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Tom Doyle

Barcelona vs Arsenal lineups: Confirmed team news and predicted XIs for Joan Gamper Trophy

Arsenal head to Camp Nou to face Barcelona for the Joan Gamper Trophy with club-record signing Nicolas Pepe in tow.

Pepe completed a £72million transfer from Lille on Thursday, but is unlikely to feature for Unai Emery's side on Sunday as he bids to get up to speed for the new season.

With Emery not short of attacking options, the 24-year-old winger is more likely to feature in the Gunners' Premier League opener at Newcastle on 11 August

Alexandre Lacazette may well feature having trained at London Colney on Thursday after suffering a sprained ankle in the defeat by former club Lyon.

Lucas Torreira and Mohamed Elneny are back after their respective international exertions, while Real Madrid loanee Dani Ceballos should be named in the starting lineup having been omitted from the squad to face Angers.

Laurent Koscielny's stand-off with Arsenal continues, while Hector Bellerin, ​Rob Holding, Konstantinos Mavropanos and Emile Smith Rowe are still sidelined.

It remains to be seen if Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac will return after the pair missed the matches against Lyon and Angers having been targeted in an attempted car-jacking last week.

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As for Barcelona, Luis Suarez is back in training but Lionel Messi has yet to return from his post-Copa America break.

Gerard Pique has also resumed training after missing the win over Vissel Kobe.

Malcom, meanwhile, has travelled to Russia to complete formalities ahead of his move to Zenit St Petersburg.

Barcelona XI: Ter Stegen, Semedo, Pique, Umtiti, Alba, Roberto, Busquets, Rakitic, Dembele, Griezmann, Suarez

Arsenal XI: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Chambers, Monreal, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Ceballos, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang, Nketiah

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