West Brom v Arsenal

Mesut Özil enjoyed an family dinner at an Italian restaurant on Thursday evening in the lead up to this weekends clash with West Brom.

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They are heading into this fixture on the back of two successive league defeats, but the timely intervention of the worldwide break at least has given them the space to regroup and reevaluate their issues.

And, ahead of Saturday’s visit of Arsenal, the Baggies chief has questioned whether the respective FAs should pay for taking players.

However, the Hornets have also kept four clean sheets in those games, and with Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial both missing for an already impotent United, goalmouth action could be a rare occurrence in the lunch-time kick-off. For Gareth McAuley to go away and play for Northern Ireland when he is 35 years of age and plays every game for us, then plays another 90 minutes for his country – I am not so sure as a manager I would do that.

Arsenal travel to the Hawthorns to face West Bromwich Albion, looking to extend their unbeaten run to seven games in the Premier League.

James Chester and Jonas Olsson are in line to replace him with Chester struggling to break into the Baggies side since his £8million summer move from Hull.

“Arsenal are a wonderful football club, the tradition all the way through before Wenger was there and since he’s been there”.

“I would even say that you don’t even look at the table anymore because you know what you get”.

“The difference between the teams has narrowed and these days it is more about how much can you be close to your best which will decide the result, more than the team you play against”.

Surprise, surprise, a team managed by Tony Pulis (West Brom) are the division’s joint-lowest scorers, while only Joe Hart has kept more clean sheets than Arsenal’s Cech in the Prem this season. Meanwhile, Theo Walcott (calf), Tomas Rosicky (knee), Jack Wilshere (ankle) and Danny Welbeck (knee) remain out.