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Yaya Sanogo returns to Arsenal's Champions League squad while Danny Welbeck and Per Mertesacker make the cut after recovering from injury

Arsenal have submitted their Champions League squad for the knockout stages and to much surprise, striker Yaya Sanogo has made the cut.

Sanogo hasn't played a competitive fixture since April due to injury, when he was on loan for Charlton, but Arsene Wenger has added him to the squad.

Speaking after Arsenal's EFL Cup defeat by Southampton at the end of November, Wenger says he couldn't explain Sanogo's latest injury as the details were 'confidential'.

French striker Yaya Sanogo has been named in Arsenal's Champions League squad
French striker Yaya Sanogo has been named in Arsenal's Champions League squad

'He had a real medical problem that I cannot explain to you here because it is a confidential problem,' Wenger told the Daily Mirror.