Arsenal and Hull City are playing on Saturday on the English Premier League schedule and the Gunners are hosting the Tigers at the Emirates Stadium and the match is live from the NBC Sports Network at 10 am ET and streaming from the NBCSN Live Extra website as Arsene Wenger tries to get his team up into the top part of the EPL standings.
Arsenal is eighth on the league table coming into the weekend after the break and they will play against Hull City again in May and they come in after last losing to Chelsea. The Blues are on top of the league standings and they have played very well, leading the league in goals scored and they are on top of Manchester City on the league table. Arsenal won their matchup against their last Champions League opponent before playing Chelsea and now they have Hull City before playing Anderlecht next week.
Arsenal is eighth with Liverpool in the middle of the standings and West Ham has the same amount of points heading into Saturday. Tottenham is in sixth place coming into the weekend, while Swansea City is in fifth place. Manchester United is in fourth place on the league table and they are behind Southampton and Manchester City, while Chelsea is first with 19 points.
Arsenal should have midfielder Mikel Arteta coming back from an injury and this comes as Mesut Ozil is dealing with an injury of his own and he will be out for a while. Theo Walcott has not been able to return yet and Arsenal is looking to get things on track coming out of the international break and also with the Champions League coming up next week.
The match against Chelsea the last time out ended up in a shoving match between Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho and that should make the next matchup very interesting. The team went down 2-0 quickly against Chelsea and they were just too much to handle and this is a chance for Arsenal to get some points. The team has won five times in a row against Hull City and Arsenal has won against them overall seven times and the Gunners had been playing well before a loss against Chelsea.
Wenger has been off to better starts than this and it has been disappointing after the team led the league in the early part of the season last year. The Gunners could not hold on after the new year and now they will have to play very well the rest of the way to catch Chelsea and the top four after so many consecutive Champions League appearances. Arsenal has played very well at home and they haven't lost there since the start of last season.