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Mikel Arteta makes four changes to the Arsenal team that lined up against West Ham. In defence Gabriel and Riccardo Calafiori drop out with Jakub Kiwior and Oleksandr Zinchenko coming in. Jorginho and Leandro Trossard are alos excluded with Gabriel Martinelli and Thomas Partey favoured.

Ruben Amorim makes six changes to his Man Utd line-up with the big news being Harry Maguire starts for the first time under the new boss. He takes up the left centre-back role which Lisandro Martinez vacates. Amad Diallo, Kobbie Mainoo, Marcus Rashford, Joshua Zirkzee and Casemiro are the other casualties.

In their place come Mason Mount, Tyrell Malacia, Manuel Ugarte, Alejandro Garnacho and Rasmus Hojlund.

Arsenal XI: Raya: Timber, Saliba, Kiwior, Zinchenko; Rice, Partey; Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli; Havertz

Man Utd XI: Onana; Mazraoui, De Ligt, Maguire; Dalot, Mount, Ugarte, Malacia; Fernandes, Garnacho; Hojlund

Mikel Arteta has won six of his nine Premier League games against Manchester United. Of all managers to face them at least five times in the competition, he has the highest win rate (67%).

Manchester United’s four most recent competitive wins in this fixture were under different managers: Jose Mourinho (April 2018), Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (January 2019), Michael Carrick (December 2021) and Erik ten Hag (September 2022).

Will Ruben Amorim be the fifth?

Luke Shaw is likely to miss the rest of 2024 after being “devastated” to suffer yet another injury.

The England left-back, who has not started a game for Manchester United since February, has been ruled out for a few weeks after suffering a new muscular problem.

It is Shaw’s third absence since he last began a match for United after missing the final three months of last season with a hamstring problem and then the first three months of the current campaign with a calf injury. He then made three substitute appearances under new head coach Ruben Amorim before breaking down again.

Will Leny Yoro feature for Man Utd?

Here’s what Ruben Amorim had to say: “We have one more training session to see it, maybe Leny Yoro is going to be in the squad.

“I felt he’s in a good moment now. His fitness is better, so I think he is going to be in the squad. The rest I have to see it, because some players were tired so we have to assess tomorrow in training.”

Mikel Arteta was full of praise for Bukayo Saka who continues to improve and impress for Arsenal. The Gunners boss said: “Yeah, in terms of the numbers, yes [we’ve noticed a shift].

“But we always see a shift in Bukayo. Every single year, he’s providing something else, he’s adding things to his game, he’s more and more consistent.

“And as you mentioned now, his numbers in terms of impact in goals and assists is incredible at this stage of decision. He can only improve, he can only get better.

“He has the right players around him as well to continue to do so, and especially because he wants more.”

Arsenal can win four successive league games against Manchester United for the first time. United have lost seven of their past nine Premier League away games against Arsenal.

Things seemed primed for a Gunners victory tonight.

At his pre-match press conference the Gunners boss was asked what he’s learned since becoming manager and Mikel Arteta revealed that the role is ‘unpredictable’.

He said: “How unpredictable this job is, because I jumped into a new job in the middle of the season in very special circumstances, socially, especially at the football club.

“And then we go through Covid.

“So you can plan whatever you want, but in the end, football will take you in directions that you can never imagine and you have to deal with things. So take it as it comes, face it and go for it.”