Arsenal vs Athletic Club LIVE: Emirates Cup match stream, latest score and goal updates

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·9. August 2025

Arsenal vs Athletic Club LIVE: Emirates Cup match stream, latest score and goal updates

Gunners conclude their pre-season campaign with a meeting against last season’s Europa League semi-finalists

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Arsenal vs Athletic Club LIVE

Arsenal conclude their pre-season preparations on home soil this evening as they take on La Liga outfit Athletic Club in the Emirates Cup. The club's annual summer competition will provide Gunners manager Mikel Arteta with one final chance to experiment with his tactics ahead of the Premier League opener away at Manchester United next weekend.

A summer that began with real promise has somewhat faded over the past week as performances in defeats to Tottenham and Villarreal have raised plenty of questions. While results are never the main focus in pre-season, the Gunners have suffered back-to-back losses so returning to winning ways could provide a welcome confidence boost ahead of the trip to Old Trafford.

This will be the first time Arsenal have ever faced the side from Bilbao and Arteta has welcome back two senior players from injury as well as handed another runout to big-money summer signing Viktor Gyokeres. Follow the game LIVE below with our dedicated match blog, featuring expert insight and analysis from Simon Collings at the Emirates Stadium!

Live updates

1 minute ago

Madueke on the bench again

Arsenal summer signing Noni Madueke is named among the substitutes once again. He will be looking to get some more minutes into his legs at some point today.

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6 minutes ago

Not long now!

Just under 20 minutes until we are underway in Arsenal’s final pre-season test of the summer.

Can the Gunners return to winning ways after suffering back-to-back losses at the hands of Tottenham and Villarreal?

11 minutes ago

Dowman absence explained

Max Dowman is not in the Arsenal matchday squad today because he has been given some belated time off.

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16 minutes ago

Team news reminder

Here is how both teams will line-up today.

Arsenal XI: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Zubimendi, Rice, Odegaard (C), Saka, Gyokeres, Martinelli

Substitutes: Kepa, Rojas, White, Mosquera, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Lewis-Skelly, Norgaard, Lokonga, Merino, Madueke, Nwaneri, Nelson, Havertz

Athletic Club XI: Unai Simon; Areso, Vivian, Lekue, Yuri; Galaretta, Jauregizar; I.Williams, Unai, N.Williams; Berenguer

Substitutes: Padilla, Gorosabel, Vesga, Guruzeta, Maroan, Robert Navarro, Rego, Adama, Nico Serrano, De Luis, Izeta

21 minutes ago

Nico Williams starts

Heavily linked with a move to Arsenal earlier in the summer before signing a new contract with his boyhood club, Nico Williams starts at the Emirates Stadium today!

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26 minutes ago

Athletic Club team in full

Athletic Club XI: Unai Simon; Areso, Vivian, Lekue, Yuri; Galaretta, Jauregizar; I.Williams, Unai, N.Williams; Berenguer

Substitutes: Padilla, Gorosabel, Vesga, Guruzeta, Maroan, Robert Navarro, Rego, Adama, Nico Serrano, De Luis, Izeta

31 minutes ago

CONFIRMED ATHLETIC CLUB XI

And lining up for the visitors...

36 minutes ago

Arsenal team news reaction

Simon Collings is in position for us at the Emirates Stadium and has delivered his reaction to the Arsenal team news!

42 minutes ago

Arsenal changes

In total, Mikel Arteta has made six changes to the starting XI for this evening’s Emirates Cup clash against Athletic Club.

The Gunners are boosted by the returns of Gabriel, Jurrien Timber and Riccardo Calafiori, while Declan Rice, Martin Odegaard and Martin Zubimendi start in midfield.

46 minutes ago

Simon Collings at the Emirates Stadium

That is a very strong XI for Arsenal, quite possibly their team for Old Trafford next week. Excited to see the midfield trio of Odegaard, Rice and Zubimendi.

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