Pepe, Holding And Elneny To Start, Saka At Wingback: Arsenal’s Predicted XI To Play Chelsea

Pepe, Holding And Elneny To Start, Saka At Wingback: Arsenal’s Predicted XI To Play Chelsea

After Arsenal fell to their third straight defeat versus Southampton at the weekend, we brainstormed a few ideas as to how the Gunners could turn things around in order to get a result against Chelsea.

Manager Mikel Arteta actually masterminded a 1-0 win at Stamford Bridge in May last year by making some significant changes to his system and that has really inspired our thinking here.


A switch to a back three, using split strikers and a false nine is the solution we have come up with and that is reflected in how we have chosen our starting eleven for tomorrow night.

Press the next page as we go through our Arsenal lineup to face Chelsea.

David Tully

David Tully

David has worked as a football reporter for the last fifteen years. Having started as an intern at Snack Media, he then went on to become a freelancer, working on various different sites. At the start of 2023, he took up his current role as content writer for National World's Football News Network.