Chelsea vs Arsenal: Premier League – live | Premier League

Apart from a 3-0 win at Preston in the Carabao Cup, It’s been a dry spell for Arsenal since the last international break – especially away from home. The Gunners have beaten Bournemouth, Inter and Newcastle, a run of defeats that has raised questions about Mikel Arteta’s tactics and the team’s overall sophistication.

Will the return of Ødegaard be a panacea to all these problems? Barney Ronay doubts it.

We are in the last 30 minutes of the previous kick-off games:

So everyone starts, injury doubts or not! Palmer probably isn’t a big surprise. When asked about the playmaker’s fitness in recent press conferences, Maresca has taken his cards pretty seriously and the fact that Palmer is not in Chelsea’s Conference League squad has helped him. He should be fit and firing to be in the spotlight today. Reece James drops to the Blues bench, with Cucurella preferred and Gusto playing at right-back.

The bigger concern is Arsenal’s injury squad, with Declan Rice apparently playing despite a broken toe and Ødegaard having only just returned from a long-standing ankle problem.

The positive result for both sides – and the neutrals – is two benches full of potential game-changers: Félix, Nkunku, Trossard, Jesus… oooften.

Team news

Official team news will appear at 3:15 p.m. We await news on several key midfielders. Arsenal fans will definitely want to see Declan Rice and Martin Odegaard. Both players are understood to have arrived at Stamford Bridge, along with Kai Havertz and Mikel Merino, who both picked up a knock in Milan in midweek.

Chelsea’s concerns center around Cole Palmer, who suffered a battering from Lisandro Martinez at Manchester United last weekend, but the general consensus seems to be that Palmer will be fine. He would probably be the biggest missing person of all.

Here’s some pre-game reading.

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