Performance at the Emirates could be a good pointer to Seasiders survival hopes.
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Arsenal will have captain Cesc Fabregas available after a chest infection, but Samir Nasri has been ruled out for a month after minor knee surgery.
Laurent Koscielny is suspended following his red card at Liverpool, so Alex Song might return at centre-back.
Blackpool could hand a debut to Israeli defender Dekel Keinan, who signed for the Premier League newcomers this week.
But goalkeeper Paul Rachubka is out for six weeks after suffering a knee injury in training.
Arsenal
Suspended: Koscielny (one match)
Doubtful: Denilson (abdominal)
Injured: Bendtner (groin), Frimpong & Nasri (knee), Ramsey (broken leg)
Blackpool
Injured: Almond (shoulder), Clarke, Rachubka & Southern (all knee) (BBC Sport)
Whilst Blackpool’s success last week at the DW Stadium was a great triumph for Ian Holloway’s men, a trip to the Emirates will prove infinitely more challenging and the Seasiders boss will be ecstatic if he can come away from the trip to north London with anything.
Arsenal have not lost to Blackpool since 1966 and you would have to look back even further, to 1958, to locate the time when the away team last won on their travels to Highbury. Arsene Wenger will not have been too pleased with his sides showing at Anfield, not least in the attacking third where they seemed strangely subdued and only collected a point from the game when Pepe Reina dropped an almighty clanger.
This should be Cesc Fabregas’s first match back for the Gunners and he will be looking to put in a performance that helps remove the nasty taste left by the continuous speculation linking him with a move back to Barcelona.
Highlights of the previous matches these two sides have played this season.
Liverpool 1-1 Arsenal
Wigan 0-4 Blackpool
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