Arsenal and West Ham United are playing live on the English Premier League schedule on Saturday and the match from Emirates Stadium starts at 11 am ET on the NBC Sports Network and NBCSN Live Extra website as Arsene Wenger and Danny Welbeck try and keep things going to move up on the EPL table as the season starts to wind down.
Arsenal and West Ham are playing for the final time this season and Arsenal comes in at third on the EPL table and they have played well of late. The team knows the table is tight down where they are and with the season winding down, it means that every point counts. The Gunners come in after a win against Man United in the FA Cup and that was an upset since it was at Old Trafford.
Wenger has been looking for his team to stay in consistent form from the FA Cup, EPL and other competitions and he said that they are taking shape in a good way. Danny Welbeck scored in the match and that was big for him and Arsenal comes in also after losing to Monaco in the Champions League Round of 16 and that was at home. That makes it very tough for the team to advance in the round of 16, as they now will have to travel for the next match down two goals and three road goals overall.
The team has been in the UCL for years and they will not want to fall out of contention. The team won over Middlesbrough and Leicester City in past matchup's over last month and they also lost on the road to Tottenham after winning big against Aston Villa at home. Coming up the team has matchup with Newcastle and Liverpool and that match with the Red should be huge with the way the table is shaping up.
Through the rest of the season the team has matchups with Chelsea as well as Burnley, Liverpool and Hull City and they need to keep things going to stay in position. The matchup with Chelsea is at home and they also made it into the FA Cup semifinal and that is also an important match. Arsenal will be without midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain for a month and that is very tough and they will have to find a way to overcome that in the coming weeks.
West Ham has played well of late and they are in the middle of the table. Arsenal has won all but two matches since New Year's and they want to keep that going, as they have put up 21 points already in 2015, only behind Liverpool and that matchup is looming.
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