The late penalty given to West Brom in yesterday’s 1-1 with Arsenal may have cost the Gunners two important points, but it has also dealt serious injury blows to the squad ahead of the even more important meeting with Chelsea on Wednesday.
Aaron Ramsey, Olivier Giroud and Nacho Monreal were already out of contention, and Arsene Wenger told us that Mesut Ozil had picked up a knee injury and missed the West Brom game and must be considered doubtful for Chelsea as well. To add insult to injury both Laurent Koscielny and Saed Kolasinac limped off the pitch to double our quota of unavailable players.
Now Wenger is going to have some real problems naming a strong team to face Antonio Conte’s team so let us look at possible line-ups Arsenal could send out…..
If the boss was looking at going with his 4-3-3 formation he has used recently I would choose
Cech
Bellerin Mustafi Chambers Maitland-Niles
Wilshere Coquelin Xhaka
Iwobi Lacazette Sanchez
Wenger reverted to three at the back yesterday with Mustafi back in the side, so if he decided to stay with that then this is the set-up I would expect…
Cech
Holding Mustafi Chambers
Bellerin Wilshere Xhaka Maitland-Niles
Iwobi Lacazette Sanchez
This would leave Walcott, Welbeck, Elneny, Ospina and Mertesacker on the bench.
What line-up would you choose from the players available? And would they be good enough to beat Chelsea?
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