Arsenal have confirmed that Declan Rice misses out for Arsenal against Liverpool through injury.
Rice played the full 90 minutes for the Gunners against Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League semi-final second leg on Wednesday. However, the midfielder is not in the matchday squad at Anfield.
It is the first time the midfielder has missed a match this year. Rice was last unavailable for a game on 18 December, when a knock kept Rice out of the League Cup quarter-final against Crystal Palace at the Emirates Stadium.
His enforced absence ends a streak of 21 consecutive starts for club and country stretching back to late January. The last match Rice did not start was the final Champions League league phase game versus Girona, in which he came on as an 82nd-minute substitute.
However, during that run, Rice has been replaced during the second half nine times, completing the entire match in the other 12.
Leandro Trossard has replaced the midfielder for manager Mikel Arteta on this occasion. Mikel Merino reverts to a midfield role, rather than leading the line, alongside Martin Odegaard and Thomas Partey. Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli will flank Trossard.
The only other change sees Ben White replace Jurrien Timber at right-back. The back four of William Saliba, Jakub Kiwior and Myles Lewis-Skelly remains, with David Raya in goal.
**Arsenal:** Raya, White, Saliba, Kiwior, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Merino, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Trossard.
**Subs:** Neto, Tierney, Timber, Zinchenko, Calafiori, Butler-Oyedeji, Henry-Francis, Nwaneri, Sterling.
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