Arsenal vs Liverpool Carabao Cup preview: How to watch, lineups, postponement, & prediction

Arsenal Team News vs Liverpool – Who Does Arteta Have Available?

At present, we don’t know.

Arteta will be speaking to the press shortly after lunchtime on Wednesday and until then it is a waiting game to find out who will be back.

In terms of who there are concerns over, the draw at Liverpool saw a number of players suffer knocks, those which ruled them out of the North London Derby. Calum Chambers, Cedric Soares and Kieran Tierney both had issues either during or post-game, but with Arsenal keeping quiet since the postponement there is little in the way of updates.

An unknown second Covid case was revealed shortly before the Spurs game, one that will rule whoever it is out of Thursday. Martin Odegaard, however, will have completed his five days of isolation and if he’s produced two negative tests he will fortunately be available for selection.

Just like everyone else there is no word on Emile Smith Rowe or Takehiro Tomiyasu, with their respective injuries hoped to have subsidised in time for them to be involved.

One person 100% certain to be out is Granit Xhaka, whose two-game suspension for a red card will start against Liverpool and end, hopefully, against Burnley in the Premier League – should that game go ahead.

Liverpool are in perfectly fine shape barring the trio who are away at AFCON, with the only apparent injury concern from their 3-0 win over Brentford being an ankle problem picked up by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

So, nothing out of the ordinary there.

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