The Gunners have sat a point off top spot over the past 10 days with Liverpool leading the pack, but the north Londoners will hope to overhaul them when they play first this weekend. Mikel Arteta's side head to Bournemouth, where they've been rampant in recent seasons.
Martin Odegaard remains absent whilst there are still concerns over Bukayo Saka's fitness after he picked up a knock whilst away with England. Arsenal will have to manage their resources as they gear up for a three-game week due to the Champions League.
Here's the latest from the Emirates.
Saliba's France shocker
William Saliba has faced major criticism in France after enduring a horror show at the heart of defence. The Arsenal centre-half lined up in defence alongside Liverpool's Ibrahima Konate for Les Blues as they narrowly saw off Belgium.
Saliba's errors cost his team a goal and a penalty however. The 23-year-old conceded a spot kick for a foul on Lois Openda - only for Youri Tielemans to miss. Openda was then able to get in behind Saliba once again as he scored for Belgium to draw them level on the night.
Another blunder then resulted in Real Madrid's Aurelien Tchouameni picking up a second yellow card, leading to his dismissal. So Foot gave Saliba a 2/10 rating, the lowest mark of any player on the pitch, as they wrote: “Penalty, (yellow) card, loss of ball… Fortunately, Openda ended up not taking advantage of his elastic marking before half-time because he would have felt obliged to score this goal himself.”
He received the same rating from Didocu Sport who were scathing with their criticism as they labelled it his worst outing for his country.
