Premier League: Top spot beckons as Arsenal visit Watford

Matt Haynes | October 16, 2015

Watford v Arsenal

Premier League
Saturday, October 17th
Kick-off: 17:30 BST
Vicarage Road
Live on Sky Sports 1

Momentum key for Wenger’s men

For the Gunners, the international break perhaps came at the wrong time. After recording a resounding 3-0 win over Manchester United at the Emirates, Arsene Wenger barely had time to build on this in training before his players took flight.

However, the club’s odds-on 8/13 price with Coral to beat Watford, on balance, seem more than justified on current form. Arsenal have an unblemished history against their Hertfordshire opponents in the Premier League, with four wins and an FA Cup victory sandwiched in between, though the last time the clubs met was in the 2006/07 campaign.

It was a decidedly marked improvement last time out against the Red Devils and Mesut Ozil was at his world class best as he dispatched a great strike, and as a result, the German string-puller is a great price at 2/1 in the anytime market.

Wenger must choose from either Theo Walcott or Olivier Giroud to play in the lone striker role, with the former dispatching for England against Estonia. He is 4/1 to break the deadlock at Vicarage Road and will see this as a match where he can get into a number of scoring positions.

Picking up where they left off though, will be the key for the Gunners, who know that if both Manchester City and Manchester United slip up, they could be top after this round of Premier League games.