The Taming of the Shrew: Shrewsbury (H)

With the darkness of Ewood Park behind us, our Carling Cup campaign kicks off tonight for the first time since the day that we've never really recovered from.

A Carling Cup Final against Birmingham back in February was without a doubt the most glaring of opportunities to end our barren run of six years without a trophy. Yet a Koscielyn and Szcescny horror show 2 minutes from time saw us consequently lose all momentum in our title charge and tumble out of the FA Cup and Champions League in the resulting weeks.

Tonight sees Shrewsbury as visitors to North London and Wenger has confirmed that we will see a few of the squad players and younger lads. “We have a big squad now and we want to make use of that,” he told Arsenal.com.

“I will give a chance for young players to shine and find the right mixture in this competition between keeping our faith in young players and, of course, winning the games. That means having the right balance between experience and youth. I had my team in my head before the Blackburn game and it will remain exactly the same. We will have Frimpong, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ryo, and maybe one or two more. There is an also opportunity to see Park for the first time. Chamakh will also feature. You will also see Jenkinson start in his position."

Likely Line-Up: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Djourou, Miquel, Gibbs, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Frimpong, Coquelin, Ryo, Chamakh, Park