Piero Hincapie returns as one of eight changes for our home clash against Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League.
Our Ecuadorian centre-back missed our Carabao Cup quarter-final victory over Crystal Palace but returns to partner William Saliba in the back-line.
David Raya replaces penalty shootout hero Kepa Arrizabalaga in goal. Riccardo Calafiori, Mikel Merino and Saliba are the three players to keep their places from our quarter-final victory.
Martin Zubimendi, Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard and Viktor Gyokeres, who all started our last Premier League contest against Everton, come back into the starting line-up for the match against the Seagulls.
As for our visitors, captain Lewis Dunk and Diego Gomez return from their one-game suspensions. Jan Paul van Hecke partners Dunk as he returns from injury. Former Gunner Danny Welbeck is on the bench.
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line-ups
Arsenal: Raya, Saliba, Hincapie, Calafiori, Zubimendi, Rice, Merino, Odegaard, Saka, Trossard, Gyokeres
Subs: Arrizabalaga, Gabriel, Jesus, Eze, Martinelli, Norgaard, Madueke, Nwaneri, Lewis-Skelly
Brighton: Verbruggen, van Hecke, Coppola, Dunk, De Cuyper, Ayari, Hinshelwood, Gomez, Gruda, Kadioglu, Rutter
Subs: Steele, Minteh, Watson, Welbeck, Kostoulas, Milner, Boscagli, Wieffer, Veltman
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