Gaël Clichy starts at left back, replacing the suspended Ashley Cole. Pascal Cygan slots into centre back alongside Sol Campbell and Touré continues to deputise for Lauren at right back.
Aliádíère, despite a virtuoso performance against West Brom, does not even make the bench.
ARSENAL:
Jens Lehmann
Kolo Touré
Sol Campbell
Pascal Cygan
Gaël Clichy
Fredrik Ljungberg
Patrick Vieira
Gilberto
Robért Píres
Thierry Henry
Dennis Bergkamp
Subs:
Martin Keown
Ray Parlour
Edu
Kanu
Graham Stack
BOLTON:
Jussi Jaaskelainen
Simon Charlton
Kevin Nolan
Youri Djorkaeff
Per Frandsen
Jay-Jay Okocha
Ricardo Gardner
Kevin Davies
Nicky Hunt
Ivan Campo
Emerson Thome
Subs:
Kevin Poole
Anthony Barness
Stelios Giannakopoulos
Henrik Pedersen
Ibrahim Ba
** STAT ** If we avoid defeat today we will equal the 17 match undefeated start made in 1947/48. We are still seven games short of our club record 23 match start without defeat in 1990/91.