The Ukraine international was forced to miss last weekend's 2-1 Premier League defeat to Fulham due to a calf injury, which he underwent a scan on earlier this week.
Arsenal have not disclosed the severity of Zinchenko's problem, but he appears to he avoided a serious issue, as Arteta confirmed at his pre-game press conference that he may be in with a chance of taking on the Reds.
«He is progressing well. We have another training session tomorrow and we will evaluate whether he is available or not to play and start the game. As for the rest, there is no actual news,» Arteta told reporters.
While Zinchenko might win his battle to be fit for the contest, Arsenal remain without Jurrien Timber, Fabio Vieira and Thomas Partey, the latter of whom was not called up to the Ghana squad for the Africa Cup of Nations due to his thigh injury.
Arsenal were hitherto hopeful that Partey would have been fit to make his comeback in Sunday's game, but his injury has proven more serious than first feared, and Arteta conceded that the 30-year-old is still some weeks away from returning to team training.
Speaking about Partey's omission from Ghana's AFCON squad, Arteta added: «It was about common sense. He has a long-term injury and he really wanted to push his rehab.
»He really wanted to be with the national team but he is still far from training with the team and it didn't make a lot of sense for him to be involved. Hopefully it's weeks. How many weeks it will be will depend a little bit on how long the next step of training with the team will take him, but he's progressing well."
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