Arsenal vs Southampton LIVE commentary: Ramsdale returns to Emirates as Saints face tough task – Kick-off time, team news and talkSPORT coverage

Arsenal will welcome Southampton to the Emirates this weekend looking to continue their unbeaten start to the season, live exclusively on talkSPORT 2.

Only the gunners and rivals for the title city ​​of manchester They are yet to lose this campaign, with both teams winning four and drawing two of their first six games.

Leaves Mikel Arteta's team in good shape, with a 2-0 victory Paris Saint Germain in the middle of the week preparing them perfectly for the visit of the saints.

Russell Martin is desperate for three points as his men are still waiting for their first top-flight win, sitting 19th in the table.

They were beaten by Bournemouth the last time, succumbing to their fifth defeat in six outings and seeing their average of goals conceded per game rise to two.

It's a record that will leave Arsenal rubbing their hands for a potential big win at the Emirates.

Arsenal vs Southampton: Ready for the sack?

He Southampton The hierarchy is divided over the club's poor start to the season, talkSPORT understands.

Manager Martin is under increasing pressure from owner Dragan Solak after his newly promoted team managed just one point from their first six matches.

Saints are also the Premier League's lowest scorers after scoring just three goals and going down 3-1 to south coast rivals Bournemouth on Monday night.

Martin retains the support of sporting director Rasmus Ankersen, who sought out the former Swansea manager and is backing him to turn his fortunes around.

It leaves Martin in a precarious position ahead of this clash against Arsenalwith another loss piling on more pressure.

But anything short of a defeat at the Emirates should be seen as a very positive thing.

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• Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 28 home league games against Southampton (19 wins, 9 draws) since a 1-0 defeat in November 1987. Only against Fulham (a current run of 31) have they had a run longest unbeaten run at home in their league history.
• Southampton's 24 away games in the Premier League against Arsenal is the most games that a team has visited another without winning in the history of the competition (D8 L16).

Arsenal vs Southampton: team news

Arsenal will remain without a captain Martin Odegaard.

He is not expected to return for a while yet as he continues to recover from his ankle problem. Oleksandr Zinchenko and Takehiro Tomiyasu be left out too.

ben white He missed the PSG game in midweek and is a doubt for this one, but Mikel Merino can make his Premier League debut after returning from injury.

Jurrien Timber was withdrawn at halftime on Tuesday night, however, he is not expected to be sidelined this weekend.

As for Southampton, the goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale He will face his former club again.

Ramsdale lost his place David Rayá as Gunners No.1 last season under Arteta and was forced to move to first-team football.

He will hope to surpass his former team with the Saints, who could bring in Joe Aribo, Ross Stewart and Ben Brereton Díaz in the starting eleven.

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• Kai Havertz has scored six goals in his last six Premier League home games for Arsenal, scoring in each of his last four at the Emirates. The last player to score in five consecutive home league games for the Gunners was Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in September 2019.
• Southampton's Aaron Ramsdale could become the ninth goalkeeper to play against Arsenal in the Premier League, having previously played for them in the competition. The only one of the previous eight to keep a clean sheet in his first such match against the Gunners is Emiliano Martínez, in the 3-0 win at the Emirates with Aston Villa in November 2020.

Arsenal vs Southampton: What has been said?

Kai Havertz is once again starring for Arsenal this season, scoring his fifth goal of the season in midweek against Paris Saint-Germain.

Havertz has also scored in his last three games and will aim to continue his impressive form against Southampton.

His coach, Arteta, has praised him and has described Germain as one of the main players in the Gunners squad today.

Following their 2-0 win on Tuesday night, he said: “He (Havertz) has been incredible.

“His football brain, his way of understanding space, his timing, he brings people together. His work ethic is incredible and now he is a real threat around the box.

“He's one of our main players right now.”

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• Arsenal are winless in their last three Premier League meetings against Southampton (D2 L1), drawing both games the last time the team met in 2022-23.
• Southampton have lost 82 of their 139 Premier League away games against London teams (59%), the highest defeat rate of any of the 12 teams to have played more than 100 away games in the capital . In fact, only Everton (91) and Newcastle (89) have lost more in total than the Saints.

Arsenal vs Southampton: talkSPORT coverage

This Premier League clash will take place on Saturday, October 5.

The start in the Emirates is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.

talkSPORT 2 will have EXCLUSIVE live coverage of the game hosted by Faye Carruthers.

Commentary will come from Ian Danter and the former Arsenal winger. Perry Groves.

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