Port Vale<\/a> have made a slow start to the season in League One but upset Championship side Birmingham in the last round.<\/p>\nHere\u2019s everything you need to know about the game…<\/p>\n
Date, kick-off time and venue<\/p>\n
Port Vale v Arsenal is scheduled to kick off at 8pm BST on Wednesday, September 24th 2025.<\/p>\n
The match will take place at Vale Park in Stoke-on-Trent.<\/p>\n
Where to watch Port Vale v Arsenal<\/p>\n
TV channel: In the UK, the game will be shown on Sky Sports Main Event with coverage beginning at 19:00.<\/p>\n
Live stream: Sky Sports subscribers can also catch the contest live online via the Sky Go app.<\/p>\n
Live blog: You can follow all the action on matchday via Standard Sport\u2019s live blog, where we\u2019ll bring you the latest updates and expert analysis from Simon Collings at the ground.<\/p>\n
Free highlights: The Sky Sports app and Sky Sports Football YouTube channel should show highlights after the match.<\/p>\n
Port Vale v Arsenal team news<\/p>\n
New signing Piero Hincapie is out with a groin problem.<\/p>\n
Kepa Arrizabalaga will make his first appearance for Arsenal in goal.<\/p>\n
Arteta is expected to rotate his side, so there could be starts for Cristhian Mosquera, Ben White, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Christian Norgaard.<\/p>\n
Max Dowman could make his first Arsenal start. <\/p>\n
Port Vale have forward Mo Faal back after he made his return from the bench in the 2-1 win over Mansfield Town after a hamstring issue.<\/p>\n
Moore is sweating the fitness of midfielder Liam Gordon. Port Vale will be without the injured Mitch Clark and Kyle John.<\/p>\n
Port Vale v Arsenal prediction<\/p>\n
Port Vale sit 19th in League One but have won their last two league games and will hope that they can continue that mini-run of good form to trouble Arsenal.<\/p>\n
That will be unlikely though and the Gunners should progress comfortably.<\/p>\n
Head to head (h2h) history and results<\/p>\n
These two have not faced each other since 1998, where Arsenal actually needed penalties to sneak past Vale in a FA Cup<\/a> third round replay.<\/p>\nPort Vale vs Arsenal match odds<\/p>\n
Odds via Betfair (subject to change)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Dowman could make his first Arsenal start as Mikel Arteta prepares to make changes to his team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29018,85,46,29017,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-34750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-fa-cup","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-port-vale","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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