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Arsenal predicted starting XI v Napoli

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It’s advantage Arsenal as they prepare for the second-leg of their Europa League quarter-final in Italy on Thursday night. 

They have a 2-0 lead from the first leg and an away goal would see Napoli needing to score four.

Arsenal have the firepower too and with Alexandre Lacazette rested for the game against Watford on Monday, he will be raring to go.

We expect Unai Emery to start Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as well, with Aaron Ramsey keeping Mesut Ozil onto the bench.

Granit Xhaka and Lucas Torreira can protect the five-man defence, and we expect to see Sead Kolasinac and Ainsley Maitland-Niles on the flanks, with Nacho Monreal, Laurent Koscielny and Sokratis in the middle.

Petr Cech is the Europa goalie and he should get the nod ahead of Bernd Leno on Thursday.

It means five changes from the side that beat Watford, with Alex Iwobi, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Konastantinos Mavropanos Leno and £90k/wk defender Shkodran Mustafi dropping out.

This is the starting XI we expect Emery to put out against Napoli:

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