Nottingham Forest will look to climb off the bottom of the Premier League when they play table-topping Arsenal on Sunday, one week after picking up a surprise win over Liverpool. Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is poised to recall Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus to the starting line up after resting them for the Europa League defeat to PSV Eindhoven on Thursday night..
The Gunners lost the game 2-0, but had already qualified for the knockout stages before the match thanks to four wins in four. They were held to a 1-1 draw with Southampton last time out in the league, with Granit Xhaka scoring his fourth goal of the season.
Defenders Ben White and Gabriel could also be in contention to start. The latter was seen limping off the pitch at full time of the PSV game and has so far played every minute of Arsenal's run to the top of the table.
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Thomas Partey is another player set to return to the starting lineup in place of Albert Sambi Lokonga and should slot in alongside Xhaka and captain Martin Odegaard in midfield. Arteta will be looking for a response from his side having gone two games without a win for the first time this season.
"It's the end of a long run and now it's time to reset and analyse what happened," Arteta said. "PSV deserved to win, no question. We were nowhere near our level today.
"Last week the game was all ours. Today it was very different and when you play like that against the top teams it's very difficult to win. Today we were extremely poor. There have been periods recently when we have been excellent and others when we have suffered. We've not had the consistency for 95 minutes that we want."
Arsenal likely XI: Ramsdale; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Tomiyasu; Odegaard, Partey, Xhaka; Saka, Jesus, Martinelli.
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