Kieran Tierney is set to feature for Arsenal for the first time in more than 16 months after Mikel Arteta revealed he expected to be without several key defenders for Wednesday night’s Champions League meeting with Monaco.
Thomas Partey, Jurrien Timber, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Magalhães did not train with the rest of the squad on Tuesday and Arteta said “some of them probably aren’t going to be fit” to face the French side, who have an identical record of 10 points from five fixtures.
Tierney, who returned to the squad last month after a hamstring injury sustained playing for Scotland at Euro 2024, is in line to play some part, having made his most recent appearance for the club at the Community Shield in August 2023 before going on loan last season to Real Sociedad.
