Ex-Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira have backed their former club to bounce back from their disappointing defeat at Bournemouth with victory over Liverpool.

The Gunners suffered an early setback this season Premier League title race as goals from Ryan Christie and Justin Kluivert secured Bournemouth a shock 2-0 win on the south coast last weekend.

William Saliba had earlier been sent off for a foul on Evanilson, meaning Mikel Arteta will be without the suspended centre-back for tomorrow’s heavyweight clash with league leaders Liverpool at the Emirates.

Third-placed Arsenal are also unable to call on captain Martin Odegaard, who remains sidelined with an ankle problem. Meanwhile, Bukayo Saka, Riccardo Calafiori, Jurrien Timber and Takehiro Tomiyasu have struggled with their own injuries.

Arne Slot’s Liverpool have had a relatively clean bill of health in comparison this term, although Alisson, Diogo Jota, Conor Bradley and Federico Chiesa will all be missing in north London.

“It’s true that Arsenal’s squad is very depleted, probably too depleted to meet expectations against an in-form Liverpool side and currently looking irresistible,” said legendary former Arsenal and France midfielder Vieira. mybettingsites.co.uk.

“But the fact that Arsenal play at home, where they rarely lose, and with the support of their fans, and if they manage to be effective in the opposition box, I have no doubt that they will be in a position to score victory that would be crucial to their revival after a complicated few weeks in the league.’

“Every club has injuries, every club is missing players,” said the former Manchester United and England right-back The overlap USA.

– I accept that they might not like the idea because Saka and Odegaard are obviously very big players and Saliba is obviously out with the self-inflicted red card. But I accept no excuses for Sunday.

– I expect Arsenal, who finished above Liverpool last season, we have eight games left, basically to go out on that pitch and believe they will win that game. That’s what I expect.

“They have to change their mentality from a team that comes second – and they’re a really good side, they’ve made a lot of progress – to a team that’s going to win the league.

“They can’t do anything but go and win that football game.”

Asked for his score prediction, Neville said: “I’ll take Arsenal 2-1 because I don’t see Liverpool going seven points ahead of them.

– My instinct is that on Sunday night I don’t see the league table that says Liverpool 24 points and Arsenal 17, that’s my instinct.

“In my experience when I’ve seen these games before and I’m not just coming from my instinct today, I think sometimes when you have these games and you go, ‘Manchester United can go seven points ahead of Arsenal in 1998’, it usually not happen.

“The motivation for the team that desperately doesn’t want to go below seven, it gives them that edge that the team that’s four points ahead doesn’t really have at this time of the year.”

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