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Team news: Arteta mixes youth with experience

For our first game of our US Tour, Mikel Arteta has named a starting XI mixed with youth and experience for our game against Bournemouth in Los Angeles.

Eddie Nketiah captains the side and leads the line, with Fabio Vieira and Reiss Nelson supporting him in attack, but a young midfield duo of Ethan Nwaneri and Salah-Eddine Oulad M'Hand are joined by Thomas Partey.

Fellow under-21 teammates Myles Lewis-Skelly and Aidan Heaven are also named in the line-up, with Karl Hein playing in front of a backline containing international experience in Ben White and Jurrien Timber.

There is plenty more on the bench, where Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Jesus are joined by Euro 2024 stars Oleksandr Zinchenko, Jakub Kiwior, Jorginho and Leandro Trossard, plus Emile Smith Rowe.