🕟 Kick Off: 20:00 GMT

🏟️ Venue: Emirates Stadium

📺 UK Broadcaster: TNT Sports

🙎🏻‍♂️ Referee: Robert Jones

📹 VAR: John Brooks

🔴 Arsenal Team News:

• Riccardo Calafiori: Serving a suspension after accruing 5 yellow cards.
• Max Dowman: Ankle ligament injury, expected to be out for several weeks, potentially until early February 2026.
• Kai Havertz: Knee injury, has been out long-term and is expected to return around late December 2025/early January 2026.
• Gabriel Magalhães: Muscle injury (adductor/thigh), sidelined since the November international break, with a potential return in late December 2025/early January 2026.
• Cristhian Mosquera: Ankle/foot injury, reported to be out for several weeks, with an expected return around mid-January 2026.
• William Saliba: Knock, missed the last few games and is being assessed daily, but likely a matter of days before he is available.
• Leandro Trossard: Knock/calf issue, missed the last match, considered a minor issue and a matter of days.
• Jurrien Timber: Knock, missed the last match, being assessed but considered a minor issue and a matter of days.
• Declan Rice: Illness, missed the last match, expected to be resolved in a few days and is being assessed ahead of the next game.

⚽ Arsenal Form: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟧 🟩

🐺 Wolves Team News:

• Rodrigo Gomes: Groin/Hip injury, currently ruled out. Expected to return around early to mid-February 2026.
• Marshall Munetsi: Calf injury, currently ruled out. Expected return around mid-January 2026.
• Dan Bentley: Ankle injury, currently ruled out. Expected to return around December 20, 2025.
• Jean-Ricner Bellegarde: Knock, being assessed ahead of the match.

⚽ Wolves Form: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

⚔️ Head-to-Head:

• Wolves 0-1 Arsenal (January 25, 2025, Premier League)
• Arsenal 2-0 Wolves (August 17, 2024, Premier League)
• Wolves 0-2 Arsenal (April 20, 2024, Premier League)
• Arsenal 2-1 Wolves (December 2, 2023, Premier League)
• Arsenal 5-0 Wolves (May 28, 2023, Premier League)

📖 Match Facts:

• Wolves haven’t beaten Arsenal since February 2021 in a game which saw David Luiz (you know the one) and Bernd Leno sent off, with Arsenal losing from being 1-0 up after Pepe scored.
• Mikel Arteta hasn’t lost against Wolves since this game, and has never lost against Wolves at home.

✍🏼 Pre-Match Ramblings

Are you a top or are you a bottom? Tomorrow you can be a switch as 1st in the league take on 20th in the league in what is sure to be a thriller. I’m not proud of this as an opener to the ramblings, but with the amount I’m having to write I think I’m going slightly mental.

Arsenal bounced back from a devastating loss against Villa with a midweek win against Club Brugge and all but secured a Top 2 finish in the UCL Leage Phase. The last time we lost a game, which was against Liverpool earlier in the season, we went on an 18 game unbeaten run – let’s hope that this game is win #2 in a similar run.

Wolves haven’t won a game so far this season in the Premier League, and their only 2 wins came in the EFL cup against Everton and West Ham, so the idea of Wolves getting their first win of the campaign against the league leaders away from home is completely unprecedented… or is it?

Arteta will need to rotate again here given the state of the squad, I mean just look at that injury list. MLS is nailed on to start here, and if Timber isn’t fit it looks like White will be asked to start for the fourth consecutive match which comes with lots of risk given he has only recently started to play first team football again. Gyokeres came off relatively early against Brugge after failing to make an impact, so one would imagine he is set to start against Wolves.

Gyokeres needs to get firing before Havertz returns in the New Year or he will struggle to get starts given Arteta’s very public love of Havertz playing up front in his system. He is facing stiffer competition with the freshly risen Jesus returning to the pitch midweek. If the Brazillian can capture any amount of form then Gyokeres may fall even further down the pecking order.