Arsenal vs Barcelona: Pre-season pleasant – LIVE!
The Gunners face a mouth-watering pre-season pleasant in Los Angeles tonight as they tackle the Catalan giants of their fourth summer time take a look at. Arsenal had been crushed twice by Manchester United final day trip – each in regular time and by way of a penalty shootout – however Mikel Arteta is not going to be involved regardless of one other big switch outlay.
Declan Rice and Kai Havertz, purchased for a mixed £170million, have been quiet of their early outings however Rice curiously isn’t concerned in any respect tonight. Arsenal face a Barcelona aspect who’re embarking on their first run-out of the summer time and have been hit by an sickness within the squad. Ilkay Gundogan will play his first minutes since signing from Manchester City and Oriol Romeu is making a second debut for the membership.
Will Arsenal file a uncommon win over Barcelona? For Arteta it will be a press release consequence, towards a former membership, forward of what’s anticipated to be a large season in north London. Follow the large pleasant reside beneath by way of our devoted match weblog, protecting each second from the SoFi Stadium pleasant.
Live updates
Arsenal vs Barcelona
quarter-hour till kick-off now on the spectacular SoFi Stadium.
Michael Bridge of Sky Sports says on Twitter that the problem of issues of grass laid over turf is what brought about the delay to kick-off.
Where’s Rice?
Declan Rice and Folarin Balogun are each lacking from the Arsenal squad.
No phrase on Rice’s health, whereas Balogun’s future on the membership continues to be unsure.
Both are with the squad. Balogun has posted a video on his Instagram web page at SoFi Stadium and Rice has been pictured with Mohamed Elneny and the injured Oleksandr Zinchenko.
Arsenal crew news
They took their time, however Arsenal have lastly confirmed their beginning line-up.
Trossard shakes off an harm to start out, which is implausible news for the Gunners, whereas Timber and White take up the full-back slots.
It’s a midfield of Partey, Havertz and Odegaard.
Any crew news hints on this picture?
Not certain what Arsenal’s social media crew are doing however Arteta is chatting to Xavi.
Kick-off delayed
The recreation has been pushed again by 36 minutes. No rationalization as to why, although which will clarify why Arsenal are but to substantiate their crew.
Still no crew news from Arsenal. Trust Mikel Arteta to play thoughts video games in a pleasant.
Barcelona crew news
So, Ilkay Gundogan does get to make his debut, towards a crew who tried to signal him this summer time.
Oriol Romeo makes his second debut for the membership, whereas ex-Chelsea pair Marcos Alonso and Andreas Christensen are in defence.
Barcelona XI
It’s a debut for Gundogan!