Advantage Blues in crunch clash as Aguero starts and Sanchez misses out

A defeat for Wenger’s side will see them lose the second spot to City, with Leicester City leading the Premier League table with 38 points.

“It was true for a while because we were a young team and a young team can be up and down”. While these players are all very talented in their own way they have struggled to fill the holes left by City’s talismans which have caused their club to suffer this season. “We know that”, Ozil told the Times newspaper.

With Leicester’s success in mind it makes victory in this game even more imperative for both teams. It’s not just started now. We want to win because it’s at our home and we want to be successful.

A lucrative new domestic broadcast deal, a 70 percent increase on the existing one, comes into effect next season and the richest clubs, with their incredible financial might, will no longer be able to cherry-pick the best players, Wenger said.

In total, Giroud has 14 goals this season, including a hat trick against Olympiakos in the Champions League.

“That’s what I call character and that’s what we have to show in the league”.

That’s a meaningful position, because in the 23 seasons since England’s former First Division reorganized into the Premier League, the team that occupies first place on Christmas has gone on to win the league 11 times – and has never finished lower than third.

“Barcelona are the hardest team in the world to play against”.

These two teams, for me, are the best in the division and this is a golden opportunity for them to lay down a marker.

“Afterwards I continued to work hard at training and above all I was always decisive when I came on”.

Mesut Ozil is seen as the Gunners’ key man. He’s registered 13 league assists already this term, making him statistically the most creative player in the country.

They lost to the Catalan giants in the 2006 final before going out 6-3 and 4-3 on aggregate in the 2010 quarter-finals and 2011 last-16 stage respectively. Things seem to have been ramped up, however, as an announcement over Guardiola’s future at Bayern Munich has drawn nearer.

“It will be an exciting game, with the possibility of lots of goals, but it’s not like we are afraid”, he added.