Arsenal vs West Brom Live Stream: Watch Premier League Online
By Josh Sippie
Arsenal will be hoping to return to good form against West Brom at the Hawthorns and you want to watch, so here are all the facts and how to tune in.
It feels like Arsenal hasn’t had a Premier League fixture in months. They’ve been too busy getting torn apart like soft bread by Bayern Munich and too busy ticketing their train to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-finals.
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Now, they are back in the competition that sees them 16 points behind league-leading Chelsea (but with a game in hand!).
The test comes at The Hawthorns, a venue that used to boast a pretty stout defensive challenge, but not this year. This year, they have been dismantled by numerous teams, including a 4-0 drubbing by Manchester City.
However, they have held both Arsenal and Chelsea to 1-0 wins, and that was away from home, so the Baggies are not one to be taken lightly. Plus, Tony Pulis has a way of being prickly more times than not.
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The Gunners will come into this match desperate for confidence. It may well be growing slightly, but they have to keep in mind that they haven’t exactly been finding much success against top-tier teams lately. They’ve taken care of lower-tier opposition fairly easily, but they need to take that next step and dispatch West Brom. And doing it handily wouldn’t hurt.
Wenger has already noted that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will be missing, so we can expect to see Mesut Ozil back into the No. 10 role again, which is probably the biggest test of the match. Ozil, just like the entire team, needs something to build off of and the Baggies will not make it easier for him.
On West Brom’s side, while Salomon Rondon hasn’t been a striking masterclass this season, he is a big guy, and big guys can often times cause problems to an undersized Arsenal back line. Especially with Nacer Chadli at his new home and looking like a right menace.
If Pulis was a clever man, he’d start Chadli opposite left back and hope that Wenger uses Nacho Monreal, because the results would swing in the Baggies favor most likely.
Either way, the Gunners should be confident and should have no troubles here. But then again, they should have done a lot of things by now.
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Date: 18 March 2017
Venue: The Hawthonrs, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England
Time: 8:30 EST, 12:30 BST
TV: NBCSN
Radio: Talk Sports Radio World
Stream: Arsenal Player, NBC Sports Live Extra