Arsenal vs Watford: Preview and possible lineups

Arsenal team news: Sokaritis Papastathopoulos will face a late fitness test after a dead leg, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Laurent Koscielny and Ainsley Maitland-Niles are all still absent.

Watford team news: Christian Kabasele is available after his red card in the League Cup was overturned, Sebastian Prdol and Miguel Britos are unlikely to feature with slight knocks, Tom Clverly and Gerard Deulofeu remain out.

Arsenal manager Unai Emery: ''I think it's a big match and a rivalry match tomorrow. They want to win against us with good things tactically and good things also individually.

''But we know, tomorrow we need to play and we need also in the individual duels on the pitch, to win for step-by-step in the 90 minutes so we can impose our ideas, our job and our moment physically on the match.

''They are a team with very good players, very competitive and with the duels they are a very hard team.''

Watford manager Javi Gracia: ''I know they are a good team because they have good players. They are improving game by game, getting better results, in this moment they are in a good moment, and we know it will be a tough game for us.

“They keep many characteristics they had before because they are the same players like Bellerin and Montreal - players they had in the past and now they have adjusted only the positions of [Alexandre] Lacazette and [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang.'' 

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Did you know? Unai Emery and Javi Gracia where team mates at Real Sociedad in the 1995/6 season 

Predicted Arsenal team: Cech; Bellerin, Mustafi, Sokratis, Monreal; Ramsey, Xhaka, Torreira; Ozil, Aubameyang, Lacazette

Predicted Watford team: Foster; Janmaat, Cathcart, Mariappa, Holebas, Pereyra, Capoue, Doucoure, Hughes; Gray, Deeney

Predicted Result: 2-2