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Arsenal are likely to recall a host of first-team regulars for Sunday's Premier League visit of Crystal Palace.

Gunners boss Unai Emery made 10 changes for the 3-2 Europa League win over Vitoria but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Granit Xhaka and David Luiz are expected to come back in.

Reiss Nelson (knee) is the only injury absentee while Nicolas Pepe will expect to start after coming off the bench to score twice on Thursday night.

Crystal Palace could see goalkeeper Vicente Guaita return after he was forced to miss the defeat to Manchester City because of a groin problem.

Defender Martin Kelly (groin) has been able to train all week, so should be involved.

Mamadou Sakho (thigh) continues his rehabilitation while forward Connor Wickham is also sidelined by an unspecified fitness issue.

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Opta stats

• Arsenal have lost two of their last five league meetings with Crystal Palace (W2 D1), as many as they had in their first 33 such games against the Eagles (W22 D9 L2).
• Arsenal have never failed to score in 19 home league games against Crystal Palace - they've faced the Eagles more often without ever failing to score at home than they have against any other side in their top-flight history.
• Arsenal haven't lost a home league game in October since 2002 (1-2 vs Blackburn), winning 25 and drawing five since. It's their joint-longest unbeaten home run in a single month in Premier League history (also 30 in March between 1998 and 2015).
• Crystal Palace's Luka Milivojevic has scored more Premier League goals against Arsenal than he has against any other side in the competition, netting four goals in five games against the Gunners.
• Since February 2018, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has scored 26 Premier League goals in games played on Sunday - no player has scored more on a day of the week in that time (Mo Salah, 26 goals on Saturday).

Charlie's prediction

What are we going to get? Will Arsenal see 70 per cent of the ball and fail to register a shot on target? Will it be a repeat of the Wilfried Zaha show like this game last year?

Unai Emery has come under scrutiny from some supporters and they are starting to ask questions. Why have they paid the money for Kieran Tierney and are not playing him, despite getting him fit? Why are you not playing Hector Bellerin when fit? I do not understand why he gets these players fit and he doesn't play them.

Bernd Leno makes some mistakes and is young, but he is left completely and utterly isolated by the lack of a defensive partnership. I feel sorry for him. David Luiz and Sokratis Papastathopoulos high five each other when they give corners away. Matteo Guendouzi has good energy and covers the ground well, but he is too young to understand the protective role and needs someone in beside him to pivot him and look after him.

These players have a soft belly but they are supposed to provoke and win the little scraps. I would be more interested in Lucas Torreira beside Guendouzi or even Ainsley Maitland-Niles could do it with his speed.

In attack, Nicolas Pepe needs a shake. He is very talented but he needs to want the ball and get on the ball. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is scoring goals in an ordinary team and Alexandre Lacazette must start. I like Bukayo Saka but you need to feed him in at the right time.

Ceballos needs to be in behind the front three. If you dominate games which you should do against Palace, the middle two and full-backs will be higher up. Emery wanted to emulate Liverpool's style of play, and when those two full-backs are high, you know there is trouble coming. Bellerin and Tierney must play higher when they play and that is when the two holding players come in handy and that is how the balance works.

Zaha will be putting himself on the market again with Arsenal trying to buy him in the summer, while Andros Townsend will have a go being ex-Tottenham. Gary Cahill has been good since coming in for Palace, but Arsenal should have too much.

CHARLIE PREDICTS: Arsenal 3-1 Crystal Palace (10/1 with Sky Bet)

Fantasy Football tip: Nicolas Pepe (£9.8m) scored two stunning free-kicks after coming off the bench to see off Vitoria in the Europa League. Could this be the confidence boost he needed to start firing in the Premier League? A steady 8.07 per cent of Fantasy Football players are backing him to do just that - two home games against Crystal Palace and Wolves follow for the Ivorian. Play here

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