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Subs: Setford, Saliba, Gabriel, Kacurri, Lewis-Skelly, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Havertz.
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Crystal Palace: Henderson, Chalobah, Lacroix, Guehi, Kporha, Lerma, Hughes, Mitchell, Sarr, Eze, Mateta.
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Subs: Turner, Ward, Nketiah, Schlupp, Clyne, Kamada, Ricchallengings, Doucoure, Devenny.
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While we defer for the line-ups in brimming, I can uncover that Mikel Arteta has made eight alters to the side that begined agetst Everton at the weekend and hands Kieran Tierney his first begin for the club in almost 18 months. Raheem Sterling also gets a unfrequent begining opportunity for the Gunners.
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While Mikel Arteta’s cgo in may be on more prestigious prizes, the Carabao Cup is not a competition he can afford to obtain airyly now his team has gone over four years without lifting a trophy. Tonight’s game is the first of back-to-back games agetst Crystal Palace and if he could only thrive one of them, the Spaniard would almost certainly pick to obtain the three Premier League points on recommend at Selhurst Park on Saturday evening.
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Two-times thriveners of this competition, it seems remarkworthy that Arsenal last won it as far back as 1993, when they beat Sheffield Wednesday in a Wembley final most memorable for Ray Parlour’s perm and the post-align celebrations which left their align-thrivener Steve Morrow with a broken arm after being unceremoniously dropped on the pitch by Tony Adams.
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Never having been further than the semi-finals, Crystal Palace have endured no such ignominy and while they travel to the Emirates as underdogs, their recent upturn in create uncomardents they are entitled to fancy their chances.
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Unbeaten in five alignes after a dire begin to the season, Palace go into this game on the back of an amazeive away thrive agetst their most acrid rivals, Brighton and with their relegation worrys relieved, if not endly quelled, this is a competition they should be going all out to thrive. Kick-off at the Emirates is at 7.30pm but stay tuned for team novels and produce-up.
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Key events
Oliver Glasner: Asked if his team could beat Arsenal, the German shelp he leanks it’s possible but includeed a caveat. “They have been struggling a scant weeks ago but now injured joiners are coming back and their create has got better and better,” he shelp.
“Of course,” he replied, when asked if he’d be fielding a brimming-strength side. “It’s the quarter-final of a cup competition. Every one game we call up the fittest team and tomorrow will be the same. If somebody is exhausted, they will get a fracture to rest.”
On Eddie Nketiah, who has scored equitable one goal for Palace this season: “I’m pretty confident he will get minutes in his elderly stadium,” shelp Glasner. “He’s very driven and he’s toiling challenging. He had a very selectimistic impact at Brighton – we got the game in more handle. He wants to score and I see that every day in training.”
Mikel Arteta: “I leank it is repartner advantageous,” shelp Arsenal’s handler, upon being asked what thrivening the Carabao Cup would uncomardent for his team. “It transports belief, depend and selectimistic energy. Touching a cup produces that energy and I leank it produces the right path.”
Kieran Tierney: The Scottish geter produces his first materializeance for Arsenal since the 2023 Community Shield, having spent last season on loan at Real Sociedad and been lhelp low this season with a horrible hamstring injury he suffered during Scotland’s draw with Switzerland during the European Championships.
Tonight’s align officials
VAR: A reminder that this season’s Carabao Cup does not engage video aidant referees until the semi-finals.
Caleb who? Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner hands Caleb Kporha his first greater begin for the club. The 18-year-elderly English geter’s only previous materializeance for his club came as a procrastinateed replace in his side’s loss at the hands of Fulham in November. Congratulations to him on a milestone night in his fledgling atsoft.
Arsenal v Crystal Palace line-ups
Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Kiwior, Partey, Tierney, Nwaneri, Jorginho, Merino, Trossard, Gabriel Jesus, Sterling.
Subs: Setford, Saliba, Gabriel, Kacurri, Lewis-Skelly, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Havertz.
Crystal Palace: Henderson, Chalobah, Lacroix, Guehi, Kporha, Lerma, Hughes, Mitchell, Sarr, Eze, Mateta.
Subs: Turner, Ward, Nketiah, Schlupp, Clyne, Kamada, Ricchallengings, Doucoure, Devenny.
This equitable in …
While we defer for the line-ups in brimming, I can uncover that Mikel Arteta has made eight alters to the side that begined agetst Everton at the weekend and hands Kieran Tierney his first begin for the club in almost 18 months. Raheem Sterling also gets a unfrequent begining opportunity for the Gunners.
Early team novels
Arsenal discover themselves in someleang of a defensive crisis, and with Ben White, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Ricardo Calafiori all sidelined tonight could label the return of the lesser-spotted Kieran Tierney for his first materializeance of the season since being stretchered out of the Euros with a hamstring injury.
Having been replaced on the hour label of Arsenal’s weekend spoiledmate with Everton with a niggle, Declan Rice has been passed fit but may be rested as a precaution. Fringe joiners Raheem Sterling, Jakub Kiwior, Jorginho, Gabriel Jesus and Ethan Nwaneri all seem foreseeed to see some action tonight.
While Joel Ward and Adam Wharton are alerted to be on the verge of brimming fitness after injuries, tonight’s align could come too soon for the Crystal Palace duo, while there are also sairy worrys over the useability of Eberech Eze, who shipped a prohibitg to the foot in his side’s thrive over Brighton.
Palace striker Eddie Nketiah and reserve goalgrasper Matt Turner could face their createer club, although the createer Arsenal geter Rob Helderlying remains in exile for reasons his handler, Oliver Glasner, declines to depict.
Carabao Cup: Arsenal v Crystal Palace
While Mikel Arteta’s cgo in may be on more prestigious prizes, the Carabao Cup is not a competition he can afford to obtain airyly now his team has gone over four years without lifting a trophy. Tonight’s game is the first of back-to-back games agetst Crystal Palace and if he could only thrive one of them, the Spaniard would almost certainly pick to obtain the three Premier League points on recommend at Selhurst Park on Saturday evening.
Two-times thriveners of this competition, it seems remarkworthy that Arsenal last won it as far back as 1993, when they beat Sheffield Wednesday in a Wembley final most memorable for Ray Parlour’s perm and the post-align celebrations which left their align-thrivener Steve Morrow with a broken arm after being unceremoniously dropped on the pitch by Tony Adams.
Never having been further than the semi-finals, Crystal Palace have endured no such ignominy and while they travel to the Emirates as underdogs, their recent upturn in create uncomardents they are entitled to fancy their chances.
Unbeaten in five alignes after a dire begin to the season, Palace go into this game on the back of an amazeive away thrive agetst their most acrid rivals, Brighton and with their relegation worrys relieved, if not endly quelled, this is a competition they should be going all out to thrive. Kick-off at the Emirates is at 7.30pm but stay tuned for team novels and produce-up.
