Alexandre Lacazette starts for Arsenal in season curtain-raiser against Leicester
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Updated 11/08/2017 at 18:02 GMT
Alexandre Lacazette makes his Premier League debut for Arsenal as they begin their Premier League campaign at home to Leicester City.
Olivier Giroud celebrates with Nacho Monreal, Mohamed Elneny, Alexandre Lacazette and teammates
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Bosnian left-back Sead Kolašinac is also handed a league debut against the 2015/16 champions, who have record signing Kelechi Iheanacho on the bench following the Nigerian forward's £25m move from Manchester City.
Mesut Ozil returns for Arsene Wenger's side to support the attack having missed last week's Community Shield win over Chelsea at Wembley with an ankle injury.
Alexis Sanchez will miss Arsenal's opening two Premier League games through an abdominal injury.
Having played in the Confederations Cup up until the final on July 2, Sanchez was given an extended summer break which included missing the penalty win over Chelsea.
Arsenal: Cech, Holding, Monreal, Kolasinac, Bellerin, Xhaka, Elneny, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Welbeck, Ozil, Lacazette..subs: Ospina, Mustafi, Coquelin, Ramsey, Iwobi, Giroud, Walcott
Leicester: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Fuchs, Mahrez, Ndidi, James, Albrighton, Okazaki, Vardy..subs: Hamer, Chilwell, Amartey, King, Gray, Slimani, Iheanacho
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