Haaland and De Bruyne drop to the bench for City as Saka misses out for Arsenal
TALISMAN Bukayo Saka is out of Arsenal's Premier League clash Wednesday night at home to Luton, with manager Mikel Arteta ringing the changes for the crucial derby clash.
Saka is not even on the bench after limping off at Manchester City last Sunday. There are five changes to the starting line up from that top of the table clash with Thomas Partey makes his first Premier League start since August while Emile Smith Rowe, Leandro Trossard, Reiss Nelson and Oleksandr Zinchenko start. Jakub Kiwior, Jorginho, Declan Rice and Gabriel Jesus drop to the bench for this one.
This is Luton's second visit to north London in the space of a few days after losing 2-1 at Tottenham last Saturday.
Hatters boss Rob Edwards' selection plans have been decimated by injuries but Alfie Doughty, who was a doubt, has recovered from a knock to start. But defender Reece Burke is not involved and Tahith Chong is only on the bench.
Jordan Clark and Daiki Hashioka both return to the starting XI while midfielder Fred Onyedinma makes his first Premier League. Ireland's Chiedozie Ogbene misses out while 16-year-old centre-half and schoolboy Christian Chigozie is on the bench for the visitors.
Elsewhere, Evan Ferguson misses Brighton's trip to Brentford, who have Republic of Ireland international Nathan Collins starting at centre-back, with a minor knock and his place on the substitute's bench has been filled by Cork native Mark O'Mahony.
The former Cork City striker could be in line to make his Premier League debut.
And in the late kick-off at 8:15pm, Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne have been named amongst the subs for Manchester City's home clash with Aston Villa while John Stones also makes the bench having recovered from injury.
Aston Villa will
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