Arsenal return to Premier League action on Boxing Day as they face Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium.
The game will mark Mikel Arteta's very first in charge following his appointment as head coach last Friday - three weeks on from the club parting company with Unai Emery.
It finished 1-0 to the Gunners in the reverse meeting at the Emirates Stadium earlier in the season thanks to David Luiz's first goal for the club following his summer transfer from Chelsea.
Amazingly, the north London outfit have won just twice since that game.
They will be slight favourites to pick up all three points against a Cherries side which has lost six of their last seven games - including a 1-0 home loss at the hands of Burnley last time out.
Although, they did beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge earlier in the month.
The good news for Arteta is that Hector Bellerin, Rob Holding and Dani Ceballos all trained ahead of the trip to the South Coast as he plots to correct the Gunners' record against teams in the bottom half of the table.
"We will try to put the most competitive team against that team," Arteta said during his pre-match press conference.
"We know how tricky that stadium is and how complicated they are going to make it for us but we have to be ready.
"We analyse opponents, we have to try to nullify them as much as possible, and make, as I said before, as predictable as possible for us so when our players jump in that pitch they know what they are facing."
Elsewhere, the Gunners squad including the likes of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette, Mesut Ozil and Nicolas Pepe were put through their paces at the club's training base at London Colney on Monday afternoon.
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