# Arsenal v Hull: the leaders without Saka and Dowman host a Hull side without Crooks that has not won since August *Saturday 16:00 CET at the Emirates. Arsenal are top on 24 points and have won 18 of their last 19 league games against promoted sides; Hull are 11th on 11, winless since August, but beat Manchester United 2-0.* Matches · Published 07:39 WAT, 7 Nov 2026 · Match News (https://matchnews.news/ng/matches/arsenal-v-hull-leaders-without-saka-and-dowman-hull-without-crooks/) By Matches desk · Reviewed by Fredrik Jurek Arsenal v Hull City, 16:00 WAT, 7 Nov 2026 (2026-11-07T15:00:00.000Z). Prices at BettingBeast before kick-off, last captured 06:23 WAT, 7 Nov 2026. Percentages are the chance each price implied, before the bookmaker's margin. 18+ Home 1.18, Draw 8.89, Away 23.96. Arsenal host Hull City at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday 7 November at 16:00 CET, the league leaders against a promoted side that has not won since August but has already taken points off Manchester United and Chelsea. Arsenal are top on 24 points from nine games, three clear of Manchester City, who play at Nottingham Forest at 18:30 CET; Hull are 11th on 11 points, with two wins, five draws and two defeats. ## Why it matters Arsenal can go into the international break at least three points clear whatever City do, and six clear if City lose at Forest. Their record against newly promoted sides is the number the Premier League's own preview leads with: 18 wins from the last 19 league meetings. Arsenal's last league game was the 1-0 win at Anfield on 1 November, which took them top, and they won again in the Champions League on Wednesday, as this site's round-up reported, to stay unbeaten in Europe with ten points from four games. Hull's season has been built on draws: five of them in nine games, including 2-2 with Chelsea and 2-2 with Ipswich last weekend, and a 2-0 win over Manchester United in the one game that made the country look. They have not won since August, the league's preview says, and are four points above the relegation places. ## Team news Arsenal: Bukayo Saka is out with the thigh injury he suffered in October, with no return date in the licensed availability notes used by this site, and Max Dowman, the 16-year-old whose ban for a red card against Fleetwood was upheld, as this site reported, is suspended until 29 November. Mikel Arteta's Friday press conference is on the club's website, but the page could not be read by this site on Saturday morning, so nothing from it is quoted; what he said about Saka, Saliba and Konsa, which the club's page titles promise, is not known here. No other Arsenal player is listed as injured or suspended in the notes. The official team is due at about 14:45 CET. Hull: Matt Crooks is suspended after five yellow cards, and Hidemasa Morita is unlikely to play because of what the league's line-ups piece calls a niggle; the notes say a groin injury, added on Thursday. Darko Gyabi, with a thigh injury, and Lucas Gourna-Douath, with a calf injury, are at 75% in the notes. Hull's head coach, Sergej Jakirović, may keep the team that drew with Ipswich, the league's piece says, and goalkeeper Jack Butland, not in the last squad, could return. ## How to read the market The market has barely moved. BettingBeast's feed, which this site reads at least once an hour, first carried the game at 21:38 CET on Saturday 31 October with Arsenal at 1.19 to win, Hull at 18.93 and the draw at 7.82. At the 06:23 CET capture on Saturday, the price on the card above, Arsenal were 1.18, Hull 23.96 and the draw 8.89. Turning the prices into chances, called the implied probability, by dividing one by the price: Arsenal have gone from about an 84% chance to about an 85%, and Hull from about 5% to about 4%, a shift of one percentage point, which is below the two-point mark this site treats as noise. The handicap, the goal start given to the weaker side to even the contest, has switched between Hull getting one and a half, two and two and a half goals through the week, as the feed does when the prices on neighbouring lines sit near even money; at the Saturday capture Hull got two goals, with Arsenal at 1.84 to win by three or more and Hull at 2.11 to keep it closer than two. The goals line is 2.5, with over at 1.56 and under at 2.71, so the market expects three goals or more; this site's explainer on the goals line, published on Saturday, uses this game as its example. ## What to watch Who plays on Arsenal's right without Saka and Dowman. Whether Hull sit in for a sixth draw, which is what their season says they will try. And the first goal: Arsenal's price gives them an 85% chance, but a side that has drawn five of nine needs only to keep the game level for an hour to make the Emirates nervous. A lean: an Arsenal win by two or more looks more likely than a close game, given the record against promoted sides and Hull's absentees in midfield, though five draws in nine is a record that was earned somewhere. The card on this page carries the latest price. ## Sources 1. Predicted line-ups for Premier League teams in Matchweek 10 (Premier League) https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4756862/predicted-line-ups-for-premier-league-teams-in-matchweek-10 - Read 07:03 WAT, 7 Nov 2026 2. Ten key questions for Matchweek 10's fixtures (Premier League) https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4756471/ten-key-questions-for-matchweek-10-fixtures-in-premier-league-2026-27-season-including-man-utd-v-aston-villa - Read 07:03 WAT, 7 Nov 2026 3. Fixture amendments for Premier League matches in November (Premier League) https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4725574/fixture-amendments-for-premier-league-matches-in-november - Read 07:05 WAT, 7 Nov 2026 4. Every word of Mikel's pre-Hull City press conference (page title only; the page could not be read) (Arsenal) https://www.arsenal.com/news/every-word-of-mikels-pre-hull-city-press-conference-a4vNQ7s9pw69 - Read 07:05 WAT, 7 Nov 2026 5. Premier League standings, fixtures and availability notes (licensed feed, generated 2026-11-07T05:23Z, in data/latest.json) (football-data.org via Match News) https://www.football-data.org/ - Read 07:36 WAT, 7 Nov 2026 6. BettingBeast football prices, captured by this site's odds job (data/odds-series.json and data/odds-latest.json) (BettingBeast via Match News) https://matchnews.news/data/odds-series.json - Read 07:38 WAT, 7 Nov 2026 --- 18+. Gambling involves risk and can be addictive. Please gamble responsibly. Odds links go to BettingBeast. Match News is a football news site published by Checkraise Ltd. Every odds link on this site goes to BettingBeast. Articles are written with the help of an AI system and checked against the sources they cite; the responsible editor is named on every article.