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Brentford Aim to Challenge Arsenal’s Title Charge at the Emirates
Arsenal welcome Brentford to the Emirates on Wednesday night. The team are looking to bounce back after their 1-1 draw against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, which felt like a game they probably should have pushed further.....TAP TO CONTINUE READING
especially since Chelsea went down to ten men but still managed to score first through Trevoh Chalobah. Mikel Merino’s header rescued them a point.
Brentford, on the other hand, arrive with a strange kind of momentum. Their 3-1 win over Burnley was decided in the final stretch, with all the goals coming in during the last ten minutes.
Igor Thiago grabbed a brace, while Dango Ouattara slipped in the late third, giving the Bees a confidence boost right when they needed it.
Brentford Players celebrating the win (Photo Credit: Brentford via X)
Brentford Players celebrating (Photo Credit: Brentford via X)
Arsenal still sit five points clear at the top, and matches like this are ones Arteta definitely wants to control without too much drama.
Team News
Softfootball understands that Arsenal will be without William Saliba, who recently extended his contract with the Gunners. He missed the Chelsea game due to injury, and with Gabriel still out too, it means Cristhian Mosquera and Piero Hincapié should continue as the centre-back pairing.
Noni Madueke, Martin Ødegaard, and Viktor Gyökeres all came off the bench last weekend, and there’s a good chance they get pushed into the starting XI.
The club posted a photo of their remaining games of the year via their official X account.
View the post below:
For Brentford, Fabio Carvalho, Antoni Milambo, and Josh Dasilva are all still out until 2026. Aside from that, Keith Andrews is likely to keep things steady and stick with a strong, familiar setup.
Possible Lineups
Arsenal:
Raya; Timber, Mosquera, Hincapié, Lewis-Skelly; Ødegaard, Zubimendi, Rice; Saka, Gyökeres, Madueke
Brentford:
Kelleher; Kayode, Collins, Van den Berg, Ajer, Henry; Yarmoliuk, Henderson; Damsgaard; Ouattara, Thiago
Softfootball’s Prediction
Arsenal have been in fine form this season, especially at home, but Brentford can be unpredictable sometimes, in a good way, sometimes completely the opposite, but their late-game sharpness could still give Arsenal a bit of trouble.
Prediction: Arsenal 2–1 Brentford
Barcelona superstar Lamine Yamal now holds another Champions League record after the club’s 2-1 victory over Frankfurt on Tuesday night.....TAP TO CONTINUE READING
Yamal’s assist for Jules Kounde means he now has more goal involvements in the tournament than any other player aged 18 or younger.
The Spaniard has now beaten Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe’s record.
Barcelona had to come from behind to get the three points against Frankfurt at the Spotify Nou Camp.
Ansgar Knauff put the Bundesliga side in front before the break.
But in the second half, two goals from Kounde sealed an important victory for the Catalans, with Marcus Rashford and Yamal bagging assists.
Chelsea manager, Enzo Maresca, has blamed a lack of control and fatigue for their 2-1 defeat to Atalanta in the Champions League on Tuesday night.....TAP TO CONTINUE READING
Maresca’s men took the lead through Joao Pedro, before the Serie A side fought back to take all three points.
Gianluca Scamacca’s header levelled the game, before Charles De Ketelaere smashed in the winner in the 83rd minute.
“After we conceded the first goal, we lost control a little bit of the game,” Maresca told TNT Sports.
“We are playing every two days, two days, two days. For a moment we looked like we struggled a bit.
“We were aggressive like them. We had different chances to make it 2-0 and when we conceded 1-1 the dynamic of the game changed a little bit.”
Chelsea now have 10 points from six games, two points behind eighth-placed Liverpool.
The Blues welcome Everton to Stamford Bridge next in the Premier League this weekend.
Brazil head coach, Carlo Ancelotti, has predicted that Arsenal will not win the Champions League this season.....TAP TO CONTINUE READING
The Gunners have won all the five fixtures they have played so far and are top of the league phase with 15 points.
Mikel Arteta’s side have seen off the likes of Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich in that run, conceding only one goal.
Arsenal are being regarded by several pundits as one of the favourites to lift the trophy this season.
But Ancelotti, who won the competition twice with AC Milan and three times with Real Madrid, feels one of his former clubs will emerge champions.
In an interview with TNT Sport, Ancelotti was asked who is thinks will win the Champions League, he simply replied: “My Real Madrid.”
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