Arsene Wenger admits he is facing an injury crisis as Arsenal go into three games which could decide their season.
Wenger could be without FIVE first teamers as they face Chelsea on Wednesday night, Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup on Sunday and then play Chelsea again in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday week.
Sead Kolasinac is out for two weeks with an ankle injury, Laurent Koscielny is a doubt with an Achilles issue and Mesut Ozil will have a late fitness test.
Nacho Monreal, Olivier Giroud and Aaron Ramsey are all definitely out as the problems mount for Wenger.
Gunners boss Wenger said: “At the moment our injury list is quite long, because we lost Kolasinac in the game and Koscielny. We had already Monreal, Giroud, Ramsey, Ozil [out].
“Who will be available tomorrow? The two who have a little chance are Ozil, who might have a test this morning - but he hasn’t been out at all since Crystal Palace, so I don’t know. [With] Koscielny, yesterday the medical staff were pessimistic about him.
“Kolasinac is out completely for at least two weeks. Koscielny is 30 per cent available, 70 per cent not.
“Basically we dedicate our time to recovery, to work a little bit today to prepare for tomorrow’s game. It’s basically 80 per cent recovery and 20 per cent training.
“We have a squad that is equipped to deal with that, as we have shown in the Europa League, in the League Cup. We have a big squad but we cannot lose any more players now, because we are a bit short.”
Wenger admits they cannot afford to lose more points in the battle for top four and admits they are now under “big pressure.”
Wenger said: “The gap is not big at the moment. We know that our home form will be absolutely vital and we just come home from West From frustrated because we lost two points, which was really frustrating. We know it puts us under even more pressure to deliver a big result tomorrow.
“We’ve played Chelsea many times and the results were always tight, apart from at home last year, we beat them 3-0.
“We’ve played them many times and they were always big battles. Chelsea are coming back into good form. They’ve been consistent recently so it’s a good and a big challenge for us tomorrow.”