It probably speaks to the importance of this game that neither Antonio Conte nor Mikel Arteta was willing to give anything away when it came to their players' availability ahead of Saturday's North London Derby.
The Italian got the pre-match Cold War underway by refusing to engage in any detail with regards to team news for fear of "giving an advantage to Arsenal." Never one to be usurped when it comes to press conference vaguery Arteta responded with an equally non-committal "the boys look in good condition," during his own media duties ahead of the game.
How much of an advantage this bizarre dance actually gives the respective teams ahead of this game is impossible to know, but what it does do is make the starting line ups excruciatingly tricky to predict.
