Fixture: Arsenal vs Chelsea
Competition: FA Community Shield
Kick-off: 15:00 (UK time)

Arsenal have announced their starting eleven and substitutes for this afternoon's traditional English season curtain-raiser, the Community Shield at Wembley.

For the clash, Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has gone with a central defensive partnership of Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny, while Hector Bellerin and Nacho Monreal take up the full-back positions. Francis Coquelin will aim to shield the defence as Santi Cazorla and Mesut Ozil aim to create.




Theo Walcott leads Arsenal's attack against Chelsea, with Olivier Giroud relegated to a place on the bench. Also amongst the substitutes is youngster Alex Iwobi, while Mikel Arteta offers an experienced head.

Arsenal head into the match high on confidence due to a successful pre-season campaign. Wenger's side won the Barclays Asia Trophy tournament in Singapore, while they then followed that up by picking up the Emirates Cup in familiar surroundings.

 


Arsenal Team vs Chelsea

Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Ramsey, Walcott

Substitutes: Martinez, Debuchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Arteta, Iwobi, Giroud