Arsenal lineup vs. Aston Villa: Projected starting XI, team news, injury list with Declan Rice a doubt originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Arsenal head to in-form Aston Villa on Saturday hoping to put further pressure on the chasing pack in the Premier League title race.

League leaders Arsenal meet up with mid-table Brentford today in this exciting English Premier League showdown.

Chelsea vs Arsenal will kick off at 11:30 a.m. ET/ 8:30 a.m. PT in the United States. The match will kick off at 4:30 p.m. local time in London, England, at Stamford Bridge. The match will be available to watch across select TV channels in the United States and the UK.

Arsenal have beaten Brentford 2-0 in the Premier League, extending their lead atop the table to five points over Manchester City. Mikel Merino headed the hosts into the lead in the 11th minute, scoring for the second time in four days. The lead remained 1-0 until second-half stoppage time, when Bukayo Saka scored to put the game to bed.

English Premier League leader Arsenal is back at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday to kick off a big day of league action with a match against 12th-place Brentford. The match is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.

There was another win for Arsenal in the Premier League, and more misery for Liverpool and its under-fire manager Arne Slot.

Arsenal responded really well from the body blow that was going behind 10-man Chelsea. It took 11-minutes for Mikel “Strikey Mikey” Merino to even the score. Most of the credit for the goal belongs to Bukayo Saka. He beat Marc Cucurella multiple times on the move and picked out the Spaniard with a lovely cross.

Mikel Arteta had plenty of praise for Ben White after the right-back’s Player of the Match performance against Brentford on Wednesday night.Photo by Michael Steele/Getty ImagesArsenal manager Mikel