LONDON (Sporting Alert) — Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says midfielder Tomas Rosicky faces a fitness test ahead of Saturday’s English Barclays Premier League trip to leaders Chelsea on Saturday.
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Rosicky is doubtful for the game with the league leaders as he’s being bothered by an ankle injury.
“We have a doubt about Rosicky,” Wenger said on Arsenal.com. “He will have a test this [Friday] morning on his ankle.
“Apart from that we have no major problem. That issue will be decided after training, everybody else will be available.”
Meanwhile, for Chelsea, Midfielders Ramires and Willian will both miss the game through suspension, following their sending off in the defeat at Aston Villa.
Chelsea (squads): Cech, Ivanovic, Luiz, Lampard, Torres, Oscar, Mikel, Schurrle, Salah, Hazard, Ba, Matic, Schwarzer, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Eto’o, Blackman, Kalas.
Arsenal (squads): Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Arteta, Flamini, Podolski, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Giroud, Fabianski, Monreal, Vermaelen, Gnabry, Sanogo, Jenkinson, Rosicky, Kallstrom.
