Arsenal v Palace

Emirates Stadium, Sunday 4.00pm

Jeffrey Schlupp

Team news

Crystal Palace midfielder Jeffrey Schlupp sustained an ankle injury against Manchester City last week and will miss the rest of the season. Cheikhou Kouyate or Max Meyer will likely replace him in the line-up. Schlupp joins Mamadou Sakho (knee) and James Tomkins (groin) on the injured list.

Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey suffered a hamstring injury against Napoli on Thursday and won't play. Granit Xhaka (hip) and Denis Suarez (groin) will be assessed, while Sokratis is serving the second of a two-match ban. Hector Bellerin and Rob Holding (both knee) plus Danny Welbeck (ankle) are out.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"I commend [Unai Emery] because he took on a very difficult job, to take over after someone like Arsene Wenger, who had been such an incredible figure and achieved such fantastic things at the club, for such a long period of time.

"Therefore, whoever comes in and steps into those shoes is filling enormous shoes and it is never going to be easy for him.

"I think he must be very, very pleased with the way things have gone there for him, he has been able to step into those shoes, he has been able to mould a team, play the football that I guess he wants his team to play and it has been very successful football."

Unai Emery

"[Palace] were playing with a big performance last year, but this season they started with more doubt in their performances. But they have very big players, a very experienced coach and they are taking good results away from home.

"They won against Manchester City, so on Sunday we have a lot of respect to them, to their players and to their coach. We want to impose - in our stadium - our spirit and personality and our ideas, our gameplan and the first idea against them, to beat them, is respect."

Arsenal - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
4th	33	20	6	7	66

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
28/10/2018	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 2	Arsenal
20/01/2018	League	Arsenal	4 - 1	Crystal Palace
28/12/2017	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 3	Arsenal
10/04/2017	League	Crystal Palace	3 - 0	Arsenal
01/01/2017	League	Arsenal	2 - 0	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Palace 2-2 Arsenal

Sunday October 28 2018

Palace: Hennessey, Tomkins, Sakho, van Aanholt, Wan-Bissaka, Milivojevic, McArthur (Meyer, 61), Kouyate (Puncheon, 88), Zaha, Ayew (Sorloth, 64), Townsend

Subs not used: Riedewald, Guaita, Schlupp, Kelly

Goals: Milivojevic (pen 45, pen 83)

Arsenal: Leno, Holding, Xhaka, Bellerin (Lichtsteiner, 45), Mustafi, Aubameyang (Ramsey, 78), Ozil (Welbeck, 68), Torreira, Guendouzi, Iwobi, Lacazette

Subs not used: Mkhitaryan, Papastathopoulos, Cech, Smith-Rowe

Goals: Xhaka (51), Aubameyang (56)