There’s good news and bad on the injury front this morning as Laurent Koscielny has returned to first team training.

The Frenchman has been sidelined since before the last international break with a chronic Achilles problem, but looks to have made some steps towards a comeback. Whether he’s fit enough to play against Dortmund tomorrow night remains to be seen, but it is encouraging.

However, there was no Jack Wilshere after his ankle injury picked up against United and we await further news of how long he’ll be missing for.

Nor was there any sign of Danny Welbeck who looked to have tweaked the hamstring problem he had while away with England, or Theo Walcott whose ‘little groin’ ruled him out of the United game at the weekend.

Olivier Giroud is ruled out as he’s ineligible until the knock-out stages, so there may well be a start for Lukas Podolski if Welbeck is ruled out.

Arsene Wenger is due to meet the press shortly so we’ll have further updates then.