Good and bad news for Wenger as Arsenal look to finish off Sparta at home.With Senderos injured in the warm up on Saturday, and Sagna limping off only 20 minutes in to the match, anyone thinking that we might see Gilberto, or worse, Alex Song, in defence against Sparta will have had their fears eased by the fact that Senderos has made a recovery from his ankle injury in time for this game.
“The injuries are Eboue (ankle), Gallas (groin) and Lehmann (Achilles),” said the Frenchman at Tuesday’s press conference. “Sagna is injured too with a kick in the back but he should return for Portsmouth on Sunday. Senderos is back in the squad.”
With the tie all but over really at 2-0 from the first leg, I am not sure whether Wenger might even rest a couple of our key players from the starting line up. The fact that Theo Walcott was left from the squad for the Man City squad would suggest to me that he will be starting come 8 o'clock tomorrow, but we'll have to wait and see. If Theo does start, I would imagine it will be to replace Hleb. And with the way that Sparta played in the first game, it may be wise also to rest star duo Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie, with the perfectly able Denilson replacing the Spaniard and perhaps Eduardo being joined by Bendtner (replacing Adebayor) up front. I would definitely love to see a combination of little and large in Eduardo and Bendtner as our striking force in this game.
This is the team I'm guessing we'll see at any rate:
---------------------------------- Almunia ----------------------------------
Hoyte ------------------- Toure ------------- Senderos -------------- Clichy
Walcott ----------------- Denilson ----------- Flamini ----------- Rosicky
-------------------------- Eduardo ---------- Bendtner ---------------------
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