Everton vs. Arsenal: Team News, Preview, Live Stream, TV Info

Arsenal will continue their bid for the Premier League title when they meet struggling Everton at Goodison Park on Tuesday.

The Toffees haven't won in five games in the league, but manager Ronald Koeman has traditionally got the better of his Gunners counterpart, Arsene Wenger.

Arsenal's cause isn't helped by the absence of centre-back Shkodran Mustafi, who will miss out after picking up a hamstring injury during Saturday's 3-1 win over Stoke City.

Here are all the schedule and viewing details, before a closer look at the team news:

Date: Tuesday, December 13

Time: 7:45 p.m. (GMT), 2:45 p.m. (ET)

TV Info: BT Sport 1. NBCSN.

Live Stream: BT Sport App. NBC Sports App.

Team News

Wenger confirmed how long Mustafi is likely to miss after the win over the Potters, per BBC Sport: "It's a bad one. The minimum is 21 days." That's probably a conservative estimate, so the Gunners need plans in place to cope without a player who has become a key member of the back four.

Mustafi has worked well with fellow central defender Laurent Koscielny since arriving from Valencia in the summer. The France international should expect Gabriel Paulista to start in place of his regular defensive partner.

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The Koscielny-Gabriel partnership appeared shaky last season, although the mistake-prone Brazilian has been playing well lately, albeit as a makeshift right-back.

One other alternative Wenger might consider is to play 21-year-old Rob Holding next to Koscielny. The former Bolton Wanderers youngster has impressed at times in limited action this season, and he recently earned a first start in the UEFA Champions League during the 4-1 win away to FC Basel.

Holding has talent, but he's still too raw and inexperienced for Wenger to consider him against in-form Everton striker Romelu Lukaku. The Belgian powerhouse bagged both goals in Saturday's 3-2 defeat to Watford.

Lukaku sounded an unhappy man when he appeared to bemoan a certain negativity in Everton's approach against Watford, per the club's official site. 

"We scored the goal as well, and from there, we should have tried to score a second while keeping the same shape in the team," he said. "But we didn’t, we let them play and their two strikers up front did a lot of damage and made it difficult for us."

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Arsenal's best way to protect their centre-backs and keep Lukaku quiet will be to dominate possession in midfield. Wenger's options are thinned, though, with Santi Cazorla still out after ankle surgery.

Aaron Ramsey is another player with the quality on the ball to dictate passing, but a problem kept the Welshman out of the game with Stoke, according to ESPN FC's Mattias Karen:

Wenger will have to rely on Mesut Ozil and Granit Xhaka to pick out runners between the lines. The Gunners have been lethal on the break this season but may find countering against a Koeman-coached side difficult.

The Dutchman has mastered denying space and playing a cagey game against Wenger's teams. It's a formula Koeman has used to win three of his last five meetings with the Arsenal boss, including a 4-0 win last December when the the former was in charge of Southampton.

Winning at Goodison would be a great way for Arsenal to lay down a genuine marker in the title race. Yet recent history doesn't favour the Gunners against a manager who knows how to frustrate them.