Europa League: Wenger to rest seven players for Chelsea clash

Arsene Wenger is expected to make a host of changes to the team that
would face Bundesliga side Cologne in the Europa League opening match
at the Emirates on Thursday.

According to report, seven first team players who featured against
Bournemouth on Saturday did not take part in training on Wednesday.
They include Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey, who Wenger said were rested
completely because of the two matches they played during the
international break. Others are Hector Bellerin, Granit Xhaka, Danny
Welbeck, Alexandre Lacazette, Laurent Koscielny and Petr Cech.

Though Koscielny wouldn't have featured, because of a suspension from
last season's red card picked up against Bayern Munich.

Probable line up for the Cologne match could be:

David Ospina, Reiss Nelson, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Rob Holding, Per
Mertesacker, Calum Chambers, Mo' Elneny, Jack Wilshere, Alex Iwobi,
Theo Walcott, Oliver Giroud

Although, Alexis Sanchez and Mustafi could be involved. Especially the
Chilean who is not match fit.

Wenger has a decision to make on the players that would feature in the
wing back positions.

Chelsea followed a similar pattern of rotation on Tuesday night in
their 6-0 victory over Qarabag of Azerbajian.

Antonio Conte made five changes to his starting eleven with a view of
the Arsenal match in mind.

His Arsenal counterpart is expected to feature a new team altogether.