Madueke's £52m summer move from Chelsea was greeted with murals, vandals and 5,000-name petitions — and he's responded with one of Arsenal's most direct wide threats. Robinson is a model of consistency at left-back, but Madueke's first-step acceleration in 1v1s is among the league's best. The American USMNT captain will need help from Smith Rowe tracking back. If Robinson is left isolated, expect repeated waves of crosses to Gyökeres at the back stick.

12 league goals and counting for the Swede, who specialises in the channels Andersen most wants to defend. The Dane is the best aerial centre-back in this fixture and a tone-setter for Fulham's back four — but his recovery pace is a talking point, and Gyökeres lives in behind. Andersen needs to stop the service before it lands. Hold the line too high and Arsenal's midfield runners pick him off; sit too deep and Ødegaard finds half-spaces all afternoon.

Fulham's top scorer (10) and top assister (6) versus Arsenal's loan signing from Bayer Leverkusen. Wilson's set-piece delivery and underlapping runs from the right are the single most reliable route to a goal Marco Silva owns. Hincapié is one of the world's best young defenders against a back-foot winger — but he's been an inverted left-back for much of this season, and getting back outside to track Wilson is precisely the sort of duel he was bought to win. The 1v1 of the day.

Arsenal's £200m+ midfield axis against Fulham's £40m one. Zubimendi has been the season's most underrated signing — turning Arsenal's possession into chances at a different rhythm. Berge wins more aerial duels than any midfielder in the country and Lukic is the connector who keeps Fulham compact when they don't have it. If Berge can make the second balls a Fulham coin-flip rather than an Arsenal certainty, Silva's side stay in the game well into the final 20 minutes.