Mikel Arteta speaks to Amazon. “We had an extra day off and good preparation… we have a really difficult game ahead of us… Bukayo Saka will be out for many, many weeks… it’s a good opportunity for the rest of the team to step up… who wants to take on more responsibility .”

Kieran McKenna speaks to Amazon Prime. “Ben Johnson is a versatile player… there will be periods where we defend as a back five… sometimes as a back four… it will be a tough evening but hopefully a good evening… the reaction (to the 4-0 defeat to Newcastle) has was really good at the training ground… the game got away from us… the first one in a long time… it’s a new game and a new challenge… we want to tackle it head on… we need to keep our culture… we need to adapt and be competitive… It’s been a big journey for our players… the last time we came up short, we can go again tonight… we analyzed Arsenal as best we could… we have to save a lot of set pieces.”

Arsenal make two changes to their starting XI after their 5-1 win at Palace. Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard are there; Thomas Partey falls to the bench while Bukayo Saka is paralyzed.

Ipswich make five changes after their 4-0 home defeat to Newcastle. Liam Delap, Kalvin Phillips, Ben Johnson, Luke Woolfenden and Jacob Greaves take the places of Harry Clarke, Wes Burns and Conor Chaplin, who are on the bench, and Cameron Burgess and captain Sam Morsy, who are completely absent.

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