Arsenal v Wolves live: Team news and line-ups from Premier League clash tonight

The teams will be confirmed in about 30 minutes or so – here’s how they could line up:

Arsenal XI: Raya; White, Timber, Hincapie, Lewis-Skelly; Odegaard, Norgaard, Rice; Saka, Gyokeres, Eze.

Wolves XI: Johnstone; Krejci, Agbadou, Toti; Tchatchoua, Gomes, Andre, Wolfe; Lopez; Arokodare, Strand Larsen.

Gyokeres’ last goal for Arsenal came in a 2-0 win at Burnley before he was sidelined for almost a month with a hamstring injury.

But Arteta continued: “We have to put him (Gyokeres) in the best possible condition to explode and fulfil his potential.

“Before the injury, he was in a great place. It took him a while at the beginning because it’s a different league with different demands.

“He had no pre-season and now he’s starting to get some momentum, but the thing that’s going to unlock him is goals.

“He needs that for himself, for his confidence, and we’re going to judge his performances based on that as well. That’s logical, but he wants it so badly as well.”

“There was a lot of excitement because we were bringing a proven scorer that had probably the best stats in Europe,” said Arteta of the Sweden international.

“He is a player that comes to a different league, the most demanding league in the world, and what happens if he doesn’t score for five or six games?

“That was my only question to him: ‘How are you going to react if you don’t score in five or six games? Can you cope with that? And then what’s going to happen in the next 100 games?’

“And that’s what you have to see. The sample is very small. So, leave him alone, let him do what he does best, be behind him and I’m sure things will turn out in the right way.”

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has told Viktor Gyokeres’ critics to “leave him alone” – despite admitting the £64m striker needs to start scoring.

Gyokeres has found the back of the net in just four of his 17 appearances for Arsenal so far, and he was replaced on the hour mark by the returning Gabriel Jesus in the club’s 3-0 Champions League win over Club Brugge in midweek.

Arsenal were wooed by Gyokeres scoring 97 times across 102 appearances for Sporting Lisbon.

But his return of just six goals for Arteta’s side – and his failure to find the back of the net in his past four matches since returning from a hamstring injury – puts his form in the spotlight ahead of Arsenal’s Premier League clash against Wolves at the Emirates tonight.

Arsenal enjoyed a boost in midweek as Gabriel Jesus returned from nearly a whole year on the sidelines, after sustaining an ACL injury in January. The Brazilian came off the bench and proved difficult for Club Brugge to handle, rattling the crossbar late on, so could be in line for another substitute appearance today.

The Gunners are also likely to have Declan Rice back after he was ill for their European fixture, but Riccardo Calafiori will miss out after accumulating too many yellow cards, in another defensive blow for the much-depleted Gunners.

Max Dowman, Cristhian Mosquera, Leandro Trossard, Gabriel Magalhaes and Kai Havertz will all be sidelined with injuries, while Arteta will be sweating on the fitness of William Saliba and Jurrien Timber, who have both picked up knocks.

Wolves will have Joao Gomes back from a yellow-card suspension but will have to do without Rodrigo Gomes, Leon Chiwone, Daniel Bentley and Marshall Munetsi, while Bellegarde picked up an injury against Manchester United and may miss out.

Arsenal host Wolves at the Emirates Stadium tonight with kick-off at 8pm GMT.

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But despite a leaky defence hit by injuries to star duo Gabriel and William Saliba, Arsenal are on firm ground at the Emirates, where they are unbeaten in the league this season – and they shouldn’t have much to fear against rock-bottom Wolves.

Rob Edwards’ side are in line for one of the Premier League’s most unwanted records; with just two points from 15 games they’re on course to finish with fewer than Derby’s infamous benchmark of 11, and endured yet more misery in a 4-1 hammering by Manchester United on Monday.

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