William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes will undoubtedly continue their formidable partnership in central defence, but Arsenal have problems at full-back. Takehiro Tomiyasu is out with a knee injury and on Friday, Arteta admitted that Kieran Tierney (hamstring), Oleksandr Zinchenko (calf) and Ben White (groin) faced a race against time to be fit.

The Gunners travel to the south coast with a host of medical issues, but victory over the Cherries will lift Mikel Arteta’s side to the top of the Premier League

Mikel Arteta is sweating on a number of injuries as Arsenal prepare to return to Premier League action away to Bournemouth this weekend. In September, the Gunners suffered the blow of losing their captain Martin Odegaard to a ‘significant ankle ligament’ injury with the Norway international not expected to return to action until November.