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Arsenal stars drop team news hints for Inter amid new Declan Rice worry and Martin Odegaard hope

by · football.london

A number of Arsenal players have posted on social media ahead of the Champions League tie with Inter Milan on Wednesday night.

Mikel Arteta's side will take on the Serie A giants for the first time since 2003. Arsenal emerged 5-1 winners in the second leg tie after losing the first 3-0.

Despite Arsenal's mixed start to the season, they are yet to lose in the competition after two wins and one draw. The side defeated Shakhtar Donetsk thanks to an own goal by goalkeeper Dmytro Riznyk.

Interm meanwhile, sit eighth, one place above Arsenal but are level on points. Ahead of the match, Jorginho, Bukayo Saka, Thomas Partey and Gabriel Jesus have all posted on their Instagram stories.

Jorginho shared a pre-match graphic video while Saka and Jesus shared a picture of them travelling to Milan. Partey, on the other hand, posted a training picture.

This often suggests that they will be involved in some capacity – whether that's starting or simply named in the matchday squad. With that said, Jorginho is yet to start a Champions League game this season after coming on as a late substitute against Atalanta and Shakhtar.

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Saka meanwhile, started in the first two games against Atalanta and Paris Saint-Germain but missed the win over Shakhtar due to injury. He has vowed that Arsenal will get back to the levels fans are used to after failing to win their last three league games.

He said: "If you look at our squad, the quality we have, the players we have and at the same time we're only in November so I don't think I've lost any belief, I don't think anyone will change it if I have to. Obviously there's a lot of noise around the club and we lost two games and drew another one.

"But at the same time it's important to stay calm and doing all of these things can at the same time create more calm. We don't want to create any panic and chaos and I don't think we need that right now." "So I'm just doing my best to help the team in every way I can and if I need to do that I'll do that for sure."

Elsewhere, Declan Rice, Riccardo Calafiori, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Kieran Tierney are expected to miss out through injury while there is a possibility that Martin Odegaard returns from the sidelines.

Speaking ahead of the clash, Arteta has predicted a tough game, saying: "I think they have a really clear idea and identity and that's for me the biggest strength of Inter and that's full credit to their manager. He has some very specific ideas, especially in ball possession, the way he moves the position of certain players, not all the players but certain players, to occupy different spaces.

"It makes it tricky and unpredictable. But we face, to be fair, in the Premier League as well a lot of tactical issues that we have to resolve and hopefully tomorrow we're going to be able to do that as well."


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