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Tashan Deniran-Alleyne

Full Arsenal squad for Europa League clash vs Dundalk revealed

Arsenal will be looking to return to winning ways tonight.

The Gunners are back in action four days after losing at home to Leicester City as they take on Dundalk on matchday two of this season's Europa League campaign.

Both teams had differing results last week as Arsenal came from behind to beat Rapid Wien 2-1, while Dundalk lost by the same scoreline despite taking the lead against Molde.

Speaking ahead of the game, Mikel Arteta addressed the strengths and weaknesses of the Irish side.

"As I’ve said, their strengths are the unity of the team and how hard they work together and how well they are organised," the Arsenal manager said in his pre-match press conference.

"There are a few bits where they look really dangerous in certain contexts. Against us in certain situations, it’s a little more complicated, but yes, if you allow any team time and space, they will create issues.

"They’re really strong on set-pieces as well and I’m sure they will have prepared them for tomorrow, so we will have to control the normal aspects we do every week."

Ahead of tonight's clash against Dundalk, Arteta will be without as many as six first-team players as Pablo Mari, David Luiz, Rob Holding, and Gabriel Martinelli miss out through injury.

Meanwhile, Mesut Ozil and Sokratis Papastathopoulos are ineligible having not been registered for the Europa League squad.

Although, Willian is in contention to return to the starting XI after missing the defeat against Leicester with a slight calf problem and Calum Chambers is now back in full training.

Even with those six absentees, Arteta has no shortage of options to choose from with no other fresh injury concerns and could opt to rotate his team ahead of Sunday's game at Manchester United.

Full Arsenal squad

*Mikel Arteta is able to select from both lists:

A-List:

Goalkeepers: Bernd Leno, Runar Runarsson, Matt Macey, James Hillson

Defenders: Hector Bellerin, Kieran Tierney, Gabriel, Cedric, Shkodran Mustafi, Calum Chambers, Sead Kolasinac

Midfielders: Dani Ceballos, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Thomas Partey, Mohamed Elneny, Granit Xhaka

Forwards: Willian, Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Nicolas Pepe

B-List:

Goalkeepers: Karl Hein, Arthur Okonkwo

Defenders: Joel Lopez, Ryan Alebiosu

Midfielders: Bukayo Saka, Ben Cottrell, Miguel Azeez, Jordan McEneff, Joe Willock, Emile Smith Rowe

Forwards: Reiss Nelson, Eddie Nketiah, Folarin Balogun

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