Arsenal will be without left-back Kieran Tierney for Thursday's Europa League clash against Sporting CP.
Tierney, who has been usurped by Oleksandr Zinchenko in Mikel Arteta's preferred starting XI this season, left the club's London Colney training ground about 45 minutes before training began, with some fans fearing he had suffered an injury. However, football.london understands that the Scottish international is merely unwell.
If Arteta wants to rest Zinchenko for the trip to Portugal, the Spaniard may opt to play the ambipedal Takehiro Tomiyasu at left-back, with Ben White then deployed at right-back. Tomiyasu has been utilised on the left flank four times this term, including back in October 2022 against Liverpool, with the Japanese international keeping the prolific Mohamed Salah extremely quiet as the Gunners clinched a 3-2 victory over Jurgen Klopp and co.
