Tinsel Town. La La Land. Hooray for Hollywood. Pick your nickname/cliche for Los Angeles, as Arsenal are headed to Southern California, where they’ll take on AFC Bournemouth in a preseason friendly.
Preseason Friendly FYIs
Bournemouth AFC vs Arsenal FC
Kickoff (local time): Wed July 24, 7:30 pm, Dignity Health Sports Park, Los Angeles CA, USA
Arsenal Preview Content: Team News Starting XI Prediction USA Tour Squad List
Transatlantic Passage: How the Premier League Redefined Soccer in America: LINK
Let’s take a look at which Gunners players are coming across the pond to play in this friendly against Bournemouth, and the rest of the tour.
Mikel Arteta can easily formulate a very strong side here. Let’s see what that might look like now. As you can see from our starting lineup prediction, we still left out a couple of big names here and there.
Arsenal Starting XI Prediction vs Bournemouth (Club Friendly)
Karl Hein; Ben White, Jurrien Timber, Jakub Kiwior, Oleksandr Zinchenko; Thomas Partey, Jorginho, Martin Odegaard; Leandro Trossard, Reiss Nelson, Eddie Nketiah
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