The Gunners host Middlesbrough at the Emirates stadium while Spurs travel to Bournemouth and if both sides get wins, it will mean they will go a head of Pep Guardiola’s side.

Arsenal is level on points with Manchester City with both sides having 19 points with Spurs a point adrift.

The Gunners are unbeaten in 11 matches in all competitions and comfortably won their last game in the Champions league on Wednesday 20th, October, 2016 thrashing Ludogorets 6-0.

Alexis Sanchez was taken off through the second half sparking fears that he could have suffered an injury.

However, the Arsenal manger, Arsene Wenger quelled injury worries concerning the 27-year- old Chilean a head of their game against Middlebrough.

Speaking at his post-match news conference on Wednesday night, Wenger said: “I just wanted to give him a breather. He looks alright physically.”

Middlesbrough travel to Arsenal having not won a game in their last six league matches and are only above the relegation zone on goal difference.

Meanwhile Tottenham have got a tough game away to south coast side Bournemouth.

Spurs got a hard fought draw in the Champions League against German side Bayern Leverkusen thanks to outstanding display from Hugo Lloris.

Bournemouth cruised to a massive 6-1 win when they faced Hull City in their last game while Tottenham Hotspur are the only unbeaten side in the Premier League.

In the other games, Liverpool take on Westbrom at Anfield after drawing against Manchester United in their last game.

David Moyes will look to guide Sunderland who are bottom of the table to their first league win of the  season at West Ham, Swansea City play Watford, Stoke travel to Hull and Burnley are at home to Everton.

Sunday 23^rdOctober Fixtures

Manchester City will play Southampton at the Eastland while Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho returns to former club Chelsea.

Chelsea will look to carry on from their 3-0 win over faltering Premier League champions Leicester.

Premier League Fixtures:

Saturday:

Arsenal v Middlesbrough
Bournemouth v Tottenham
Burnley v Everton
Hull v Stoke
Leicester v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v West Brom
Swansea v Watford
West Ham v Sunderland

Sunday:

Chelsea v Manchester United
Manchester City v Southampton

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Rooney  has been getting much criticism from fans and pundits due to poor form as the England striker had gone 10 games without a goal for United prior to Wednesday.

Manchester United Captain Wayne Rooney struck a hat-trick in a 4-0 win over Club Bruges in Belgium in the 2nd leg of the Champions League play-off tie.

The United skipper kept working hard and answered back to his critics in style when he hit a hat-trick in Belgium with Ander Herrera scoring the fourth goal.

Manchester United will discover their group opponents in today’s draw in Monaco having missed out on Champions League football last season.

“To go through to the group stage after being out of it last year is a great result. We look forward to the draw now tomorrow,” said Rooney.

“It was a big disappointment last year not to challenge in it. We didn’t think it would be as comfortable as it was, but it was vital we went through any way we could.

“Over the two legs we deserved that. We’ll enjoy the draw and it is nice to be back in there again.”

Club Brugge Coach Michel Preud’homme admitted the outcome was logical for his team having not reached the group stages since the 2005/06 season.

“It’s a top team and they are top players. They have everything,” said Preud’homme of the English club.

“We are there to learn something and I hope we can learn a lot from these two confrontations.”

Meanwhile in Germany Bayern Leverkusen smashed visiting 10-man Lazio 3-0 on the night to go through 3-1 on aggregate.

Lazio had gone in Germany defending their 1-0 goal advantage and reach the group stages for the first time since the 2007/08 season but Leverkusen proved too strong for them.

Bayern Leverkusen’s Hakan Calhanoglu celebrates after scoring the opening goal against Lazio

Leverkusen scored through Hakan Calhanoglu, Admir Mehmedie and Karim Bellarabi in a game which saw Lazio’s Brazilian defender Maurício being sent off for a second yellow card in the 70^th minute.

In the other games, Astana became the first Kazakh team to qualify when they netted a late equaliser to draw 1-1 at APOEL Nicosia for a 2-1 aggregate. Serbian midfielder Nemanja Maksimovic snatched the crucial goal for Astana six minutes from time as Kazakhstan became the 32nd country to be represented in the group stage.

BATE of Belarus lost 2-1 at Partizan Belgrade but advanced on away goals after the tie ended 2-2, while CSKA Moscow eliminated Sporting Lisbon 4-3 on aggregate.

Spain are the first country to have five clubs in the group stage in one season after Valencia progressed past Monaco 4-3 on aggregate despite a 2-1 defeat at the Ligue 1 side in their playoff second leg on Tuesday.

Valencia joined Barca, Real Mdrid, Atletico Madrid and Sevilla, who qualified as last season’s Europa League winners.

Malmo, Dinamo Zagreb, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Shakhtar Donetsk are also in today’s draw after qualifying through their play-off ties on Tuesday.

Read more on uefa.com

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