Arsène Wenger sat down for his customary pre-match press conference ahead of tonight’s Champions League clash against Dinamo Zagreb. Wenger revealed the following team news:
on team news…
“Coquelin and Arteta are out. Arteta is short-term and Coquelin is longer. How big the damage is we don’t know but we will know for certain this [Monday] afternoon. Everyone from Saturday’s game is available and Ramsey is available.”
So it will be Ramsey who will play alongside Santi Cazorla in the middle of the park, while Calum Chambers is an option that Wenger could try. On the right flank, it will be Joel Campbell or Alexis Sánchez and if the latter plays on the right, it will be another outing for Gibbs to play upfront alongside Giroud and Ozil.
on Coquelin’s injury…
“It is at least a month. I’m a bit cautious as we have had so many bad surprises on the scans… but the team for the next few months will be without Coquelin.”
on getting more injuries than most clubs…
“It looks like that at the moment. I must say we have been hit very hard in November as until November and the Sheffield Wednesday game we had quite a good record and since then we lost a few players. But now we have Ramsey and for the weekend Oxlade-Chamberlain will be back as well. After that Walcott will be the next one. [As for] the players who have long-term injuries, basically some of them are from last season like Rosicky and Welbeck.”