Arsenal were excellent already in the preseason, and in continued in the actual season where they have now all home games so far.

Yet I am going against them with a team who were a failure so far.

Basically there are two reasons for that. The Qatar break did come for a bad time for Arsenal, and Qatar also brought important and bad injury news, especially in the form of Gabriel Jesus who was the key attacking man. Secondly, Arsenal lost the good run.

At West Ham it is all the contrary, the needed the break as the results were bad, they have been able to rest with almost a full squad, and their injury situation is getting better. The table of missing players below is not complete, but let us have a look:

Arsenal might also be without superb French centreback Saliba.

Moroccan Aguerd who impressed at Qatar is out from West Ham side, and centreback Zouma is another confirmed absentee, but all doubts of the trio Cresswell, Scamacca, and Cresswell might well be included in the squad. Coach Moyes said he is happy with his team spirit and morale, and during the break they for example won Udinese by 1-3.

What about the performances, results, and xG-data?

Arsenal are on top of the league, deservedly as they have gone hand in hand with Man City. However, they have about 6 points too many compared to expectations, which means they have lucky, or clinical finishers, or both

Looking at individual statistics one comes up, Gabriel Jesus.

He has scored 5 goals, there have been expectations for 10 goals, and now all this threat is missing. It is to be noted that Arsenal this season has built their chances very close to the goal and the longest distance of a pass to a goal has been 21 meters! Jesus has been elementary also in this build-up, but Odegaard, Saka and Martinelli definitely can bring the ball close to the area.

There are many similarities to Arteta's Arsenal with Pep Guardiola's Man City, and it is no wonder as Arteta has watched him closely and learned everything there is to learn about Pep and football.

Take a look at the passmaps of City (left) and Arsenal (right)! The bad thing for Arsenal is that if I do know how they attack line-by-line with short passes and a strong attempt to enter the Golden Zone, so does also Moyes and he has done his homework!

Finally,

West Ham may be in the bottom-5 with actual results, but they have unlucky as the performance data places them at 9th position, and they have similar point expectations than Liverpool, Man Utd, Brentford and Villa. The scoring has been a problem and even if is a crucial area it is also partly down by good luck, they should have some 5-6 goals more, especially from open play.

All in all I have to say I like Arsenal, but bettingwise I do not like a team who have not benefited from the break but the opposite, who miss their key element in the attack, and who face a local rival who made a good use of the break and are far from that bad as the results show.

Thank you for reading this my friends, good luck with bets if you decide to take any. And enjoy the game!

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阿森纳在季前赛中表现出色，在实际赛季中也表现出色，目前为止他们所有的主场比赛都是如此。

然而，我将和一支迄今为止失败的球队对抗他们。

基本上有两个原因。卡塔尔的比赛对阿森纳来说确实是一个糟糕的时期，卡塔尔也带来了重要而糟糕的伤病消息，尤其是加布里埃尔·热苏斯，他是关键的攻击手。其次，阿森纳失去了良好的势头。

在西汉姆，情况恰恰相反，由于比赛结果不佳，他们需要休息，他们几乎可以用完整的阵容休息，他们的伤病情况正在好转。以下缺阵球员名单并不完整，让我们一起来看看吧:

阿森纳可能也会失去出色的法国中卫萨里巴。

在卡塔尔留下深刻印象的摩洛哥人阿盖尔德将从西汉姆联退出，中后卫祖马也确认缺席，但所有对克雷斯韦尔、斯卡甲和克雷斯韦尔三人组的怀疑都很可能会出现在大名单中。莫耶斯教练表示，他对球队的精神和士气感到满意，在休息期间，他们以1-3战胜了乌迪内斯。

性能、结果和xg数据如何?

阿森纳在联赛中排名第一，这是当之无愧的，因为他们与曼城齐头并进。然而，与预期相比，他们的得分多了6分，这意味着他们是幸运的，或者是正常的，或者两者兼而有之

从个人数据来看，Gabriel Jesus。

他已经进了5个球，人们期待他能进10个球，而现在所有的威胁都消失了。值得注意的是，阿森纳本赛季将他们的机会建立在非常接近球门的地方，传球到球门的最长距离已经达到了21米!热苏斯在这个过程中也很初级，但是奥德加德、萨卡和马蒂内利绝对可以把球带到禁区附近。

阿特塔的阿森纳和瓜迪奥拉的曼城有很多相似之处，这也难怪阿特塔密切关注着他，并学习了关于佩普和足球的一切。

看看曼城(左)和阿森纳(右)的通行证吧!对阿森纳来说，糟糕的事情是，如果我知道他们是如何通过短传和强力尝试进入黄金区进行线对线进攻的，那么莫耶斯也知道，他已经做了功课!

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西汉姆联的实际成绩可能在倒数5名，但他们很不幸，因为他们的表现数据将他们排在第9位，他们的积分预期与利物浦、曼联、布伦特福德和维拉相似。进球一直是个问题，即使是一个关键的区域，也有一部分是运气好的原因，他们应该还有5-6个进球，尤其是在空位比赛中。

总而言之，我喜欢阿森纳，但我不喜欢一支没有从休息中受益的球队，相反，他们在进攻中失去了关键因素，他们面对的是一个很好地利用了休息时间的本地对手，而且远没有结果显示的那么糟糕。

谢谢你阅读这篇文章，我的朋友们，如果你决定接受任何赌注，祝你好运。享受比赛吧!