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Arsenal and Bournemouth meet at Emirates Stadium in a 13th round match of the Barclays Premier League. These teams have met only twice recently: on 7-02-2016, ending with Arsenal winning by (0-2), and on 28-12-2015, ending with Arsenal winning by (2-0).
Arsenal
The home team is currently in 4th place with 25 points earned after 7 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. In the penultimate match, they drew at home to Tottenham for (1-1). In the last match, he tied it out for Manchester United for (1-1). The team arrives at this meeting after a draw at home with Paris Saint Germain by (2-2). For the championship, Arsenal won 11 points in 18 chances, after 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in their last 6 games at their stadium.
In this competition, he has not lost any of his last 11 matches. Defensive solidity has not been his strong point, having conceded goals in 7 of the last 10 games, but his attack has regularly scored as he has scored goals in 9 of the last 10 matches in this competition.
Arsenal enter this round after a 2-2 draw at home to PSG in the Champions League. Similar to the opponents of this round, Arsenal tends to play 4-3-3, favoring a style of game of constant transitions, where the three most advanced men are Iwobi, Giroud and Walcott. The two great qualities of the home team are the way they manage to change a disadvantage and the ease of creating dangerous situations. The Arsenal manager will not be able to rely on Bellerin, Santi Cazorla, Akpom, Lucas Pérez, Mertesacker and Welbeck for being injured.
Bournemouth
After 4 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses, the visiting team is in 10th place, having won 15 points. In the last match, they beat Stoke out (0-1), after having lost at home in a game against Sunderland (1-2). In the championship, Bournemouth won 5 points in 18 chances, after 1 win, 2 draws and 3 defeats in their last 6 away games. His attack has scored regularly, as he has managed to achieve in 7 of the last 10 games in this competition. In 12 games in this competition, he suffered the first goal 4 times and never managed to turn the score.
Bournemouth enter this motivated round after a 0-1 away win at the Stoke pitch: Aké, 26 minutes, scored the only goal of the game. Similar to the opponents of this round, the visiting team should play a 4-3-3 tactical system to try to take advantage of the counterattacks. In any case, Bournemouth is expected to take a more defensive stance, with the aim of not giving spaces to its opponent. The coach of Bournemouth will not be able to count on Surman and Cook for being in period of injury.
Prediction: Arsenal 1/1 HT / FT @ 1.55