Arsenal will be looking to continue their outstanding unbeaten record to 23 games when they travel to Southampton on Sunday.A 1-0 win over Qarabag in the Europa League on Thursday night saw the Gunners make it 22 games without defeat but this weekend’s game will be a much more testing contest.
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They come up against Saints in what is new manager RalphRalph Hasenhuttl’s first home game in charge.Unai Emery’s men will also know that a victory is essential to stay in touch with Tottenham and Chelsea in third and fourth respectively.Arsenal’s fixture is made more difficult by the fact that Emery has a number of defenders who aren’t at his disposal.Laurent Koscielny is the only recognised centre-back available but has only just returned from a long-term Achilles problem.Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Shkodran Mustafi are suspended while Rob Holding (knee) and Konstantinos Mavropanos (groin) are injured, with striker Danny Welbeck (ankle) and midfielder Emile Smith Rowe (hip) also sidelined.So who will make the Gunners’ starting line-up? Below you can see talkSPORT.com’s predicted Arsenal XI.
1Predicted Arsenal team: Leno; Bellerin, Koscielny, Monreal, Kolasinac; Torreira, Xhaka; Mkhitaryan, Ramsey, Iwobi; Aubameyang 
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