Arsenal travel to Champions Leicester City as the Gunners look for their first win of the Premier League season following a disastrous result at home to Liverpool. But for the fan, this will only make the game that much more enthralling. We lost the first match (2-1 against Hull) and now we have to fight to get something good.
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With Danny Drinkwater expected to follow suit and N’Golo Kante’s move to Chelsea the only major departure, Mahrez believes Leicester have the strength to challenge for honours again this season.
However, in the end, last season’s PFA Players’ Player of the Year penned a new four-year deal.
Unsurprisingly, Leicester have no injury concerns to worry about and Robert Huth is set to return from a one-game suspension. His presence in back of the Leicester formation can be very helpful to tighten their defenses.
“We spoke together last season and also in pre-season”. Arsenal were in pursuit of the England worldwide and were nearly certain to get his signature before the Euros in the summer.
Champions Leicester City were shocked by managerless Hull as the curtains of the English Premier League were raised last Saturday.
Arsenal did the double over Leicester last season, inflicting two of their three league defeats with a 5-2 away win and a last-gasp 2-1 victory at the Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal have not made any new signings so far in this summer window other than the little known 21-year-old Japanese striker, Takuma Asano. They need to be capable of challenging and will need to be to show if they can be considered as one of the top teams in England. Hopefully Arsene Wenger has that in the back of his mind, too. But basically with Laurent Koscielny I have no choice! Chambers scored against Liverpool last Sunday: Problem is, he was in a defence that let in four.
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The Leicester striker chose to reject Arsenal earlier this summer after the Gunners made a £20m offer for the centre-forward, who scored 24 times in 36 Premier League games last term.
