Tuesday night sees 2025 end with a bang, a day before the New Year's Eve fireworks, when high-flying Aston Villa come to N5, and you can see our squad preparing for the game in our gallery.
We'll be looking to gain a measure of revenge for our late defeat at Villa Park earlier this month, but that'll be tough against a Villa side who have strung together 11 straight wins in all competitions, including eight in the Premier League.
It's a massive match to round off the year for both teams, and Mikel Arteta and his coaching staff have been developing a gameplan for the visit of Unai Emery's Villans and passing it on to our players at the Sobha Realty Training Centre.
You can see how training has been going thanks to our latest gallery of images from club photographer Stuart MacFarlane below:
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