Champions League: Wenger set to switch strikers

Arsene Wenger is ready to continue with his ruthless striker-rotation policy at Highbury tonight despite the risk of it turning into a fatal game of Russian roulette for Arsenal in the Champions League.

A revenge win over the Spartak Moscow side which inflicted the Gunners’ biggest-ever defeat in Europe, a 4-1 hammering in November, would mean almost certain qualification for the last eight.