Over the international break, the biggest news concerning Arsenal involved their club captain, Martin Odegaard, who suffered a nasty ankle injury while playing for Norway.
The prognosis isn’t too promising as he could be out until next month which means a number of key games will be missed.
Declan Rice is also out for Arsenal, so Spurs will smell blood.
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Tottenham Recent Form
Tottenham haven’t enjoyed a particularly positive start to the new campaign as from their opening three games they’ve accumulated just four points following a draw against Leicester on the opening day, a defeat of Everton and a loss against Newcastle.
The Leicester draw, in particular, will hurt as they completely dominated most of the game before succumbing to an equaliser from Jamie Vardy.
Tottenham Injury News
Big-money signing Dominic Solanke hurt his ankle on the opening matchday and hasn’t played since, missing the games against Everton and Newcastle. There is hope that he might be passed fit for this one, but we might see him appear from the bench.
Micky van de Ven should be fit to feature despite missing the international break with the Netherlands squad, though Richarlison will miss a couple of weeks of action after picking up a knock in training.
Yves Bissouma picked up a knock while with Mali, but he should be fine to play.
Rodrigo Bentancur faces a ban for a racism row involving team-mate Heung-min Son, but decision has been made on that one yet by the FA.
Last Tottenham Lineup
Here’s how Tottenham lined up against Newcastle.
Arsenal Recent Form
There’s no need to panic at this early stage, of course, but Arsenal have already lost ground to Manchester City and Liverpool in the title race following their 1-1 draw against Brighton a fortnight ago.
Prior to that, they won their opening two games of the news season versus Wolves and Aston Villa.
They’ve scored five goals so far and conceded one.
Arsenal Injury News
As mentioned above, Arsenal will be without their talismanic captain…
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