Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Capital One Cup: Reading vs Arsenal. 18-man Squad Released.

In Arsenal's squad to face Reading tonight in the Capital One Cup, Arsene Wenger has picked both experienced an youth players. As we all know, Wenger takes the Capital One and FA Cups as avenues to give the youths a chance to feature for the first team.

Olivier Giroud, Laurent Koscielny, Theo Walcott, Carl Jenkinson, Johan Djourou and Andrey Arshavin are in the squad. Emmanuel Frimpong would be looking to continue his recovery as he might also be considered for a start.

Eisfield, Gnabry, Hector and Miquel who had all done extremely well with the Reserves are also travelling.

Below is the full list of selected players. They are 18 in number
6 Laurent Koscielny

12 Olivier Giroud

14 Theo Walcott

18 Sebastien Squillaci

20 Johan Djourou

22 Francis Coquelin

23 Andrey Arshavin

25 Carl Jenkinson

26 Emmanuel Frimpong

29 Marouane Chamakh

36 Damian Martinez (GK)

40 Hector Bellerin

46 Thomas Eisfeld

47 Serge Gnabry

53 Jernade Meade

54 Ignasi Miquel

60 James Shea (GK)

64 Nico Yennaris