Coquelin will be joined on the sideline by Mikel Arteta, who also left Arsenal’s 2-1 defeat to West Bromwich Albion early with an injury of his own.
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If Bayern Munich, as expected, defeat Olympiakos at the Allianz Arena and Arsenal record a win over Zagreb, the final spot in the knockout stages will be decided on 9 December when the Gunners travel to Greece to face Olympiakos.
Wenger has been outspoken on the topic of doping in recent weeks, and hinted his views may have prompted a visit from UEFA drug inspectors last week.
Wenger said: “I’m always cautious”. It’s a surprising rule. UEFA applies the rule that is planned, but I personally don’t agree with the rule, because you can not say “okay, they are the doped players and the result stands” because it means you basically accept doping. “I hope he gets support of the president”.
“But overall I felt it dropped a huge blow when we scored and we just had to make sure they didn’t come back with a easy goal and that is where we were disappointed today”. “We had 10 people on Friday to control us”.
UEFA spokesman Pedro Pinto said in a statement released to Press Association Sport: “UEFA’s anti-doping regulations regarding the consequences for teams for doping offences are strictly in accordance with article 11 of the WADA code that states that “where more than one team member in a team sport has been notified of a possible anti-doping rule violation, the team shall be subject to target testing for the event”. We cannot change it and the only thing we can do is bounce back on Tuesday night’. “It will be at least two months but I don’t want to speculate more than that”.
Midfield: The big news is that Francis Coquelin is out for the foreseeable future after damaging knee ligaments at the weekend so we have a real problem in midfield.
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Arsenal midfielder Francis Coquelin has been ruled out for two months with a knee injury but Aaron Ramsey could return, manager Arsene Wenger said ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League match against Dinamo Zagreb.
