Tomiyasu return, Martinelli up top - 4 changes Mikel Arteta could make to Arsenal XI vs Chelsea

It's been a bad fortnight for Arsenal. In the space of three games they have gone from favourites to qualify for next season's Champions League to having their top four ambitions appear nothing more than a pipe dream.

To make matters worse they have lost both Thomas Partey and Kieran Tierney most likely until the end of the campaign due to respective thigh and knee injuries. Right now they could do with a nice and easy game just to help build up confidence again. The Premier League fixture gods have had other ideas though.

The Gunners travel to Chelsea on Wednesday to kick off a run of fixtures that sees them play four of the top seven in the space of five matches. After being knocked out of the Champions League by Real Madrid at the quarter-final stage, Thomas Tuchel's side have the opportunity to focus all their attentions on this London derby, with their FA Cup final against Liverpool not coming up for another month.

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Arsenal's biggest problem right now is that they are struggling to score goals. From their last 73 shots, the Gunners have found the back of the net just twice. Speaking after Saturday's defeat to Southampton, Mikel Arteta admitted that his options to change things are limited.

"It’s what we have," the Spaniard told . "The players that we have haven’t done it in this league. When you have world class players who have done it in the league for ten years, I would probably say that. I am the first one to defend them, to support them, you see how they try. The only way to do it is to insist and what happened today might happen the next day or the next month."

In fact, with Pablo Mari, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang,