Arsenal’s squad for tomorrow night’s encounter with Olympiacos could have a youthful look about it. Arsene Wenger has decided to rest ‘senior’ players like Jack Wilshere, Theo Walcott, Olivier Giroud, Mikel Arteta, Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla ahead of this weekend’s important league game with West Brom.

The manager said, “Some players needed a rest as they’re on the fringe of injury. Some are injured, like Podolski, Walcott. I needed to rest Wilshere 100%.”

As those senior players sat out training, youngsters like Martin Angha, Elton Monterio, Zak Ansah, Jernade Meade, Chuba Akpom and Sead Hajrovic all took part and could be part of the squad.

Fringe players like Andrei Arshavin and Marouane Chamakh are both likely to start while with injuries to Johan Djourou, Laurent Koscielny and Ignasi Miquel, Sebastian Squillaci could start his first Arsenal game since Jan 9th (Arsenal’s 1-0 win over Leeds in the FA Cup).

Full squad

Arsenal squad:

1 Wojciech Szczesny

5 Thomas Vermaelen

7 Tomas Rosicky

15 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

16 Aaron Ramsey

18 Sebastien Squillaci

22 Francis Coquelin

23 Andrey Arshavin

25 Carl Jenkinson

27 Gervinho

29 Marouane Chamakh

38 Martin Angha

39 Zak Ansah

48 Sead Hajrovic

53 Jernade Meade

55 Elton Monteiro

60 James Shea

67 Chuba Akpom