Arsenal go into this one managing key attacking absences. Kai Havertz is expected to miss at least four matches with a muscular injury, and Mikel Merino is out long-term after foot surgery.

That shifts Arsenal’s chance-creation burden more heavily onto Ødegaard/Eze-type connectors and their wide threats, rather than the Gyökeres–Havertz pairing Sky highlighted as productive.

The biggest confirmed change is up front, Kai Havertz is set to miss at least four matches (muscular injury), so Arsenal’s forward/box presence profile changes and makes a different striker/false-9 solution more likely.​
Arsenal also have midfield depth impacted because Mikel Merino is out long-term after foot surgery, increasing the load on their first-choice midfielders in a midweek away game.​

Wolves: Pereira has leaned toward a 3-4-2-1/3-4-3 structure, so expect three centre-backs, wing-backs, and two narrow attackers behind a striker rather than a flat back four.