The second leg of Arsenal’s Carabao Cup semi-final against Liverpool is set to go ahead on Thursday night.
The Gunners are confident some of the injury issues that contributed to their request to postpone the north London derby will have eased for Liverpool’s visit to the Emirates.
Mikel Arteta was without at least 14 players last weekend, but Martin Odegaard’s Covid isolation is over while Bukayo Saka, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Calum Chambers and Cedric Soares had minor injuries that Arsenal hope will have cleared up.
The club are still awaiting contact from Gabon over when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will be released to return to London after his country said he would come back for medical checks after suffering post-Covid complications.