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Mikel Arteta has immoderate immense selections to marque erstwhile Arsenal instrumentality connected Tottenham successful the northbound London derby this afternoon.
Declan Rice misses out aft his reddish paper against Brighton and Arteta’s problems lone got worse during the planetary break.
New signing Mikel Merino is besides unavailable aft the Spain international injured successful his precise archetypal grooming league with the nine aft a collision with Gabriel Magalhaes.
Merino has suffered a fractured enarthrosis with Arsenal expecting him to beryllium unavailable until aft the adjacent planetary interruption successful mid-October.
There was much misery for Arsenal with nine skipper Odegaard forced disconnected during Norway’s clash with Austria connected Monday night.
Early indications were the skipper has suffered a sprained ankle after leaving the transportation successful agony. While reports person suggested Odegaard is facing 3 weeks out, Arteta refused to regularisation the midfielder retired of this afternoon’s showdown astatine the Totttenham Hotspur Stadium.
It leaves the Arsenal manager with the midfield options of Thomas Partey and Jorginho. With numbers desperately short, Arteta whitethorn see dropping Kai Havertz backmost into a midfield role, moving Jurrien Timber further up the pitch, oregon adjacent manus a relation to 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri.
Raheem Sterling is pushing to marque his debut with a week of grooming with his caller broadside nether his belt. Gabriel Martinelli has struggled to marque an interaction truthful acold this play with Leandro Trossard’s champion enactment to day coming disconnected the bench.
Arteta has been anxious for his deadline time signing to get progressive ‘as soon arsenic possible’ and volition anticipation helium tin person immoderate relation to play this weekend.
Arsenal person been without injured duo Takehiro Tomiyasu and Kieran Tierney for the commencement of the play with Gabriel Jesus joining the absentee list, missing the games against Aston Villa and Brighton with a groin injury.
There was bully quality connected Jesus connected Friday with Arteta confirming the guardant is backmost successful grooming and ‘if everything goes well, volition beryllium successful the squad today.
The Gunners brag was besides near sweating during the planetary interruption with Riccardo Calafiori progressive successful a nasty collision with France’s Ousmane Dembele connected Friday.
The Italy planetary was being assessed implicit the play but is successful contention to marque the squad today.
Tottenham meantime received a treble boost this week with some Micky van de Ven and Dominic Solanke disposable today.
The Netherlands planetary started the archetypal 2 games of the play but missed the decision astatine Newcastle United aft being deemed ‘not rather 100 per cent’ by Ange Postecoglou, missing Nations League games arsenic a result.
The Spurs brag insisted the sound was ‘nothing serious’, a precautionary measurement possibly fixed the packed fixture database implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.
Solanke suffered an ankle wounded connected his debut against Leicester City has seen him miss the past 2 games. Poestecoglou nevertheless did suggest his £65million signing was adjacent to being acceptable for the Newcastle crippled and volition person a relation to play this afternoon.
There was interest for Yves Bissouma aft helium picked up a sound playing for Mali during the planetary interruption but Ange Postecoglou hopeful helium tin retrieve successful time.
‘We had the past of the boys successful precocious yesterday truthful we’ll person a look astatine them contiguous and everyone’s reporting each good but for Biss,’ the Spurs brag said connected Friday.
‘He’s got a spot of an issue, but we’ll person a look astatine him implicit the adjacent mates of days and spot however it settles.’
Richarlison meantime remains sidelined.
Predicted Tottenham XI to look Arsenal
Vicario, Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie, Sarr, Bentancur, Maddison, Kulusevski, Solanke, Son
Predicted Arsenal XI to look Tottenham
Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel. Timber, Jorginho, Partey, Havertz, Saka, Trossard, Sterling
Where to ticker Man Utd vs Liverpool? Kick-off clip and TV channel
Tottenham vs Arsenal kicks disconnected astatine 2pm connected Sunday 15 September.
Live sum is disposable connected Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Main Event, with a unrecorded watercourse disposable connected Sky Go.
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