Key events
Burnley have beaten Arsenal once in the Premier League, a 1-0 win at the Emirates in December 2020.
That’s some welcome for the hosts.
Krishnamoorthy v writes in:
Imagine the mental turmoil of Arteta while he presents a picture of equanimity, imagine the pressure of every single player who must be dreading ‘will I fail today? Will I be remembered as the villain who scuppered Arsenal’s one chance at glory?’, imagine all tbe poor Gunners who must be borrowing their partner’s digits to chew on having already chewed all their own fingernails to their end, imagine if the partner is also a Gunner.
Thank heavens I am a Chelsea fan. But there is no city rivalry today.
Arsenal – march on , do whatever you have to do to ensure that Manchester City does not win (yet) another league.
A reminder of the situation:
Burnley, who have won just one league game since the end of October, are unchanged. Arsenal have replaced the injured Ben White with Cristhian Mosquera. Martin Ødegaard and Kai Havertz come in for Myles Lewis-Skelly and Victor Gyökeres.
The teams
Arsenal: Raya, Mosquera, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Rice, Eze, Ødegaard, Saka, Trossard, Havertz
Subs: Arrizabalaga, Hincapié, Jesus, Martinelli, Gyökeres, Madueke, Zubimendi, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman
Burnley: Weiss, Walker, Estéve, Tuanzebe, Pires, Florentino, Ugochukwu, Tchaouna, Hannibal, Anthony, Flemming
Subs: Dubravka, Hartman, Worrall, Bruun Larsen, Edwards, Humphreys, Ward-Prowse, Amdouni, Laurent
Preview reading to get stuck into:
Preamble
First against 19th, the visitors already down. This should be straightforward but it just isn’t, is it? Arsenal are two victories away from their first league title in 22 years, maybe even just one if Manchester City fail to beat Bournemouth tomorrow night. Every Arsenal fan I speak to is terrified, the heart constantly throbbing, no calm to be found until it is finally over. Three second-place finishes on the bounce will do that to you. The suffering continues at 8pm BST.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2026/may/18/arsenal-v-burnley-premier-league-live
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