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Carabao Cup Preview: Arsenal v West Brom By Jonny Bray Arsenal will get this year's bid to win a domestic cup underway tomorrow against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns in the Carabao Cup. The Baggies are adapting to life in the Championship after being relegated from the Premier League at the end of last season.   However, the Gunners can expect very opposition to the side that lost 3-1 to Mikel Arteta's team at The Emirates back in May.   Arsenal need some momentum after a difficult start to the season in the league, and a solid opening to this year's Carabao Cup campaign could be vital to getting things back on track.     What can Arsenal expect from West Brom?     West Brom are enjoying an extraordinarily exciting start to life back in the Sky Bet Championship.   They currently sit in joint second alongside a resurgent Stoke City and a Fulham side that has been talked about as one of the best Championship sides in recent me...

Five players Arsenal could target from the Premier League’s relegated sides By Oscar Maung-Haley With Arsenal looking to find a route back to into the Premier League’s elite, here are five players they could target from the three relegated sides to help improve their fortunes. Matheus Pereira The first name on the list is perhaps the best of the bunch. Matheus Pereira, 25, scored 11 Premier League goals for West Brom this season and perhaps the most impressive part about his haul is that he had never previously managed double-digit goals in his career, even when West Brom were in the Championship a season prior. Alongside his goals, Pereira also registered six Premier League assists, giving him 17 goal contributions for the 2020-21 campaign. For reference, that puts Pereira in the same conversation as Kevin De Bruyne (18) and Marcus Rashford (20) when it comes to combined goals and assists. And after showing off his quality this season, the Brazilian is hardly likely to want to stick a...

Has Ainsley Maitland-Niles done enough at weekend opponents West Brom to earn an Arsenal future? By Peter White Thursday night’s Europa League exit may have all but ended Arsenal’s miserable 2020/21 campaign, but attentions must quickly turn back to domestic duty with a trip to West Brom ahead on Sunday evening.  Tottenham’s defeat at Leeds on Saturday may have offered the Emirates faithful a small crumb of comfort, but three points for Marcelo Bielsa’s Yorkshiremen saw them leapfrog the Gunners, who now sit tenth and seven points off an unlikely top-six finish.  A place in next season’s European competition should ultimately prove too tough an ask with just four games of the season left, but with a game in hand over Spurs, Mikel Arteta’s men need to keep fighting to the death.  The Baggies - ten points adrift of safety - may be destined for an immediate return to the Championship, but boss Sam Allardyce likes nothing more than getting one over the biggest names in the bu...