🕟 Kick Off: 19:45 BST

📍 Location: Emirates Stadium, North London

📺 UK Broadcaster: N/A

🙎🏻‍♂️ Referee: John Brooks

🔴 Arsenal Team News:

• Calafiori is likely to miss the game after he picked up a knee injury in the international break.
• Havertz is recovering from surgery on his hamstring.
• Saka has returned to training following a hamstring injury.
• Jesus is in recovery following surgery on a torn ACL.
• Tomiyasu is recovering from surgery on his knee and is expected to be out for the rest of the calendar year.

⚽ Arsenal Form: 🟩🟧🟧🟩🟧

⚪ Fulham Team News:

• Wilson is out with a foot injury.
• Tete is absent with a knee issue.
• Nelson misses the game through a hamstring issue.

⚽ Fulham Form: 🟥🟩🟥🟧🟩

⚔️ Head-to-Head:

• Fulham 1-1 Arsenal (8th Dec 2024, Premier League)
• Fulham 2-1 Arsenal (31st Dec 2023, Premier League)
• Arsenal 2-2 Fulham (26th Aug 2023, Premier League)
• Fulham 0-3 Arsenal (12th Mar 2023, Premier League)
• Arsenal 2-1 Fulham (27th Aug 2022, Premier League)

📖 Match Facts:

• The last time Arsenal beat Fulham at the Emirates was in 2022 in a game where we were 1-0 down with 30 minutes to play. Goals from Odegaard and an 85th minute goal from Gabriel completed a comeback to win us 3 points. We haven’t beaten Fulham at the Emirates since.
• Fulham have kept the 4th lowest clean sheets this season at 5. Arsenal have kept the 2nd highest at 11.
• Fulham have conceded the third lowest xG at 33.4, behind only Liverpool and Arsenal.

🎲 Odds (Betway):

• Arsenal – 4/9
• Draw – 100/30
• Fulham – 13/2

✍🏼 Pre-Match Ramblings

And we’re back after 2 weeks of no Arsenal and a pretty uneventful international break (apart from Calafiori getting injured again). We face Fulham in our first of two warmup games ahead of the home tie against Real Madrid next week, with a trip to Everton awaiting us on Saturday.

Saka nears closer to a return with our talisman rumoured to be very likely available for the Real Madrid game. Will we see his return to a matchday squad tomorrow? Maybe. Will he get any minutes? I doubt it.

Fulham will not be an easy opponent for us given their European aspirations. The West London club currently sit in 8th place on 45 points in a very congested upper midtable. Dropped points could see them down in 10th at the end of the gameweek, whereas a victory and good results in other parts of the country could see the climb up to 6th place, just behind City.

As for our league position, our place in the Champions League next season is pretty set in stone, especially with the Premier League looking nailed on to receive the extra spot meaning 5th place with get in to the top competition, we would need to drop 10 points to be in any danger of missing out.