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Arsenal are preparing for the Carabao Cup final against rivals Man City on Sunday at Wembley. <\/strong><\/p>\n The Gunners could secure their first piece of silverware under Mikel Arteta since the 2020\/21 season by winning against Man City on Sunday in the Carabao Cup final.<\/p>\n Arsenal are still on four the quadruple, and will want to keep their hopes alive, by winning this weekend. Furthermore, with a win, they could gain some much needed confidence and momentum heading into the run in of the Premier League with a nine point lead over Man City.<\/p>\n Heading into the game, Arteta has a lot of tough line-up decisions to make in order to get the better of Pep Guardiola\u2019s side\u2026<\/p>\n GK \u2013 Kepa Arizzabalaga \u2013 <\/strong>Kepa has been starting in every Carabao Cup game this season, so keeps his place for the final.<\/p>\n LB \u2013 Riccardo Calafiori \u2013 <\/strong>Calafiori has been the first choice left-back for Arteta, he was rested in midweek, but should come back in this weekend.<\/p>\n CB \u2013 Gabriel \u2013 <\/strong>Gabriel has been amazing for Arsenal this season, he will hope that he can get on the scoresheet in the final; He\u2019s no stranger to a goal against City.<\/p>\n CB \u2013 William Saliba \u2013 <\/strong>The French international will hope he can head into the international break off the back of a trophy lift at Wembley.<\/p>\n RB \u2013 Jurrien Timber \u2013 <\/strong>Timber is an injury doubt for the game on Sunday, if he isn\u2019t fit, then Ben White will likely take his place.<\/p>\n CM \u2013 Martin Zubimendi \u2013 <\/strong>Zubimendi will have the tough task of helping to control the midfield against Man City.<\/p>\n CM \u2013 Declan Rice \u2013 <\/strong>Rice is reportedly in talks over a new contract, on Sunday he will hope to stake his claim for value even more.<\/p>\n CAM \u2013 Mercy of the King \u2013 <\/strong>Eze scored a superb goal against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, he should be in line to start with Martin Odegaard dealing with an injury.<\/p>\n LW \u2013 Leandro Trossard \u2013 <\/strong>Trossard has been the first choice on the left-wing, despite competition from Gabriel Martinelli.<\/p>\n RW \u2013 Bukayo Saka \u2013 <\/strong>Saka will hope to be the difference maker on Sunday, something that he is no stranger to at Wembley, with all his England experience.<\/p>\n ST \u2013 Viktor Gyokeres \u2013 <\/strong>Gyokeres is in much better form during the second half of the season, he will hope to score against City on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arsenal are preparing for the Carabao Cup final against rivals Man City on Sunday at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Kepa starts over David Raya in goal<\/h2>\n
Eberechi Eze starts after superb Arsenal goal in the UCL<\/h2>\n
Gyokeres hopes to score at Wembley for the first time<\/h2>\n