By The Telegraph (World News) | Created at 2024-09-25 17:40:40 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:21:35
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Hello and welcome to coverage from the Emirates as Arsenal host Bolton in the League Cup third round.
We expect Mikel Arteta to select a much-changed team from the XI that were held to a 2-2 draw by Manchester City on Sunday.
He said: “We want to win the game. We have to start with the first game. We have to understand what is the best team, the strongest team that we can put out to perform in the way that we need to to be better than Bolton and beat them.
“In terms of trophies, it’s a success only if you win it. How you measure success or associate that word, we can have a much deeper conversation. But we are here to win, we are here to win the big competitions and the ones people consider not that big. That’s our duty.”
Bolton are 19th in League One and won 5-2 against Reading on Saturday. Manager Ian Evatt says there is no pressure on his players and told them to embrace the occasion.
Evatt: “It’s something we can all enjoy off the back of a good performance on Saturday. We can go there with the pressure off and just know this is as tough as it gets and go there humble enough to know that there is zero expectation and no-one thinks we’ve got a cat in hell’s chance.
“But what we can do is go and learn about what it takes to be either a manager or a player at that level. We will go there and give it our best shot and see where that takes us. We are going to do our best to be competitive and hopefully we can make it an enjoyable experience, not just for us but for our supporters who are going down in their numbers again.”
