The Gunners have won all three of their Group H matches so far and another success in Ukraine would secure their passage to the next phase with two fixtures to spare.

Arsenal were comfortable 5-1 winners in their last meeting with Shakhtar a fortnight ago, but manager Arsene Wenger will be wary of complacency at Donbass Arena.

Wenger's men head into the fixture in fine form having won their previous five outings in all competitions.

Fabregas
The Frenchman, however, is without several players, including skipper Cesc Fabregas, who is absent with a hamstring strain sustained in the 1-0 win over West Ham.

Andrey Arshavin and Alex Song have not made the trip through injury but Jack Wilshere, who signed a new deal with the club on Monday, is available.

Robin van Persie (ankle), Thomas Vermaelen (Achilles), Manuel Almunia (elbow), Abou Diaby (ankle) and Emmanuel Frimpong (knee) all remain sidelined.

Eduardo
Ukrainian Premier League champions Shakhtar sit second on six points in Group H while they head into this tie off the back of a league triumph.

Domestically, Shakhtar boast a five-point lead at the summit after defeating FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovs 1-0 on Saturday.

Jadson (foot) missed the weekend match and is unlikely to play against Arsenal while Henrik Mkhitaryan is absent as is Fernandinho.

Striker Eduardo, who scored his side's only goal at Arsenal, will be hopeful of starting versus the side he left in the summer.

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Copy copy and overlifting! May God save us from the spirit of plagiarism! Oya Pray, fire,fire,fire,die,die,die!

A tough one, but i see arsenal winning.

@OP/Mod,
Kindly update the kick-off time to 8:45pm

fstranger:

Copy copy and overlifting! May God save us from the spirit of plagiarism! Oya Pray, fire,fire,fire,die,die,die!

You need prayers, too.@Topic . Gunaz = 3 points.

Theoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Incisive play by Arsenal there. . . .Wilshere to Walcott. . . . GOALLLLLLLL!!!

Fucccck Gareth Bale, we have Theo "Son of Zeus" Walcott. 

Theo has been watching Henry and it showed in that magnificent goal
1-0 to the Arsenal

Omo make dem watch this William guy o. Kai fabianski doing welll o.

Willian is taking Eboue to the cleaners regularly. . . .it's shocking.

Djourou has been our best defender so far.

And Eboue's foolishness cost us now. 

Free header in the box? Ridiculous defending from Arsenal again. . . .we are simply not defending well at all.

Djourou needs to come off and we need to regain control of this game. A bit of pressure and now they levelled against us.

ElRazur:

Djourou needs to come off and we need to regain control of this game. A bit of pressure and now they levelled against us.

I disagree - Djourou has been the most effective defender so far with his tackles and interceptions. Squillaci has been invisible and Eboue is playing very badly at the moment.

Take off Eboue for Sagna and get Eastmond to stop roaming and just position himself in front of the back four.

Eboueeeeeeeeee! Fabianski's been fantastic so far

A cheap goal 4d gunnas 2conceed

Admittedly, I missed a few minutes. However, from what I have seen so far all I have heard is "Juru gave the ball away".

I think we need to go on half time and regroup. Something is clearly wrong somewhere and it appears to be in the back four and mid-field area.

Eboue needs to get his positioning properly so that he can at least cut off the player tormenting him or force him wide.

We not having the ball at all

I beg Make them commot eboue we are really missing song no body to boss the midfield around

Clichy screws up and Eduardo scores.  


failing to track the runner again by Eastmond, but purely Clichy's fault for dallying on the ball. Why must he always make catastrophic mistakes with alarming regularity?

Clichy is just a BIG FOOL

Clichy is just to dumb playing for Arsenal That baboon is error prone . . .

Bad by clichy. So fund of that. Sch boy error.

It seems the players still think Eduardo is an Arsenal player the way they pass the ball to him and leave him unmarked in the box

HNIC:

Clichy is just a BIG FOOL

Please. Give him a break.   .   .  Like you never make mistakes abi?


@All

I think we will regroud and redress the tactics. I expect to see a better team that is well coordinated and going on to win or draw this game. I just hope Shaktar do not drop back to defend.

Why did Eduardo not jubilatr when he scored?
AW needs to make some changes in that team, our midfield is noffin to write home about.
Bendtner's positioning is very poor and it's not making us sharp upfront

@ El Razur

Clichy is amazingly error prone - he makes simple things look difficult. Why not clear that ball into row z in the 45th minute?  

He was trying to be too clever and it cost him.  

We need to get ourselves sorted out. . . .the midfield is way too porous.

Is this some kind of joke Arsene should put Lansbury in MF FFS

WE SHOULDN'T LOSE TO THIS TEAM! Their Silly Coach will laugh all the way to Next Year!! Come on guys Play the way we know how. If we win this game, we qualify for the next round. We don't Then we make Nov- Dec difficult

GOONER 89

boladot:

Why did Eduardo not jubilatr when he scored?
AW needs to make some changes in that team, our midfield is noffin to write home about.
Bendtner's positioning is very poor and it's not making us sharp upfront

Sign of respect to us.

He mentioned that he will not celebrate if he scores against us in the last game too.


It is a football thing to do, unless off course you are Adebayor - You ran the whole fuckkking pitch.



@Debo

Yeah I agree he can be. I just find it odd that fan turn their backs the moment we aint playing so well. (Appears to be a very common Arsenal fan trait)

To be honest, Clichy is regarded as one of the very good players for his position in the EPL. He may be error prone but he plays for us and a bit of support will be better in my opinion.


As per second half, I think Arsene is right now yelling in the dressing room and tell them what to do and what not to do. I expect to see a better side.

PS
Looked like he lost his footing/balance and hence lost the ball in the process.

Why should we give Clichy a break I personally blame him for us losing the league in 2008 at the Brummies. Win that game and we could have gone on to win the league. His error cost us then and it keeps costing us At least we can use Age to defend Gibbs for any error (a la the Slip to let the Chink score against us in the UCL semis against The Scum)

We just need to get our acts together in MF

GOONER 89

The full backs are the main concern for me but we cant take them both off. We also need Nasri and Rosicky to pull strings in the midfield.
Unfortunately, can't see anyone on the bench who can make a change