The big news is that Henrikh Mkhitaryan, David Ospina and Alex Iwobi are all back from injury in time for the match. They all picked up knocks against Manchester United over the weekend, but returned to training on Wednesday in time for the game.

Alexandre Lacazette, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Özil, Jack Wilshere, Laurent Koscielny and Shkodran Mustafi all missed out completely over the weekend. It therefore seems pretty likely we’ll see the six of them return to the starting line-up after their rests.

There were some hoping that after Konstantinos Mavropanos’ fantastic debut on Sunday, he might get a chance at the back. I can’t see it happening though, the match is too important for Wenger to gamble.

Nacho Monreal dropped to the bench for Manchester United, with Sead Kolasinac taking his place. Kolasinac is also back in training after the knock he picked up that game, but Monreal will probably start over him on Thursday.

Granit Xhaka and Hector Bellerin played the full 90 minutes at Old Trafford, but I don’t think that will stop them playing another on Thursday. The pair are too irreplaceable in the current side. Plus Mohamed Elneny is still a strong doubt for the match anyway.

Danny Welbeck started last week, and came off the bench at the weekend. However, Mkhitaryan’s return will probably see the Englishman drop to the bench.

David Ospina should play in goal, but it’s become a near impossible task to guess the goalkeeper in recent weeks. They’re each playing both competitions almost as often as each other.

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