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Arsenal vs. Stoke City
English Premier League
Saturday, December 6, 2014
7AM PT/10AM ET/3PM BT (otherwise known as The Way It Should Always Be)
Britannia Stadium, Stoke-On-Trent
Current League Form ARS WWinning streak! | Stoke LLLosing streak!
US TV: NBC Sports Network | Worldwide TV info livesoccer.tv
Since Arsenal and Stoke are going to all the trouble of having a match, the least we can do is talk about it, right? Arsenal are rounding slowly into form, and a struggling-at-home Stoke side seem ripe for the picking. Fortunately, no Arsenal players were injured between yesterday afternoon and this morning; what remains to be seen is if young Ainsley Maitland-Niles made the bench or whether he'll be waiting for another day to get his first runout with the senior squad.
Not gonna lie - beating Stoke always feels good. So I'd like to feel good today, please, Arsenal. It's the holidays, after all.
Lineups:
#Arsenal team to play Stoke: Martinez, Bellerin, Chambers, Mertesacker, Gibbs, Flamini, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis, Cazorla, Giroud
— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) December 6, 2014
#Arsenal subs: Szczesny, Koscielny, Ajayi, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Podolski, Welbeck #SCFCvAFC
— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) December 6, 2014
#scfc Starting XI vs Arsenal: Begovic; Bardsley, Shawcross (c), Muniesa, Pieters; Nzonzi, Cameron; Diouf, Bojan, Walters; Crouch
— Stoke City FC (@stokecity) December 6, 2014
#scfc Substitutes vs Arsenal: Butland, Huth, Whelan, Ireland, Adam, Assaidi, Shenton (Wilson + Arnautovic injured). Come on Stoke!
— Stoke City FC (@stokecity) December 6, 2014