Previews

Toure, Eboue and Song are now long gone. Other than that everyone’s available really. Adebayor and Hleb both had niggles before the Burnley game

With the Spuds game around the corner, Le Boss decided not to field a complete "reserve" side. Amazing, we must be the only club in the history of the universe to rest our second string

Van Persie is out till possibly the Birmingham league game. Gilberto may return to the squad after illness, Walcott may have aggravated his shoulder

Robin van Persie is still unavailable, but he is our only major injury concern. I expect that the next time we see him will be in the next league game against Birmingham

Wenger may be tempted to change it a little for this match. Not that Everton away is an obvious game to start resting everyone

Van Persie will be our only definite absentee. Wenger says he’ll probably play some part against Everton, but this fixture is a bit too early for him

Theo Walcott won’t be available for the squad after pussying out of the kick fest up north complaining of illness. He recovered from his knock against Steaua Bucharest though, and could conceivably make the bench

Theo Walcott and Emmanuel Eboue are the only injury worries for us ahead of this game, and according to Wenger’s comments last week Theo should be ready for this game. Eboue probably wouldn’t have been involved if Theo was available anyway

Van Persie and Diaby are now hopefully match fit and will be in the squad. Going by Wenger’s most recent comments about Fabregas, Hleb and Flamini, I would guess that they will all be in the squad, pending fitness tests

We’ve become spoilt by watching our team play beautiful football and winning most of the games this season in the process, but a time comes in every season when we play a bit shit, and you just hope you get through the period unscathed.