Arsenal centre-back William Saliba is unlikely to be available for Tuesday's Premier League London derby with Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium.

The France international is taking longer than initially expected to recover from a back injury, and there are concerns that he may not play again before the end of the season.

Saliba is being kept company in the medical bay by Takehiro Tomiyasu and Mohamed Elneny, who will miss the rest of the campaign with knee injuries, but Mikel Arteta's squad is otherwise in good shape.

With Saliba watching on from the sidelines again, Rob Holding - who came up with a well-taken consolation against Manchester City amid a torrid defensive display - should be given the nod to join Gabriel Magalhaes in front of Aaron Ramsdale.

Ben White and Oleksandr Zinchenko will complete an unchanged rearguard for the Gunners, and the same can be said for Granit Xhaka and Thomas Partey at the base of the midfield.

Martin Odegaard, Gabriel Jesus and Bukayo Saka are indispensable in the Arsenal attack, and the latter could become the first Arsenal man since Alexis Sanchez in 2014-15 to score and assist in four separate Premier League home games in a single season.

Arteta will keep changes to a minimum as per, but Leandro Trossard set up Holding's strike at the Etihad and was a bright spark in his half-hour cameo, so he may have played his way into a start over Gabriel Martinelli.

Arsenal possible starting lineup: Ramsdale; White, Holding, Gabriel, Zinchenko; Xhaka, Partey; Saka, Odegaard, Trossard; Jesus

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