Watford are enjoying a dream start to the season bragging 13 points in 6 games raking in the Top 4 of the young Premier League table.
Arsenal on other hand started the season with two back-to-back defeats against Manchester City and Chelsea but Unai Emery & Co. have found their feet as they come into fixture with 6 wins on the trot.
When & Where?
Venue: Emirates Stadium
Date: Saturday, September 29
Kick-off time: 3p.m. BST
Team News
For the host, Dinos Mavropanos (groin) and Laurent Koscielny (Achilles) are both sidelined for another couple of months. Maitland-Niles is aiming to make his return to full training in early November from the small fracture to his left fibula.
Sokratis Papasthopoulos is likely to return to the starting XI after he hopped off the field against Everton.
Sead Kolasinac appeared as an unused substitute against Brentford for the first time since his knee injury. Mkhitaryan will be pushing for a start at the weekend.
As for Watford, Christian Kabasele is available for selection after his red card against Spurs in the Carabao Cup was overturned.
Daryl Janmaat has been ruled out for six weeks with a knee injury, so Marc Navarro is expected to fill in gap for Dutch international.
What the Managers said
Unai Emery: “We will continue with our ideas and our work every day.
“Our focus is only on the match tomorrow against Watford. Each match is very difficult.
“Wednesday was difficult and against Watford it will be the same. We all have the same focus, the same ideas, we will have the same preparation so we can give the best performance, both individual and collective.”
“I think it’s a big match and a rivalry match tomorrow.
“They want to win against us with good things tactically and good things also individually. But we know, tomorrow we need to play and we need also in the individual duels on the pitch, to win for step-by-step in the 90 minutes so we can impose our ideas, our job and our moment physically on the match.
“They are a team with very good players, very competitive and with the duels they are a very hard team.
Referee
Referee: Anthony Taylor
Assistants: Gary Beswick, Neil Davies
Fourth-official: Martin Atkinson
Probable Line-ups
Arsenal XI: Cech; Bellerin, Sokratis, Holding, Monreal; Torreira, Xhaka, Ozil, Ramsey, Aubameyang; Lacazette.
Watford XI: Foster; Navarro, Cathcart, Mariappa, Holebas; Hughes, Doucoure, Capoue, Pereyra; Gray, Deeney.
