Arsenal caput manager Mikel Arteta is facing a right-back situation for Saturday evening's Premier League conflict with Brighton & Hove Albion astatine the Amex Stadium.
The Gunners triumphed 3-1 implicit Brentford successful their New Year's Day battle, but the triumph did not travel without sacrifice, arsenic Jurrien Timber was booked for the 5th clip this play and indispensable present service a one-game suspension.
Timber's lack coupled with Ben White and Takehiro Tomiyasu's genu injuries means that Arsenal person nary elder right-backs disposable for the travel to the South Coast, wherever Thomas Partey should commencement arsenic an exigency defender.
The Ghana planetary volition beryllium escaped to determination into a full-back relation if either Declan Rice oregon Kai Havertz - who missed the triumph implicit Brentford wholly owed to unwellness - are capable to plug the midfield gap, and the erstwhile should surely beryllium considered for a callback to the archetypal XI.
Arteta mightiness spot acceptable to persist with Mikel Merino successful the near 8 relation aft his extremity successful Wednesday's derby, but Riccardo Calafiori did not screen himself successful glory and mightiness marque mode for a well-rested Myles Lewis-Skelly.
Ethan Nwaneri became the Premier League's youngest-ever subordinate erstwhile helium made an quality astatine Brentford successful September 2022, and implicit 2 years later, the 17-year-old made his archetypal top-flight commencement astatine the Gtech Community Stadium connected New Year's Day.
Nwaneri did himself arrogant successful the lack of Bukayo Saka, but Arteta whitethorn not deem him acceptable for successive Premier League starts conscionable yet, truthful Leandro Trossard could instrumentality arsenic Gabriel Martinelli switches flanks.
Arsenal imaginable starting lineup:
Raya; Partey, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly; Odegaard, Rice, Merino; Martinelli, Jesus, Trossard
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