Arsenal may field a stronger team than expected for their last Champions League group stage game in Donetsk, Ukraine, tomorrow.

Manager Arsène Wenger had planned to field a team comparable to the side that lost the Worthington Cup third round tie to Ipswich. Instead, he will field several first-team stars, according to reports.

England internationals Ray Parlour and Martin Keown will be joined by Olympic champion Lauren and French strikers Thierry Henry and Sylvain Wiltord. Kanu may be asked to fill a midfield role.

Not that all the youngsters have to watch: England U21 'keeper Stuart Taylor is expected to make his first European start for Arsenal.

Seven players are unavailable because of injury, and Wenger is also concerned about the rest of the squad.

"We rested the players last week," he said. "But when they came back they still did not play very much better, and some of the others need games."