Arsenal hope to welcome Riccardo Calafiori and Piero Hincapie back from injury in time for his or her Premier League showdown with Manchester United.
The Gunners are seven points clear a the summit of English football after Manchester City and Aston Villa dropped more points last weekend.
United head to north London off the back of an exciting derby victory over Pep Guardiola’s side, turning in perhaps their best performance of the season in Michael Carrick’s first game in charge.
Arsenal have had a comparatively clean bill of health as of late but have been without Riccardo Calafiori since Christmas.
The Italy international has not played for the reason that Carabao Cup win over Crystal Palace having pulled out of the warm-up ahead of the sport against Brighton on 27 December.
Hincapie was Mikel Arteta’s preferred choice to fill in at left-back however the summer signing has also been sidelined with a groin injury suffered within the goalless draw with Liverpool.
Each defenders were spotted back in training on Friday morning suggesting they shall be available for the visit of United.
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Arteta was as coy as ever when asked for an update on the pair in his pre-match press conference.
‘We’ve one other training session. We’ll see tomorrow after that. After Inter we had no [injury] issues reported,’ the Arsenal boss said.
With the returns of Calafiori and Hincapie, Arteta now has a totally fir squad at his disposal with Max Dowman the one absentee, still recovering from an ankle injury.
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