Arsenal lineup vs. Napoli: Predicted XI as Mikel Arteta makes two changes for Champions League

Arsenal caput manager Mikel Arteta could marque 2 changes for Wednesday's Champions League league-phase opener distant to Napoli astatine the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.

The Gunners are 4 for 4 successful each tournaments this play aft Sunday's 2-1 Premier League triumph implicit Chelsea, which Cristhian Mosquera missed owed to a muscular injury.

The Spanish defender has not been ruled retired of the European fixture conscionable yet, but the lucifer volition apt travel excessively soon for Jurrien Timber (groin), portion William Saliba (back) is simply a semipermanent absentee.

Mosquera's contented opened the doorway for Ezri Konsa to marque his afloat Arsenal debut against Chelsea, and the England planetary is primed to articulation Gabriel Magalhaes successful the bosom of defence erstwhile more.

However, Arteta mightiness beryllium minded to swap retired Riccardo Calafiori for Piero Hincapie successful a like-for-like change, for nary crushed different than preserving fittingness levels amid the choky turnaround.

Martin Zubimendi is besides pressing for a midfield callback implicit Myles Lewis-Skelly, but Bruno Guimaraes is apt to beryllium spared, having lone been an unused substitute connected Sunday pursuing a knock.

The in-form beforehand 4 of Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka, Christos Tzolis and Martin Odegaard should stay untouched; the second has already scored treble the magnitude of goals this play (three) than helium managed successful the entirety of 2025-26 (one).

Arsenal imaginable starting lineup:

Raya; White, Konsa, Gabriel, Hincapie; Zubimendi, Rice; Saka, Odegaard, Tzolis; Havertz