Arsenal vs Stoke City – English Premier League – Preview

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Sreya

Arsenal vs Stoke City – Arsenal hosts Stoke City at the Emirates on 1st April, Sunday in a crucial English Premier League fixture.

Arsenal are sixth in the league standings with forty-eight points and won 3-0 against Watford in their last game after three consecutive losses in their three preceding matches.

Stoke City, nineteenth in the English Premier League standings, have twenty-seven points but have not won any of their last six league matches – losing to Manchester City and Everton in their previous two matches.

Team News

Santi Cazorla is still on the sidelines with an injury while Aaron Ramsey, Alexandre Lacazette and Ainsley Maitland-Niles are yet to regain match fitness.

Stoke City will be without the suspended Charlie Adam and the injured Stephen Ireland, Lee Grant, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, Mame Biram Diouf and Kevin Wimmer.

Arsenal Possible Starting Lineup: Petr Cech, Hector Bellerin, Shkodran Mustafi, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Granit Xhaka, Aaron Ramsey, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Mesut Ozil, Alex Iwobi, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Stoke City Possible Starting Lineup: Jack Butland, Glen Johnson, Ryan Shawcross, Kurt Zouma, Konstantinos Stafylidis, Darren Fletcher, Badou Ndiaye, Xherdan Shaquiri, Joe Allen, Ramadan Sobhi, Peter Crouch.

“You can’t just win a game because two or three players have a good game. You have to work together as a unit, both in defence and in attack. I think we’ve become stronger defensively because we’re all really focusing on what we need to do.

Everyone knows that we have a lot of quality going forward, but at the moment I think we’ve got that balance and we need to keep that.”

– Granit Xhaka, Arsenal.

Contributor’s Pick

According to Arsenal vs Stoke City H2H Stats, Arsenal have won three, lost one and drawn one of their last five games against Stoke City. Arsenal have won all of their last ten matches against Stoke City in all competitions.

A 2-1 win for Arsenal is the most probable outcome.