Arsenal vs Manchester City – FA Cup semi-final
-7.45pm kick-off from Wembley
Team news
Arsenal: Martinez, Mustafi, Luiz, Tierney, Bellerin, Ceballos, Xhaka, Maitland-Niles, Pepe, Lacazette, Aubameyang
Subs: Macey, Holding, Sokratis, Kolasinac, Torreira, Smith, Willock, Nelson, Saka
Man City: Ederson, Walker, Garcia, Laporte, Mendy, Gundogan, D Silva (C), De Bruyne, Mahrez, Jesus, Sterling
Subs: Carson, Stones, Zinchenko, Bernardo, Rodrigo, Fernandinho, Cancelo, Otamendi, Foden
Match preview
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola believes Mikel Arteta is the right man to help Arsenal return to their glory days.
“It’s one of the elite clubs in English football of the last 20 or 30 years,” said Guardiola.
“I’m pretty sure [Arteta is] the right person to bring them back to the position of before.
“From the outside – maybe I am wrong – but what I see in their games, how they celebrate, how they fight for every single ball, they are creating something special for this club. Everybody fights for each other.
“I have a feeling he is creating something unique and if he can be supported by the club in terms of investment, and get the players that they need, they’ll be a contender for the next years.”
Arsenal have lost their last seven games to City but Arteta is keen for them to change that record at Wembley tonight.
Asked whether he was worried about the record, Arteta replied: “Yes, but if I look at the trends as well before we played Liverpool, with the calendar year or the last two calendar years that they’ve had, you get depressed.
“What I need now is energy to transmit to my players, belief and it’s the FA Cup – we have a lot of experience here and we have a history related to that. Let’s go for it.
“I want to focus on what we want to do. If I worry too much about them, it’s not the message that I want to send to the players.”
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