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Arsenal v Leicester: Full team news and line-ups confirmed
EXPRESS SPORT brings you the confirmed teams for Arsenal v Leicester.
Arsene Wenger will be hoping for three points against Leicester
Arsenal hand debuts to Alexandre Lacazette and Sead Kolasinac but Alexis Sanchez remains out with an abdominal strain.
Laurent Koscielny is absent as he serves a ban, while Per Mertesacker is also out.
Leicester are without midfield duo Danny Drinkwater and Vicente Iborra thorugh injury.
And Robert Huth is also absent after undergoing ankle surgery and is replaced by summer signing Harry Maguire.
It’s time… for the first time this @premierleague season, here’s our team #AFCvLCFC pic.twitter.com/JRbPWYQKTo
— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) August 11, 2017
Tonight's starting XI: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan (c), Maguire, Fuchs, Mahrez, Ndidi, James, Albrighton, Okazaki, Vardy. #ArsLei pic.twitter.com/rAfAVkDNED
— Leicester City (@LCFC) August 11, 2017
Arsenal Team: Cech, Holding, Monreal, Kolasinac, Bellerin, Elneny, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Welbeck, Lacazette
Subs: Ospina, Mustafa, Coquelin, Ramsey, Iwobi, Walcott, Giroud
Leicester Team: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan (c), Maguire, Fuchs, Mahrez, Ndidi, James, Albrighton, Okazaki, Vardy
Subs: Homer, Chilewell, Amartey, King, Gray, Slimani, Iheanacho
Arsene Wenger said ahead of the clash: "The target is very difficult to set.
"You can interview seven or eight Premier League managers who will tell you they want to win the league and they are very ambitious, and rightly so.
"Let's just focus on us, on our quality and go into the games with the desire to win every game.
"How strong the other teams are is very difficult to predict as well because some have been very active in the transfer market. How will that transform in quality? It's very difficult to predict."