Hey there! I'm Heroic_Lifesaver and welcome to this weeks one stop shop as we prepare for Arsenal's next Premier League match.
Here's last weeks post ahead of the brilliant 5-1 win at West Ham.
This week, the Stoke-on-Trent branch of Sauron's Army descend upon the Emirates, led by their Commander in Chief. It's Stoke City.
The Managers
Arsenal

• Arsene on deals for Ozil and Alexis: "They have 18 months contract and are completely committed and will do well as long as they are here. Beyond that, we will try to extend their contract. But I can't make a subject of that in every press conference. The less you talk about it, the better."
  
• On Stoke City: "It's possible (it will be an old-fashioned battle). And I mean that as a compliment. I think when you have complete commitment - what makes the English Premier League special - it was not negative at all."
  
• On Arsenal's title challenge: "We have more maturity. But so do the teams around us. The Premier League is very open. We are in the middle of it. We have a chance."
  
• On the Champions League draw: "You look at the teams we can get. Some look more prestigious. You want me to say I want this, I don't want this, but that would put us at a disadvantage."
  

Stoke City

• Arsene Wenger and Mark Hughes have faced each other 25 times before in all competitions. Wenger has the advantage with 13 wins. Hughes has gotten the better of Wenger on eight occasions.
  
• Hughes has taken charge of five different clubs against Arsenal: Blackburn, Manchester City, Fulham, QPR and Stoke City.
  
• Wenger has won 10 of 11 home games against Mark Hughes' teams. The only time Hughes went to Arsenal and got something was a 0-0 at the Emirates in an FA Cup last 16 match in 2007. Hughes was in charge of Blackburn at the time and they won the replay at Ewood Park.
  
• The most goals a Mark Hughes team has ever gotten on a trip to Arsenal was two. But that happened the same day Arsenal got six... . SIX!
  

How's your form?
Arsenal

• The Gunners secured top spot in their Champions League group on Tuesday with a great 4-1 win at Basel. It came just days after a brilliant 5-1 hammering of West Ham last Saturday evening. Nine goals in two away games was a terrific response to being knocked out of the League Cup by Southampton.
  
• Last 5 (all comps): DWLWW
  
• P: 14 W: 9 D: 4 L: 1 F: 33 A: 14 Pts: 31 Pos: 2nd
  

Stoke City

• The visitors have hit a bit of form in recent weeks after a poor start to the season. Four wins in their last six league matches have seen them climb into the top half of the table. They're also unbeaten in their last four away games - avoiding defeat at Watford, Hull, West Ham and Man United.
  
• Last 5: WDLWW
  
• P: 14 W: 5 D: 4 L: 5 F: 16 A: 19 Pts: 19 Pos: 9th
  

Team News
Arsenal

• According to Wenger, Hector Bellerin faces a test today to see if he can make his return this weekend. Francis Coquelin is also back from suspension.
  
• Danny Welbeck is "recovering well" and has returned to training over the last week or so. The boss said Welbeck is "a few weeks away to join in again."
  
• Santi Cazorla's surgery went well this week. The man himself posted on social media "It was perfect!" Wenger said "Now we see how he recovers. I'm positive he recovers quickly. Once you open your body in top level sport, it means two months."
  
• Apart from that, there's no new injury worries. Arsene said "Everyone looks to have recovered well."
  

Stoke City

• The visitors have plenty of injury concerns ahead of the match. Marko Arnautovic, Bruno Martins Indi and Ryan Shawcross will all require late fitness tests.
  
• Jack Butland, Ibrahim Affelay, Phil Bardsley and Stephen Ireland are all out for Stoke. American defender Geoff Cameron is also a doubt with a knee injury.
  

Head-to-Head

• This Saturday will see Arsenal take on Stoke for the 104th time. The Gunners have won 54 of their previous meetings, losing just 25 times. There have been 24 draws.
  
• They first met in a First Division match in 1904 - Woolwich Arsenal won 2-1.
  
• Arsenal won just three of the first eight matches with Stoke FC. They weren't known as Stoke City until 1928, when Stoke-on-Trent was granted city status.
  
• Stoke were relegated in 1923 and spent the next ten years outside the First Division. They did play Arsenal in two FA Cup games in the intervening years - the Gunners won them both.
  
• Stoke returned to the top flight in 1933 and were still a First Division side when the football was rudely interrupted by World War Two. After the War, the football returned and Stoke remained in the top Division until 1953, meeting Arsenal on a regular basis.
  
• The Potters were relegated again in '53 and spent another ten years in the second tier. But they returned in 1963 and would spend all but one season in Division One before they went down in 1985.
  
• In their run in the top flight between 1963 and 1985, Stoke beat Arsenal just nine times. Arsenal won exactly half of the forty League matches between the teams in this time.
  
• Stoke did win their last League match with Arsenal in 1985. It would be 23 years before they met again in the League, when Stoke were promoted. They won that game too.
  
• The visitors haven't won at Arsenal since the opening day of the 1981-82 season. That was a 1-0 win at Highbury. Lee Chapman scored the goal that day, barely a year before he would go on to join Arsenal. But he never made much of an impact in an Arsenal shirt - the striker scored just four times in 23 appearances before leaving for Sunderland.
  
• Arsenal have only ever lost five times at home to Stoke. Three of them finished 1-0. The biggest Stoke win at Arsenal was 3-0 on Christmas Day in 1950.
  
• Since Stoke have been promoted to the Premier League, they've beaten Arsenal five times (four in PL, one in FA Cup). All five wins were at the Britannia.
  
• Arsenal have a 100% record against Stoke in eight matches at the Emirates. The aggregate scoreline in these games is 19-3 to Arsenal.
  

That's Interesting

• One of the goalscorers in the first ever match between Arsenal and Stoke was John "Sailor" Hunter. He didn't spend long at Arsenal, scoring four goals in one season with the club. But he is a bit of a legend in Motherwell. Hunter was the first and longest-serving manager of Motherwell FC, spending 35 years in charge. He also guided them to the only League title in their history in 1931-32. Sailor Hunter died in 1966 and, just last month, Motherwell announced that they would be renaming the East Stand of their stadium in his honour.
  
• Before moving to the Britannia/Bet365 Stadium in 1997, Stoke played at Victoria Park. The record attendance for a match at Victoria Park was 51,380. This record was set in a match against Arsenal in March 1937. All those fans crammed in to watch a 0-0...
  
• Arsenal met Stoke in consecutive FA Cup semi-finals in 1971 and 1972. In both seasons, the teams required a replay after finishing level in their first encounter. In '71, they played out a 2-2 at Hillsborough before Arsenal won the replay at Villa Park four days later. The following season, the sides drew 1-1 at Villa Park with Arsenal, again, winning the replay 2-1 at Goodison Park four days later.
  
• Arsenal would go on to win the FA Cup in 1971 and, in doing so, became just the fourth team to do the Double in England. They've since repeated that feat twice more under Arsene Wenger, in 1998 and 2002. Only Arsenal and Manchester United have done it more than once.
  
• Just to round off the FA Cup trivia, both of their semi-final meetings came during a five-year experiment of having a 3rd-place play-off in the FA Cup. Stoke are the only team to have played in more than one play-off, winning it in '71. Arsenal played in the 1973 play-off, losing 3-1 to Wolves at Highbury. Sidenote: notice Alan Sunderland playing for Wolves in this clip, just a few years before scoring the winner for Arsenal in the 1979 Cup final.
  
• Stoke's current stadium was officially opened by club legend Stanley Matthews. After he died in 2000, his ashes were buried beneath the centre spot at the ground. Now, we all know Stanley Matthews was one of the most gifted players of all time and achieved a whole lot in his career: he was the first winner of the European Footballer of the Year (beating Di Stefano by three votes in 1956), he was one of the inaugural inductees into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002, he was the first footballer to receive a Knighthood while still an active player and, of course, the "Matthews Final" of the FA Cup in 1953. But none of this compares to his finest moment on a football pitch. Stanley Matthews once lined up for Arsenal in a friendly against Dynamo Moscow during World War Two. Indeed, his last appearance during his famous spell at Blackpool was a 3-0 defeat to Arsenal at Highbury. Matthews himself said he had always enjoyed playing against Arsenal and that he had "so many wonderful memories" at Highbury.
  
• George Eastham is probably one of the most famous figures to represent both Arsenal and Stoke. He was an important part of the reformation of the English transfer market in the 1960's. At the time, clubs operated a "retain and transfer" system whereby they could keep a players registration and refuse to pay them if the player requested a transfer. This is exactly what Eastham did while at Newcastle United. He went on strike for eight months before being allowed to join Arsenal in 1960. But Eastham continued to fight and took Newcastle to the High Court in 1963. The judge ruled partly in Eastham's favour, although he didn't gain personally in terms of wages owed during the time of his strike. It did, however, lead to changes in the transfer system and gave more power to players by relaxing the "retain" element. One of Eastham's first games for Arsenal was at Newcastle and he scored the equaliser in a 3-3 draw. During the match he was called "Judas" and pelted with apples by the Newcastle fans.
  
• George Eastham spent six years at Arsenal and was part of the victorious England squad in the 1966 World Cup. He didn't play a single minute at the Finals though, and only the XI on the field received medals after the final. This was amended by FIFA in 2007 and Eastham, along with his teammates, got their World Cup medal in 2009. He joined Stoke from Arsenal ahead of the 1966-67 season and won the League Cup with them in 1971. He managed them for less than a year in 1977, taking charge of a struggling, depleted side towards the end of the season. Eastham was unable to prevent their relegation and was sacked in early 1978.
  
• Arsene Wenger first faced Stoke in a League match in 2008 but one of his first matches in charge of Arsenal was against the Potters. They drew 1-1 in a League Cup tie at Victoria Park in 1996. Arsenal won the replay 5-2 at Highbury. They also played an FA Cup 3rd round match in 2005, with Arsenal winning 2-1.
  

How about some goals?

• September 2015 - Premier League: The most recent meeting at the Emirates. Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud gave Arsenal a 2-0 win and their first home victory last season.
  
• January 2015 - Premier League: Alexis Sanchez scored not once but twice and provided the assist for Koscielny's opener in a 3-0 Arsenal win. This was also the game where Debuchy dislocated his shoulder after an unnecessary challenge from Arnautovic.
  
• February 2013 - Premier League: Lukas Podolski scored the only goal for Arsenal to give us all three points. Nacho Monreal made his Arsenal debut in this game and it's also the most recent Arsenal match I've been to.
  
• November 1996 - League Cup: Arsene Wenger's reign at Arsenal was in it's infancy when he first came up against Stoke. This was a replay after a 1-1 draw a couple weeks earlier. Ian Wright was the star of the show with two goals and two assists in this 5-2 win at Highbury.
  
• January 2005 - FA Cup: Arsenal come from behind to win this 3rd round tie. Jose Reyes and Robin Van Persie got the goals to kick off what would be a successful cup run. Emmanuel Eboue made his Arsenal debut here.
  

And that's that...
So there it is, everything you need to know ahead of our clash with the Orcs on Saturday. It's a 3pm (GMT) kick off. Here's hoping for a win to put us top, at least until Chelsea play on Sunday. Hopefully we can keep up the goal-scoring streak we're on at the minute too.
I'll be back a little earlier than usual ahead of our next match, which is on Tuesday evening away to Everton. Plenty of games to keep on top of during the busy Christmas period.
Thanks for reading!

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Short Introduction

Week 9 Day 1 of the EU LCS wasn’t exactly surprising but I’ll be damned if there weren’t some exciting moments. The reunion of H2k and their previous marksman player kicking off to a great start is always good. For day 2 of the EU LCS we’ll be taking a deeper look into FC Schalke 04 vs. Team Vitality followed by the final game of the EU LCS round-robin, G2 Esports vs. Fnatic. Make sure you catch the games as they’re the closing games of the EU LCS!

Overview

Dates: 07/30/2016 – 07/31/2016
Start Time: 03:00 AM PDT/ 06:00 AM EDT/ 12:00 CEST
Format: Best of 2 – 10 Matches | 10 games per match day
Location: EU LCS Studio / Arena – Berlin, Germany
Patch: LoL 6.14
Betting Odds for all matches available
Predictions and Betting tips
View Standings LCS EU Summer Split 2016

Table of comparison for betting odds on bet365.com

Game	1	x	2
Giants vs. Roccat	1.83	2.20	10.00
Unicorns of Love vs. Splyce	6.00	2.20	2.10
G2 Esports vs. Fnatic	3.25	1.83	4.00
FC Schalke 04 vs. Vitality	3.00	1.90	4.00
Origen vs. H2K Gaming	4.50	1.90	2.75

Table of comparison for betting odds on betway.com

Game	1	x	2
Giants vs. Roccat	1.95	2.25	6.40
Unicorns of Love vs. Splyce	6.00	1.90	2.35
G2 Esports vs. Fnatic	2.80	2.00	3.90
FC Schalke 04 vs. Vitality	2.80	2.00	3.90
Origen vs. H2K Gaming	4.10	2.05	2.65

Predictions:

#GIAwin > ROC
UOL < #SPYwin
G2 = FNC
S04 = VIT
OG < #H2Kwin

Week 9 - EU LCS 2016 Summer Split