each other a total of 79 times in our history.

With Arsenal struggling to draw against Bournemouth in the Premier League just days ago, could Preston North End cause an upset in the FA Cup on Saturday?

Arsenal face Preston North End in one of this weekend’s FA Cup third round ties and after a frantic fightback from a three-goal deficit on Tuesday against Bournemouth, they’ll be eager for a much smoother ride against the Championship outfit.

With most of Arsenal’s first team obviously feeling complete cream-crackered after so many fixtures in such a short space of time, it’s very likely that we’ll see a rotated side picked to face Preston North End in the FA Cup on Saturday.

Arsenal are expected to make a number of changes for the game against Preston at the weekend with Laurent Koscielny and Alexis being rested.

Preston North End should welcome Arsenal to Deepdale on Saturday for their FA Cup tie with no injured players in their squad.