Arsenal lineup vs. Atletico Madrid: Predicted XI for Champions League semi-final second leg

Arsenal skipper Martin Odegaard and striker Kai Havertz stay flimsy fittingness doubts for Tuesday's Champions League semi-final 2nd limb against Atletico Madrid astatine the Emirates.

Mikel Arteta was without some players for Saturday's 3-0 Premier League triumph implicit Fulham, Odegaard owed to a genu wounded and Havertz arsenic a effect of a muscular problem.

However, the Spaniard expressed anticipation that some would beryllium disposable for the 2nd limb with Atletico, though helium whitethorn take to err connected the broadside of caution fixed some players' fittingness struggles this season.

Odegaard suffered his stroke successful past week's 1-1 first-leg draw, successful which Viktor Gyokeres became the first-ever Swedish subordinate to people successful a Champions League semi-final erstwhile helium converted his first-half penalty.

Fresh from netting different 2 goals against Fulham, Gyokeres could spearhead an unchanged onslaught besides comprising Leandro Trossard and Bukayo Saka, who scored and assisted during an exceptional 45 minutes connected Saturday.

If Odegaard is not risked from the archetypal whistle, Eberechi Eze volition inhabit the fig 10 relation successful beforehand of Declan Rice and Martin Zubimendi, who should displace Myles Lewis-Skelly contempt the Englishman's standout show astatine the weekend.

Piero Hincapie should beryllium a consecutive swap for Riccardo Calafiori too, but with Jurrien Timber (groin) inactive missing, Ben White is expected to reprise his relation astatine right-back.

Arsenal imaginable starting lineup:

Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie; Rice, Zubimendi; Saka, Eze, Trossard; Gyokeres

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