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Mikel Arteta says Arsenal have used the worldwide break to “mirror and reset” forward of the run-in.
The Gunners have twin targets over the ultimate weeks of the season. They face Actual Madrid within the quarter-finals of the Champions League, the primary leg coming subsequent week, whereas they nonetheless keep an out of doors probability of chasing down Liverpool within the Premier League title race.
Arsenal are 12 factors behind the Merseysiders with simply 9 video games to go and don’t have any room for error, beginning tomorrow evening in opposition to Fulham.
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Arteta mentioned: “We had fun to mirror and reset and put ourselves in a great place to enter probably the most thrilling a part of the Premier League season.
“It’s doable to win tomorrow. The preparation is to be higher than Fulham and beat them. If we try this, we’ll begin to construct momentum that can assist us in each competitions.”
Arsenal have fallen behind Liverpool after a run of only one win in 4 league video games and Arteta is anticipating one other robust check in opposition to a Fulham facet who stay in competition to sneak right into a European qualifying spot.
He added: “They’re all the time a troublesome opposition. They’re nicely coached they usually have been collectively for a few years. They’ve nice organisation and particular person high quality.
“They’ve a really clear identification and concept of learn how to method the sport. So we’ve to be superb to beat them.
“We had a variety of dominance within the final recreation in opposition to them [1-1 draw in December], however they had been very scientific. They managed to attain the objective and sat again and decreased the areas.”
Fulham head to North London on the again of a morale-sapping 3-0 defeat at house to Crystal Palace within the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.
Marco Silva’s males had been disappointing however a win on the Emirates would transfer them as much as sixth within the desk, one level behind fourth-placed Chelsea.
Workforce Information for Arsenal v Fulham
The massive information for Arsenal is the very fact England winger Bukayo Saka is “able to go” and will likely be included within the squad.
Saka has not performed since sustaining a severe hamstring damage within the win at Crystal Palace in December however is match once more after a prolonged interval of rehabilitation.
“Bukayo Saka is able to go,” mentioned Arteta.
“All of the cautious issues are already performed. Now it’s about placing him within the grass on the proper second. However he’s pushing as a result of he actually desires to.
“We have now revered the timeline and we’ve performed every thing. He is able to go.”
It’s doubtless he’ll begin on the bench with Ethan Nwaneri persevering with down the appropriate.
The detrimental for Arsenal is Riccardo Calafiori sustained a knee damage on worldwide responsibility with Italy and isn’t accessible.
Fulham have a clear invoice of well being and can choose from the identical squad that took on Palace, though Silva is more likely to make modifications given their weekend efficiency.
Predicted line-ups for Arsenal v Fulham
Arsenal: Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly; Partey, Rice, Odegaard; Nwaneri, Merino, Martinelli
Fulham: Leno; Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson; Berge, Lukic; Traore, Smith-Rowe, Iwobi; Jimenez
Methods to watch Arsenal v Fulham: TV and on-line stream
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Stats for Arsenal v Fulham
Arsenal have received 5 of their final 10 video games in opposition to Fulham by two targets or moreThere has been a first-half objective in every of Arsenal’s final seven house gamesFulham have scored a first-half objective of their final 4 away video games
Prediction
Had Fulham received on the weekend this might have been a tougher recreation for Arsenal.
However the setback to Palace, and the character of the defeat, may take a while to recover from.
Arsenal will likely be buoyed by Saka’s return and we predict he’ll reappear within the second half with the sport already received.
Prediction: Arsenal 4-1 Fulham
