Just ten days until Arsenal travels to south London to face Crystal Palace in the 2022/2023 Premier League season opener.
After a very successful tour of the USA, Mikel Arteta and his squad are beginning to take shape for the season ahead.
Obviously, the team is still missing some very important pieces to the puzzle with Emile Smith Rowe, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Kieran Tierney and Fabio Vieira still recovering from small knocks. However, with that said, the rest of the squad is quickly coming together and producing really good results, as seen on the tour of America..
So, I predict Mikel Arteta will open the Palace match with the same starting XI we saw in Orlando v Chelsea…
[4-4-3]
Martinelli, Jesus, Saka
Xhaka, Odegaard, Partey
Zinchenko, Gabriel, Saliba, White
Ramsdale
Who do you think should be in the starting XI?
Let me know!
COYG!
Gunner1953
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