Vieira doubful for Gunners' decisive clash with Valencia

ARSENAL’S fight to get skipper Patrick Vieira fit for tomorrow night’s decisive Champions League clash with Valencia in Spain is becoming more desperate after manager Arsene Wenger admitted David Seaman and Sol Campbell have little chance of playing.

Defender Martin Keown is already ruled out and Vieira’s participation is in doubt with Wenger, who said on Friday that his fellow Frenchman would certainly face Valencia, now putting the midfield star’s chances at only “50-50” after he missed the 2-0 defeat at Blackburn on Saturday with a swollen knee.

Seaman, 39, and centre-back Campbell both also missed the game at Ewood Park, which produced Arsenal’s first defeat in any competition since Manchester United beat them 2-0 at Old Trafford on December 7.