While title favourites Leicester travel to the Emirates Stadium on Sunday full of goals and high on confidence, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has an attacking dilemma.
The Gunners can close to within two points of the Premier League leaders with victory in the noon kick-off - but defeat could see them drop as low as fourth by the end of the day.
Arsenal's free-flowing, attacking football has been absent of late and Wenger saw his side go almost five and-a-half hours without a league goal before their 88-second double salvo in the 2-0 win at Bournemouth a week ago.
Olivier Giroud is the only player at the club to break into double figures for league goals, having racked up 12 so far, but the France international has not scored in his last five outings.
“Leicester play very deep so they don't give you a lot of space behind,” said Wenger.
"So for us it's always difficult. Do we use one tall guy to force that on the crosses or do we go for a bit more pace?"
By contrast, the Foxes’ Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez have combined for 32 league goals and 13 assists this season.
They have been the driving force of a superb squad effort which has seen Claudio Ranieri's side lose just twice in the Premier League so far.
The first of those defeats was the 5-2 reverse to Arsenal at the King Power Stadium back in September.
For the Gunners, Giroud (above) may have temporarily lost his scoring touch and with Alexis Sanchez - who struck a hat-trick in the big win at Leicester - still striving for match sharpness after an injury lay-off over Christmas and New Year, the burden of goals could instead fall on Theo Walcott.
But the England forward has just three league goals this season and has found himself on the bench for the last two Premier League games.
"Recently Theo has gone through a bit of a difficult patch," Wenger explained. “He's coming back just now and I haven't decided yet.”
“Leicester play very deep so they don't give you a lot of space behind.” - Arsene Wenger.
Wenger may have that dilemma to contend with at one end of the pitch, but in defence Gabriel has established himself alongside Laurent Koscielny.
Gabriel joined Arsenal just over a year ago and has forced his way into the team ahead of Per Mertesacker to form an impressive partnership between Koscielny.
Wenger has admitted the only concern he has over his new pairing is the language barrier, with Gabriel still not fluent in English.
