Nottingham Forest have made a confusing start to the season, with decent performances at Liverpool and Villa undermined by home defeats to Leeds and Coventry. The latter defeat was followed last week by a result at Palace, while only Spurs have mustered fewer than their five league goals.
Forest will look to play into and off Delap, who will be looking to pin a centre-back and lay off for McAtee and Ndoye to run at the Arsenal defence.
Arsenal spent the summer trying to buy forwards because they lack elite attacking quality, which has unarguably cost them despite doing well over the last few seasons. However, their best summer acquisition was the status of champions.
In other matches, a tousing at Brighton was followed by a comeback win against Leeds and a Champions League win with a rotated team.