Vieira hoping to make derby date

Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira is battling to be fit for the north London derby with Tottenham at Highbury on November 8 after the Gunners admitted he has had another setback with his thigh injury.

Manager Arsene Wenger accepts he gambled by deciding to plunge in his fellow Frenchman as a substitute for the last half-hour of Arsenal’s Champions League visit to Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday night.