​Arsenal v Fugham, Premier League 3rd round tie, scheduled for Saturday 26th August from 17:00 at the Emirates Stadium in London, will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 2, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport 3.

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Arsenal start with their first chance in the London derby against Fulham and will be hoping for a third straight league win against a team that has just lost its top scorer.

Arsenal picked up two wins in the first two rounds without impressing, 2-1 at home to Nottingham Firest and 1-0 at London rivals Crystal Palace (a match in which they played with a man less from the 67th minute), after in the official debut of the season won the Super Cup of England (Community Shield) after 1-1 and 4-1 on penalties with the champion Manchester City.

Mikel Arteta, who brought three important players to the team this summer, Declan Rice from West Ham United (116 million euros), Kai Havertz from Chelsea (75 million euros) and Jurrien Timber from Ajax, continues to work on the technical bench of the Gunners. (40 million euros), and the only relevant loss is the departure of Granit Xhaka to Bayer Leverkusen (25 million euros).

Fulham made a fine start to the season with a 1-0 win at Everton, but then lost the London derby 3-0 at home to Brentford, a game in which they played with a man down from the 64th minute .

Fulham kept Marco Silva as head coach (the Portuguese was appointed in 2021 and also coached Watford and Everton in England), and brought in Adama Traore (free from contract) and Raul Jimenez at squad level (p seven million euros), both from Wolverhampton, and Calvin Bassey (22.5 million euros) from Ajax, but lost Aleksandar Mitrovic (111 goals in 206 matches, in all competitions – in five and a half seasons), went to Al – Hilal for 52 million euros.

Last season in the Premier League, Arsenal won both legs against Fulham, 2-1 at home on the tour and 3-0 away at Craven Cottage in the second leg (by the way, the Gunners have never lost to their London rivals since 2012).

Superbet offers odds of 1.62 on Halftime/Final prediction 1/1: the home team lead at halftime and win at the end of Arsenal v Fulham.

Arsenal – Fulham 1/1
Quota 1.62

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