Unai Emery<\/a>\u2019s Villa side have three major injury concerns. Perhaps the biggest is former Arsenal goalkeeper Emi Martinez, who pulled out of the win at Brighton in the warm-up with a lower back injury. <\/p>\nOtherwise, it is Ross Barkley and Tyrone Mings who are absent. Barkley has a knee injury that could keep him out until February, while Mings is likely to be sidelined until January with his hamstring issue.<\/p>\n
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Injury scare: Declan Rice is hoping to be fit for Arsenal\u2019s trip to Villa Park<\/p>\n
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Mosquera, meanwhile, came off just before half-time with an ankle issue.<\/p>\n
He did, however, describe Mosquera\u2019s issue as \u201cmore complicated\u201d, while reports now suggest there are fears that he could be missing for six weeks.<\/p>\n
William Saliba and Leandro Trossard could both return on Saturday, though Gabriel and Kai Havertz are still out.<\/p>\n
Aston Villa vs Arsenal prediction<\/strong><\/p>\nTrips to Villa Park have produced mixed results for the Gunners. <\/p>\n
Their most recent visit was a fruitful one, emerging with a 2-0 win in August last year. <\/p>\n
At the Emirates, however, they were held to a 2-2 draw. <\/p>\n
Villa are often tricky customers, and are the form side in the division – excluding Arsenal – having won six games on the spin. <\/p>\n
This should be a highly entertaining game with both sides throwing caution to the wind. <\/p>\n
Head to head (h2h) history and results<\/strong><\/p>\nAston Villa vs Arsenal match odds<\/strong><\/p>\nOdds via Betfair (subject to change).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gunners sit five points clear at the summit, having restored their cushion with a 2-0 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[102,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-615890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115672591238811301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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