🕟 Kick Off: 16:30 BST

🏟️ Venue: London Stadium

📺 UK Broadcaster: Sky Sports

🙎🏻‍♂️ Referee: Chris Kavanagh

📹 VAR: Peter Bankes

🔴 Arsenal Team News:

• Jurrien Timber (Ankle/Groin): Ruled Out. Still recovering from the injury he picked up against Everton in March. He has teased his improving fitness on Instagram with pictures in the gym. Arteta says his condition is ‘more complicated’ than initially thought.
• Mikel Merino (Foot): Ruled Out. Back training on grass, targeting a return before the end of the season.

⚽ Arsenal Form: 🟩🟩🟧🟩🟥

⚒️ West Ham Team News:

• West Ham have a fully fit squad.

⚽ West Ham Form: 🟥🟩🟧🟩🟧

⚔️ Head-to-Head:

• Arsenal 2–0 West Ham (Oct 4, 2025, Premier League)
• Arsenal 0–1 West Ham (Feb 22, 2025, Premier League)
• West Ham 2–5 Arsenal (Nov 30, 2024, Premier League)
• West Ham 0–6 Arsenal (Feb 11, 2024, Premier League)
• Arsenal 0–2 West Ham (Dec 28, 2023, Premier League)

📖 Match Facts:

• West Ham haven’t lost a game at home since January 6th with a record of P9 W4 D5, including draws to Man City and Man United.
• Bukayo Saka has scored in each his last 3 appearances against West Ham.

✍🏼 Pre-Match Ramblings

In an alternate universe we come into this game with the title all but wrapped up, meaning we can rest and rotate players in service of the greater good. But we find ourselves needing to win this game, with City currently comfortably ahead at the Etihad against Brentford. Whatever their results, the fact remains that three wins in our remaining three games will win us the title, and the first stop is the London Stadium.

We’ve scored 11 goals in our last 2 visits to West Ham despite the Hammers beating us twice out of three time in our previous games at the Emirates. The big caveat here is that West Ham are scrapping for Premier League survival against Spurs, with a loss here taking their fate even further out of their hands. West Ham will fight tooth and nail to get anything out of this game, and we have to be ready for this.

Arsenal come into this game as Champions League finalists – that has to mean something for our performance. Heads will be held high, confidence will be elevated, but so will the stakes. Team selection is interesting with an almost fully fit squad. Ben White has been pushed to his limits at right back recently, so my (not so) bold prediction is that Mosquera will start this game in his place. The left back selection carries on, and I can’t call that. And we now finally have a good dilemma in midfield between MLS and Zubimendi. MLS has been in incredible form in his previous 2 starts in midfield – do we let him keep going? Do we turn back to Zubimendi? I can’t call that either.

Prior to their loss against Brentford West Ham had been picking up steady points against the likes of Everton (who gave us and City a game), Palace, and even managed a point against City, for which we thank them. Threat of relegation can cause incredible anomolies in games that you would class as gimmes, and Arsenal are not immune to this.

The menu is fixed: three wins from three. We’ve been standing behind the velvet ropes for 22 years, and now that we’re finally at the table, one wrong move sees us tossed back out into the cold.