lots or reports today that he is injured with a dicky thigh and robinho is also out with a ham string injury
now this is why you have players like De Jong and Petrov on the bench - even without these 2 key players we've still got enough strength in depth to face arsenal with reasonable confidence. I imagine we'll probably see De Jong and Barry on defensive midfield duties and Ireland pushing up to his more natural position to feed Bellemy, Manu and SWP - which I would like to see tried out anyway tbh