2) Another defensive reshuffle
With Laurent Koscielny having aggravated a back injury while on France duty, but Per Mertesacker fit again after illness, Arsenal face fielding a fourth different centre-back pairing in as many games.
Gabriel Paulista has come into the side and helped the Gunners to clean sheets in their last two outings, but this sort of reshuffling in defence is bound to eventually catch up with the Londoners, and Stoke have the attacking weapons to cause them problems.
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