Evening Standard
·28 September 2024
Evening Standard
·28 September 2024
The Gunners will look to bounce back from last-gasp Man City equaliser after Carabao Cup demolition
Arsenal are back on home soil in the Premier League this afternoon as they take on struggling Leicester at the Emirates Stadium. It has been an eventful week for the Gunners, who so nearly pulled off what would have been one of their most memorable wins of recent times and came agonisingly close to a major psychological boost in the title race before John Stones’ last-gasp equaliser secured a dramatic draw for Manchester City in a feisty battle in which Mikel Arteta’s side were reduced to 10 men.
Arsenal were accused of deploying some ‘dark arts’ in their quest for that unlikely victory at the Etihad, though their manager gave such criticism short shrift ahead of a midweek demolition of third-tier Bolton in the Carabao Cup in which the likes of Ethan Nwaneri shone. Arteta is still being plagued by injury problems ahead of Leicester’s visit, though David Raya and Jurrien Timber are both fit as Ben White misses out.
The Gunners will be expected to make light work of a Foxes side that are among the six teams still yet to register a top-flight victory so far this term and who needed penalties to overcome League Two Walsall in midweek, with Oliver Skipp and Facundo Buonanotte drafted in by Steve Cooper. Follow Arsenal vs Leicester live below!