William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes will undoubtedly continue their formidable partnership in central defence, but Arsenal have problems at full-back. Takehiro Tomiyasu is out with a knee injury and on Friday, Arteta admitted that Kieran Tierney (hamstring), Oleksandr Zinchenko (calf) and Ben White (groin) faced a race against time to be fit.

Arsenal make the trip to the South Coast this weekend to face Andoni Iraola’s Bournemouth on Saturday evening.The Gunners are vying to extend their unbeaten run to 11 games, but due to the

Arsenal hope to have Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz available to start when they return to Premier League action away to Bournemouth this evening. In September, the Gunners suffered the blow of losing their captain Martin Odegaard to a ‘significant ankle ligament’ injury with the Norway international not expected to return to action until November.