The Premier League returns at the moment following the worldwide break and the primary north London derby of the season kicks off this weekend’s motion.
Arsenal welcome Tottenham at the Emirates – stay on talkSPORT – because the Gunners purpose to take care of their place on the prime of the desk.
Nonetheless, Mikel Arteta might be and not using a key participant heading into the necessary fixture towards Antonio Conte’s unbeaten Spurs.
Midfielder Thomas Partey returned early from international duty with Ghana after selecting up a knee harm.
Partey withdrew from the line-up solely minutes earlier than kick-off towards Brazil on Friday after feeling discomfort within the warm-up.
He has already missed three fixtures for Arsenal this season and made his return within the Gunners’ win towards Brentford final trip.
If he’s to have one other spell on the sidelines, it’s going to sum up his luck in an injury-plagued Arsenal profession thus far.
This is bad reading for the Gunners but Ghana boss Otto Addo has helped to reduce concerns of a serious injury.
Addo said: “Hopefully Thomas will be healthy very, very soon.
“We didn’t want to take that risk in a friendly game to play him against Brazil.”
But Partey has been assessed ahead of the derby and Arteta has decided to include him in the matchday squad.
Arsenal have also included Kieran Tierney and Oleksandr Zinchenko, who were doubts.
But Mohamed Elneny, Reiss Nelson, Emile Smith Rowe and Cedric Soares are out.
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