Top match in Group A!
Arsenal take on PSV Eindhoven in a British-Dutch clash that was supposed to take place on matchday two in the Europa League around a month ago, but was postponed due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the time.
The home side have not shown any sign of weakness in the competition so far. They have won all three group matches. The visitors are hardly inferior with two victories and a draw.
They showed their form again recently with a 5-0 win over Swiss champions FC Zurich. For the upcoming clash between Arsenal and PSV Eindhoven, the forecast includes goals on both sides.
Arsenal – Statistics & current form
Arsenal can be very satisfied not only with the season’s performance in the Europa League, but also in the Premier League. Coach Mikel Arteta’s team is currently in first place!
Arsenal’s offensive has been particularly reliable so far. Only the champions from Manchester have scored more goals. The Brazilian Gabriel Jesus deserves a lot of credit for the successful offensive. The striker arrived from the Citizens before the season and immediately hit the ground running: in his ten league games, he scored five goals and provided three assists!
The Norwegian Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Martinelli, who like Gabriel Jesus comes from Brazil, are also doing very well. Together they have eleven goals in league play.
In addition, Bukayo Saka is getting better and better: The 21-year-old youngster and top scorer in the Premier League last season (11 goals & 7 assists) has scored consistently for the last three competitive games and even scored twice in the victory in the recent top match against Liverpool.
Do the home side strike twice and in both halves of the game?
With so much attacking power on the home side’s side, odds on Arsenal scoring more than one goal against PSV Eindhoven are also worth considering. Furthermore, bets on goals by the home side in both halves of the match are also worth considering.
Predicted Arsenal line-up:
Ramsdale – White – Saliba – Gabriel – Zinchenko – Xhaka – Lokonga – Saka – Odegaard – Martinelli – Jesus
Last matches played by Arsenal:
Premier League
16/10/2022 – Leeds 0 – 1 Arsenal FC
Europa League Grp. A
13/10/2022 – Bodö/Glimt 0 – 1 FC Arsenal
Premier League
09/10/2022 – Arsenal FC 3 – 2 Liverpool FC
Europa League Grp. A
07/10/2022 – Arsenal FC 3 – 0 Bodö/Glimt
Premier League
01/10/2022 – Arsenal FC 3 – 1 Tottenham
PSV Eindhoven – Statistics & current form
The “lamps” lost their head coach Roger Schmidt after last season, who now holds that post at Benfica Lisbon. However, his successor Ruud van Nistelrooy, who took over a coaching position at a professional club for the first time, is delivering a strong season with his new team. The former assistant coach of the Dutch national team and PSV player ranks second in the domestic Eredivisie with the club from the south of the country and only two of the ten league games played have not been won (8-0-2).
Eindhoven scores the most goals in the Eredivisie
On top of that, no team has scored more goals than the team from Noord-Brabant – an average of 3.5 goals per league match.
Cody Gakpo is an efficient offensive player for the “Rood-witten”. The striker has scored no less than nine goals after ten match days in the top division of the Netherlands! With this number of goals, the 23-year-old is in first place in the scoring charts! In addition, he is no less strong in the Europa League with three goals in as many games.
Simons is developing into a coming star at PSV
On top, the 24-time champions of the Netherlands have a real diamond in the rough in Xavi Simons. The 20-year-old was brought in from PSG, where he was only used sporadically.
He has become a regular for the 1988 European Cup winners and with eight goals and three assists in the Eredivisie, it is clear that the youngster is at the start of a great career.
He also proved his solid form last weekend when he scored twice in the dress rehearsal against FC Utrecht and was instrumental in PSV’s emphatic 6-1 victory. For Arsenal vs. PSV Eindhoven, the betting odds on a goal from the youngster are particularly attractive.
Predicted line-up of PSV Eindhoven:
Benitez – Mwene – Obispo – Teze – Hoever – Gutierrez – Veerman – Saibari – Simons – Gakpo – El-Ghazi
Last matches played by PSV Eindhoven:
Eredivisie
16/10/2022 – PSV Eindhoven 6 – 1 FC Utrecht
Europa League Grp. A
14/10/2022 – PSV Eindhoven 5 – 0 FC Zurich
Eredivisie
09/10/2022 – SC Heerenveen 0 – 1 PSV Eindhoven
Europa League Grp. A
06/10/2022 – FC Zurich 1 – 5 PSV Eindhoven
Eredivisie
01/10/2022 – SC Cambuur-Leeuwarden 3 – 0 PSV Eindhoven
Arsenal – PSV Eindhoven Direct comparison / H2H record
The clubs have faced each other six times on the European stage in the recent past. All meetings took place in the Champions League and the last time they met was in 2007.
On that occasion, the visitors recorded a 1-0 win at home to Philips Stadium and drew 1-1 in the second leg of the Round of 16, but the overall record is slightly in favour of the home side (2-3-1).
Recent comparisons have been low-scoring
Statistically, it is also striking that only in the first of the six duels more than 2.5 goals were scored. In the following five encounters, the average number of goals scored fell to a very low 1.2. Nevertheless, despite the low odds, betting on goals on both sides is worth considering at the moment between Arsenal and PSV Eindhoven.
Arsenal – PSV Eindhoven Tip
In the duel between Arsenal and PSV Eindhoven, the tip is that both will score. In the match, the two best teams in Group A will face each other and both can rely on powerful attacking lines.
There will also be no lack of motivation, as the match could be a preliminary decision in the battle for first place.
This brings with it the advantage that the first-placed team does not have to play again until the last 16 of the competition, while the second-placed team already enters in the last 16. Especially from the guests an offensive orientation is to be expected, as they are currently two points behind.
However, with ten goals in the two games against Zurich, PSV have impressively demonstrated that the best attack in the Dutch top flight continues to function strongly!
