Arsène Wenger will make a handful of changes for tomorrow night's Champions League game against FC Thun and give key players time to shrug off minor knocks.

Gilberto, Jens Lehmann and Kolo Toure all started at Wigan on Saturday but have not travelled. Wenger explained why before his squad left for Switzerland this afternoon.

"The players who are out have knocks," he said. "Gilberto has an ankle problem and Kolo Toure played twice with the Ivory Coast before the Wigan game.

"Jens Lehmann had a little back problem before Wigan but he could have played [against Thun]."

In their absence, Wenger will recall Jose Antonio Reyes, who watched from the bench at the JJB Stadium. The Arsenal manager also suggested that some of the Club's young prospects will get a chance to shine.

"Mathieu Flamini may play and also maybe Alexandre Song. Emmanuel Eboue may also get a start. Jose Antonio Reyes will play and start."

Ashley Cole, Gael Clichy and Alexander Hleb are still out injured, while Dennis Bergkamp has not made the trip to Switzerland.


Arsenal squad:

7. Robert PIRES
8. Freddie LJUNGBERG
9. Jose Antonio REYES
11. Robin VAN PERSIE
12. LAUREN
14. Thierry HENRY
15. Francesc FABREGAS
16. Mathieu FLAMINI
17. Alexandre SONG
18. Pascal CYGAN
20. Philippe SENDEROS
21. Mart POOM (GK)
23. Sol CAMPBELL
24. Manuel ALMUNIA (GK)
27. Emmanuel EBOUE
33. Nicklas BENDTNER
36. Johan DJOUROU
41. Arturo LUPOLI

HOPP HOPP HOPPP THUN!!!!

GOGOGOGO...

well I cant see thun making it, their losing lots of games in the swiss league

Easy win for Arsenal

yeh despite Arsenal resting a few players, still should have enough quality for Thun, but we shall see as they did make it tough for us at Highbury. My lineup....

Almunia

Eboue
Campbell
Senderos
Lauren

Ljungberg
Flamini
Song
Pires

Reyes
Van Persie

Arsenal to win this 2-0, goals from Van Persie and Ljungberg. Good chance for the likes to Song and Eboue to impress, and Lupoli if he comes on. The game doesnt meanto much but a win always helps

I Would love to see this line up

---------------------------Almunia-----------------------------
Lauren------Senderos---------------Campbell--------Eboue
-----------------------Song----------Fabregas--------------
Ljungberg-----------------------------------------------Reyes
---------------------Lupoli------------van Persie-------------

This game does mean a lot. Although we are qualified, if we finish on top of the group by winning this match then we'll be seeded with easier teams to play in the next round.

Wenger wants to give some players a chance but also wants to make sure we finish first. I think it'll go like this;

-----------------------------Alumnia------------------------------

Lauren-----------Senderos-----------Cambell------------Eboue

Ljunberg------------Flamini-----------Song---------------Reyes

-------------------------RVP---------Henry----------------------

Subs;

Lupoli (RVP)
Pires (Reyes)

"I want to see one or two players but I don't want to play a Carling Cup side," he said. "I would like to see Song and, if I can, Emmanuel Eboué, but all the others will be first-team players. We want to do the job well and finish top of the group." - Wenger

I want to c QOA
play for at least 30 mins

2-0, Henry and Persie!

me to he will go pass the swis with ease

I'm pretty sure Henry is playing because he is going for record appearances in Europe for Arsenal, done by Seaman.

Should be a good game and a great indicator to where our youngsters are at right now. Can't wait to see Song in action if he hopefully gets more than 2 mins.

I cant believe those idiots moved the football to ITV4, i mean does anyone even have that channel?

There's an ITV4

That's the channel the game is on, i can only find it on the audio section of freeview - which has a big blue banner across the screen.

Unfortunately he isn't in the squad

Confrimed team 4 tonights game

Almunia

Eboue
Senderos
Campbell
Cygan

Ljunberg
Song
Flamini
Reyes

V.Persie
Henry ©

Thats Quincy right??? He is not in the squad that ^^^ posted
I hope he leaves Arsenal and becomes so famous elsewhere. Wenger has absolutely no faith in him!

I will be capping the game so watch out for the minutes of skills etc

NVM - i found an awesome link for those who want to watch it. Great quality!

Goto StarSports after downloading and installing ppStream (not PPLive).

hate to say it but it seems we will have to create a lot of our chances through the wide men tonight with Flamini and Song in the middle. But we will see how it goes. Hopefully we can get at least a point to secure top spot

lol Henry tried to score from halfway via kickoff

I think he just wanted to clear it and go up to pressure them.

I have ITV4 I don't know how though.

The kick off was terrible I think.

Agh...too much playing around in the box.

Henry should have just shot it.

PPstream is confusing me...I just downloaded it, what do I do now?


what do I do when I get to that screen???

Open the program....then look for StarSports on the left of the player.

Just keep clicking next in the installation even though its in chinese and accept it.

RVP is getting caught offside way too many times now!

Nugmeg and great run by Eboue.

oo finally got it working thanks so much for your help Swift!

NP.
It's still going great for me.

As for the game, we never truly created any chances so far and i think they had more possession.

WHAT A PASS.

PENALTY AND RED CARD vs. Thun for the foul vs. RVP.

NVP - just a freekick! Damn him. It could have been a goal. Thank god he got a red.

the guy CLEARLY denied van Persie of a scoring opportunity

LMAO....Did you see Eboue's fake and run? Too bad he lost the ball.

Half - time. Only created one clear chance where RVP was fouled.

Other than that, nothing exciting. The midfield is not creating any chances. Even though Flamini and Song are doing a decent job, they're never passing forward to create chances for RVP and Henry. Only one who does that is when the defence kicks it up. Impressed with Eboue - i think Song still needs more time in the reserves but we'll see how it goes in thes second half.

Fabregas is available right?

yeppp great run by Eboue there

lol yeh, eboue is avery confident dribbler of the ball , also song had done well with some interceptions.
These officials need glasses though

Song has played pretty well. Made some excellent tackles. Only thing is he is a bit slow on the dribble after the first touch control.

Reyes has made some nice long switch passes, the first one to v.Persie was no way offside. Robbery.

Henry has been ok, nothing special.

...and Cygan is a wanker. I can't stand that guy.

eh so far it's ok...nothing spectacular...cmon Wenger work your magic and show us some real nice football in second half!

the first half wasn't too impressive but its Arsenal, a very good team, so i am sure they will win it though even a draw would be enough for them.
respect to Thun for another good half vs Arsenal

Just get the feeling it's only a matter of time before the first goes in and then maybe they'll a couple more after that.
Van Persie looks very liekly to get it.

yea scoring the first goal is always the toughest for us, but after we break through that, things come more easily and we always look more likely to score again. I'm putting my money on van Persie being the first to score.

Damn - Eboue is injured. He's limping!

PLEASE don't tell me he's gonna be out.

NVM

Got lucky...and commentator reminded me. They are on 10 men. We should be taking advantage of this.

not enough power on bike kick by Henry. Good positioning though

ooo offside goal by them!

Damn how cold is it in Switzerland right now?! The fans look freaking MISERABLE!

Offside goal by Thun. We're not looking good right now.

Great defending by Senderos.

Not looking good right now at all...we're getting owned in midfield.

We need to bring our regulars in midfield. Too bad Gilberto isn't here.

At least Fabregas could come on.

Fabregas on > Song off

unlucky Alex Song - you played well. if the ref blew the whistle when u first got fouled you wouldnt be injured.
this game is so starting to get me mad because of the constant offsides.

with Fabregas in there I expect midfield to run a whole lot more smoothly now. Cmon Gunners you're 1 man up!

Bad mistake by Eboue.

what the hell are we doing??? damn we look awful right now!

nice defending by Senderos shielding the ball for a goal kick. He's having a great game back home in Switzerland

That was not an offside. It could have been a goal.

Just shows you how shit Alumnia truly is.

CYGAN out! LAUREN in! FINALLY!

Henry should have gotten that one in! This is getting frustrating.

hmm not cool, Thun should be 1-0 up.

At last baldie goes off!!! Ralph on for him

ooo sooo close! And who says van Persie has no vision?! Great pass by him, shame Henry missed by a whisker though

Not cool of the Thun fans to throw snowballs at Henry...not cool at all!

Henry out Pires in.

Sucks.

Henry will leave us so bad.