Arsenal will play host to Newcastle United on Saturday afternoon.
Sky Sports pundit Paul Merson wrote his regular prediction column for Sky Sports, and predicted the outcome of Saturday’s Premier League clash between the Gunners and the Magpies at the Emirates.
Both sides head into the game on the back of poor runs of form, with Arsenal having taken just two points from their last three league games, and Newcastle losing six of their last seven
Arsene Wenger’s men will surely have written off their chances of winning the Premier League title, with 19 points separating them and league leaders Manchester City, and the Frenchman is once agin starting to receive heavy criticism from the Gunners faithful.
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Rafa Benitez’s side, meanwhile, sit precariously in 16th position in the table, a solitary point point clear of 18th placed Crystal Palace, and the Spaniard really has his work cut-out, if he is to guide his side to a top 10 finish this term.
Merson, though, predicted a heavy defeat for the Toon, when writing his regular prediction column for Sky Sports, claiming that if the Gunners could have hand-picked a game, it would have been this one:
“Nothing has changed at Arsenal. We are 17 games into the season and they are below Burnley. That is embarrassing. You can understand after five or six games, if someone gets off to a flying start, but this is 17 games in. I don’t know where Arsenal are going. I have said before that Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil will probably stay but now I think they have to go because they are doing nothing. Still, I expect them to win this game. If they could have handpicked any team to play it would be Newcastle, who have completely gone.”
Prediction: Arsenal 4-0 Newcastle
The game kicks off at 15:00 on Saturday afternoon, and both sides will be desperate for all three points, but for very different reasons.
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