Arsenal vs West Ham prediction, team news and preview as Jack Wilshere looks to come back and haunt Unai Emery
Capital clubs are looking to pick up their first win of they season when they meet at The Emirates on Saturday
SOMETHING has to give when Arsenal host West Ham on Saturday.
New bosses Unai Emery and Manuel Pellegrini have failed to pick up a point in their two opening Premier League games in charge.
Here is everything you need to know about Saturday's 3pm clash at The Emirates...
Key men
Henrikh Mkhitaryan netted one goal and laid on another in Arsenal's 3-2 defeat at Chelsea on Saturday.
The Armenian has come up with three goals and five assists in his last 13 games for the Gunners and his attacking threat should be key to their hopes against the Hammers.
Lukasz Fabianski heads back to his former club with the aim of trying to keep a clean sheet that would helped the Hammers get a first point on the board.
Mkhitaryan and the likes Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are likely to make the Pole a busy man on Saturday.
Best of enemies
Emery told Jack Wilshere over the summer that his game time would be limited if he stayed at Arsenal and the midfielder chose to end his 17-year stay by swapping north for east London.
Wilshere will be desperate to show that his skills are missed at The Emirates.
The stat that matters
West Ham have just one win in 22 league and cup encounters against Arsenal since the start of the 2007/08 season.
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Likely lineups
Arsenal (4-2-3-1): Cech - Bellerin, Mustafi, Sokratis, Monreal - Guendouzi, Torreira - Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Iwobi - Aubameyang.
West Ham (4-3-3): Fabianski - Zabaleta, Ogbonna, Balbuena, Masuaku - Noble, Sanchez, Wilshere - Yarmolenko, Arnautovic, Felipe Anderson.
What the bosses say
Emery admits he is already feeling the heat after two defeats. He explained: "After the first two matches, we have two defeats and we need to win this match against West Ham.
"We are thinking in our way and about our work to create our ideas and our system on Saturday with our supporters at the Emirates.
"It’s very important to show them a better performance than in the two first matches."
Pellegrini has called for the Hammers' fans to stick with their team after the two losses.
Last weekend he mentioned that plenty had gone before full-time of the loss to Bournemouth. Today he said: "It's not a criticism of the fans, it's how much the team needs them.
"I perfectly understand if you are losing four or 5-1 then you might leave early to go to your house but at 2-1, we need all of us to be together. Everyone."
Prediction
3-1 to Arsenal. Home advantage and their marginally superior firepower should be enough for the Gunners to secure their first win of the season.