Premier League · Sun 18 Oct, 16:30 BST
City Ground, Nottingham
Forest sit deep, break fast and make the City Ground loud. Arsenal come off a Champions League night with Bayern next. Pick the eleven, decide who rests, and see whether the plan holds.
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Drag a player onto the pitch, or tap a player and then a shirt. I'll tell you what I think of every one.
Every pick and every change of plan moves these numbers.
Our predicted Arsenal starting XI for Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal in a 4-3-3: the strongest eleven for each position from the current squad, with injured and unavailable players left out. Squad information as of 26 September 2026. Looking for the Arsenal lineup today? The confirmed Arsenal line up is announced about an hour before kick-off; until then, this is the prediction.
Disagree with the prediction? Use the lineup builder above to pick your own starting XI and formation, then play the match to see how it goes.
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Arsenal are predicted to line up in a 4-3-3: David Raya; Piero Hincapie, Gabriel Magalhaes, Ezri Konsa, Jurrien Timber; Declan Rice, Martin Zubimendi, Bruno Guimaraes; Eberechi Eze, Viktor Gyokeres, Bukayo Saka. Squad information as of 26 September 2026.
Sunday 18 October 2026, 16:30 BST, at City Ground, Nottingham (Premier League).
William Saliba (injured: back fracture, out until November at the earliest).
About an hour before kick-off. Until then this is the predicted Arsenal line-up, and you can pick your own starting XI on this page and play the match.
A pre-match game. Nottingham Forest v Arsenal has not been played yet, so there is no real result to match — you choose the Arsenal eleven, place every player wherever you like, set the approach, and the match runs on the spot.
This is not a prediction game. Nobody is keeping score and there is nothing to get right — the match has not been played yet, so there is no correct answer to find. Pick the eleven you would pick, or the eleven nobody would dare, and see what your team does with it.
This game comes down once the real match has finished. The full simulation — where you take the touchline in a match that really happened and change how it actually ended — lives on MatchRewrite permanently. Browse the clubs.
Before this one kicks off, play the matches that have already happened involving Nottingham Forest and Arsenal. Each one is the real line-ups and the real result, and you make the calls that decided it.
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