Patrick Vieira hosts former side as Gabriel Jesus set to make competitive Gunners debut in Premier League opener – team news, kick-off time and how to follow

Arsenal will kickstart the brand new Premier League season with a London derby as soon as once more as they journey to Crystal Palace dwell on talkSPORT!

The Gunners will likely be eager to keep away from a repeat of their antics on the opening day of final marketing campaign once they suffered a humiliating defeat to Brentford.

That consequence was adopted by one other two defeats to cap a depressing begin to the season however there’s renewed optimism beneath Mikel Arteta this time round.

Arsenal’s new stars Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko have hit the bottom operating and the club boasted a perfect record in pre-season.

Nonetheless, Palace will show their largest take a look at to see how far they’ve come, with the Eagles having misplaced simply certainly one of their final eight Premier League conferences with Arsenal.

Crystal Palace vs Arsenal: talkSPORT commentary

The opening match of the 2022/23 Premier League season will happen on Friday, August 5.

talkSPORT can have dwell and unique protection of the sport at Selhurst Park which is scheduled to kick off at 8pm.

Adrian Durham will likely be your presenter whereas commentary will come from Sam Matterface and former England striker Dean Ashton.

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Crystal Palace vs Arsenal: Crew information

Patrick Vieira is combating a goalkeeping downside forward of the go to of his former facet following Jack Butland’s damaged hand.

Sam Johnstone is closing in on a return from a thigh damage but when he fails to make the squad then veteran Vicente Guaita is predicted to start out.

Arsenal in the meantime have been with out the identical quartet of Kieran Tierney, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Fabio Vieira and Emile Smith Rowe for weeks.

However Arteta remained optimistic about their well being following the 6-0 win over Sevilla, saying: “They’ll need to undergo what they should this week after which hopefully we’ll have them accessible.

“They’re missing minutes however we’ll need to construct that up like some other damage that we get in the course of the season.”

Crystal Palace vs Arsenal: What has been stated?

Eberechi Eze, who bagged an audacious help in Palace’s 4-2 win over Montpellier, urged his facet to copy that efficiency on Friday.

“I haven’t seen it again but,” he stated post-match to Palace TV.

“It was enjoyable in the present day, we performed nicely and that’s the kind of efficiency we have to put in for the sport on Friday, which is the essential one.

“It’s been enjoyable, enjoying in [centre] midfield. I performed there a couple of occasions and it’s the place you will get on the ball, play and get touches on the ball. That’s what I wish to do.”

Crystal Palace vs Arsenal: Match details

• Gabriel Magalhães is the one present Arsenal participant to have scored for the membership of their opening sport of a Premier League marketing campaign, netting on his debut at Fulham in 2020-21.
• Gabriel Jesus may make his Premier League debut for Arsenal on this sport – the Gunners have had extra totally different Brazilian goalscorers than some other facet within the competitors (11). In the meantime, the previous Man Metropolis man has been concerned in seven targets in his final seven league video games (6 targets, 1 help).
• None of Arsenal’s final 17 Premier League video games has ended degree (W11 L6). It’s the longest ongoing run with no draw within the competitors among the many 20 present sides, whereas solely as soon as have the Gunners had an extended such run (25 between January and October 2018).
• Crystal Palace ended the 2021-22 Premier League marketing campaign unbeaten in six dwelling video games (W3 D3), whereas holding a clear sheet in every of the final 5. The Eagles final had an extended unbeaten dwelling run within the top-flight between March-August 1992, whereas they’ve by no means saved six consecutive dwelling clear sheets within the high division.
• Arsenal have had extra gamers despatched off of their opening sport of a Premier League marketing campaign than some other facet (6), most not too long ago Laurent Koscielny towards Aston Villa in 2013-14. Crystal Palace have had only one such crimson card, although this did come towards Arsenal on the opening day of the 2014-15 marketing campaign.
• Arsenal have misplaced their opening Premier League match in 5 of their final 9 seasons (W4) after shedding their first match in simply certainly one of their 19 campaigns previous to this run; the Gunners misplaced 2-0 to Brentford final time period.
• Crystal Palace have received their opening top-flight league match in solely 5 of their earlier 22 seasons (D7 L10), though they’ve received two of their final 4 (D1 L1), beating Fulham in 2018-19 and Southampton in 2020-21.
• Crystal Palace v Arsenal would be the fifth time in top-flight historical past the season has kicked off on a Friday evening, with the house facet successful on every of the earlier 4 events – Arsenal 4-3 Leicester in 2017-18, Man Utd 2-1 Leicester in 2018-19, Liverpool 4-1 Norwich in 2019-20 and Brentford 2-0 Arsenal final season.
• That is the third consecutive season Arsenal are beginning their Premier League marketing campaign with a London derby. They received 3-0 at Fulham in 2020-21, earlier than shedding 2-0 at Brentford in 2021-22’s season opener.
• Crystal Palace have misplaced simply certainly one of their final eight Premier League conferences with Arsenal (W2 D5). Following a 3-0 win in April, the Eagles want to win consecutive league video games towards the Gunners for the primary time of their historical past.