Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal: Gunners aim to break the curse of the City Ground

Welcome to Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal

Arsenal travel to the City Ground looking to put some pressure on leaders Liverpool with victory, while Nottingham Forest are keen to move themselves out of the bottom three.

The hosts are still without Ola Aina, Cheikhou Kouyate, Willy Boly, Serge Aurier, Ibrahim Sangare and Moussa Niakhate as they are all involved in the knockout stages of the Africa Cup of Nations.

Nuno Tavares cannot face his parent club tonight, adding to the headache as Felipe, Taiwo Awoniyi, Anthony Elanga and Divock Origi are all major doubts having missed the recent FA Cup tie.

Apart from Origi, everyone else has returned to first-team training, while Morgan Gibbs-White is in line for a recall after appearing as a substitute against Bristol City after recovering from injury.

The Gunners are without Mohamed Elneny and Takehiro Tomiyasu, who remain at AFCON and the Asian Cup respectively.

Jurrien Timber and Fabio Viera remain out injured and will not return soon.

Declan Rice left the pitch in their recent match against Crystal Palace and despite Mikel Arteta dismissing it as 'fatigue', he did not feature in their latest training photos in preparation for tonight's match.

Gabriel was also missing from the London Colney fields after an ankle injury against The Eagles, while Thomas Partey is still not fit enough after being ruled out of the AFCON tournament by Ghana.