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LEEDS VS ARSENAL
– The match starts at 4.30 pm
Confirmed teams
Leeds: Meslier, Ayling, Koch, Cooper, Dallas, Phillips, Klich, Alioski, Raphinha, Harrison, Bamford
Subs: Casilla, Struijk, Davis, Rodrigo, Costa, Roberts, Poveda
Arsenal: Leno, Bellerin, Holding, Gabriel, Tierney, Xhaka, Ceballos, Pepe, Willock, Willian, Aubameyang
Subsidiaries: Runarsson, Mustafi, Maitland-Niles, Saka, Nelson, Nketiah, Lacazette
MATCH PREVIEW
Both Leeds and Arsenal need three points in their first game after the international break and both suffered heavy defeats two weeks ago.
The Whites were thrashed by Crystal Palace while the Gunners found themselves at the end of a beating of Aston Villa at the Emirates.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said: “Obviously it has been a painful week because normally when you have a loss at home, you want a match right away.
“That was not the case, but we also used it to reflect on what we are doing, to analyze why that happened. We were all shocked by the way we ended the game, the last 25 or 30 minutes, before it was a different game, but we still have to improve in many areas.
“That consistency is something we need to improve a lot and after the good result and brilliant performance at Old Trafford, achieving that loss was a shock to the system for everyone. But let’s get the positives, learn and move on.”
He added: “They [Leeds] He will go full throttle as always and they have had two weeks to prepare for the game, they don’t have as many internationals as we do and I don’t expect them to change too much.
“They are very faithful to their principles, to the way they play and they approach every game in the same way, which is to win and be very aggressive with and without the ball and try to win.
“It doesn’t matter where they play, what I’ve seen of them in the last season, it’s not a concern about who they play against, it’s about what they do.”
While Leeds coach Marcelo Bielsa said: “Arsenal are one of the best teams in the league. They have top players in all their lines and they have a coach who proposes the style that distinguishes the team.”
“Arteta is a coach who wants his team to play as he projects and from a tactical point of view, if you look at Arsenal closely, they show things that I have never seen in any other team.
“In that January game we played well in the first half and not in the second. Arsenal’s improvement in the second half neutralized all the good things we did in the first half.
“But the game played on Sunday is not comparable to the one we played in January.”
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