Premier League giants Arsenal kick-start their Premier League 2015/16 season at home against mid table side West Ham United. The Gunners are clear favourites in this game and are expected to win it comfortably.
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic is hand 16-year-old wonder kid Reece Oxford a against giants Arsenal. It is a great show of faith by Bilic which would boost the youngster’s confidence. He becomes the seventh-youngest player in Premier League history at the age of 16 years and 237 days to make his debut.
Arsene Wenger has fielded Olivier Giroud ahead of Theo Walcott in the starting lineup. Alexis Sanchez features on the bench,
The starting lineups of the both the teams are given below:
Arsenal Starting XI: Cech, Debuchy, Mertesacker ©, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Cazorla, Giroud
Arsenal Subs: Ospinna (GK), Gibbs, Chambers, Gabriel, Arteta, Walcott, Sanchez
West Ham United Starting lineup: Adrian, Tomkins, Reid, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Oxford, Noble ©, Kouyate, Payet, Zarate, Sakho
West ham United Subs: Randolph (GK), Collins, Poyet, Nolan, Jarvis, Lanzini, Maiga