
Brentford vs. Arsenal Betting Tips: Anytime goalscorer and method of victory selections for Wednesday

Brentford meet Arsenal in one of five all Premier League ties featured in the third round of this season's League Cup.
Thomas Frank's side roll into this fixture having awarded Everton their first win of the season in a 3-1 defeat at the Gtech Community Stadium. Previously, The Bees needed a penalty shootout to help them progress over Newport County in the League Cup second round at the end of August.
Arsenal enter this year's Carabao Cup off the back of a thrilling 2-2 draw in Sunday's North London Derby. Mikel Arteta will be keen to avoid the pitfalls of their last campaign, one being how they were dumped out at this stage in a 3-1 home defeat to Brighton.
Brentford vs Arsenal Tips
With a mini injury crisis occurring over at the Emirates, Emile Smith-Rowe should be in for a start against Brentford.
The 23-year-old has suffered a prolonged spell on the sidelines, and was expected to be in the XI for Sunday's North London Derby before muscle tightness ruled him out of a start.
In the peak of the creative midfielder's powers during the 2021/22 season, he netted 11 goals from 37 appearances for Arsenal across the Premier League and this competition.
Brentford are also managing a lengthy injury list themselves, which when coupled with squad rotation for this League Cup tie, gives Smith-Rowe the opportunity to make a strong impression on his full return.
Squad rotation and player unavailability should make this more evenly matched than the fixture in name alone suggests.
Since being promoted to the Premier League three seasons ago, Brentford have taken four points from Arsenal under Thomas Frank, beating them on home soil in their first ever fixture, before earning a draw at the Emirates last season.
10 of the 24 second round ties were determined by a penalty shootout, with Brentford being included in this figure.
Last season, over a third of the ties at this stage featured a penalty shootout.
Without the burden of extra time before penalties in this cup competition, we'll take the 11/2 for Arsenal to win by this method on Wednesday instead of their price of 11/10 to do the business in 90 minutes.

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