TEAM NEWS
Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck has been ruled out with a knee injury and is a doubt for the FA Cup final.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mathieu Debuchy have returned to training after hamstring injuries but they will not be fit enough to play on Sunday.
West Brom head coach Tony Pulis has no new injury worries ahead of his side's final game of the season.
Goalkeeper Ben Foster remains sidelined with a knee injury which is expected to keep him out until October.
MATCH PREVIEW
Arsenal should consider it a successful week. Draws against Manchester United and Sunderland have virtually assured them of a third-placed finish, thus avoiding a dreaded Champions League qualifier in August. That fate awaits Louis van Gaal's team.
The Gunners' focus now turns to next weekend's FA Cup final, where they could become the first team to lift the trophy 12 times - they are level with Manchester United on 11 - and they won't want to go into that game on the back of a poor performance.
Arsenal's attack has been blunted in recent weeks, with Chelsea, Swansea and Sunderland preventing them from scoring in three successive games at the Emirates.
Arsene Wenger will hope they can rediscover their scoring touch on Sunday, and I'm anticipating a team not too dissimilar to the one he'll play at Wembley. There are still a couple of places up for grabs, with Jack Wilshere back in contention and a scramble at left-back between Kieran Gibbs and Nacho Monreal.
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"Arsenal have had a few hiccups of late, taking only two points from their last three games and they need to get some sort of rhythm back before next weekend's FA Cup final."
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West Brom are one of the last sides you want to face if goals are proving a problem. Since the arrival of Tony Pulis, they've kept 10 clean sheets in 17 league games and they certainly won't roll over for Arsenal.
What's left to say about Pulis? In successive seasons, he has rescued two different teams from the threat of relegation. This time around it's West Brom he has improved beyond all recognition.
His record was described as "amazing" by none other than Chelsea's title-winning manager Jose Mourinho, who summed it up perfectly last week when he said if he owned an English club he'd employ Pulis.
The Baggies were just a point above the relegation zone when he took over; they can end the season no lower than 13th.
There's a little uncertainty around The Hawthorns after chairman Jeremy Peace confirmed he is looking to sell the club sooner rather than later, but as long as Pulis is at the helm they know they are in safe hands.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- Arsenal are unbeaten in eight league meetings with West Brom, winning six of them.
- The Baggies won 3-2 at the Emirates Stadium in September 2010 - their only victory in eight Premier League trips to Arsenal.
- Arsenal have scored in all 17 Premier League meetings against West Brom.
Arsenal
- Arsenal have only won one of their last five Premier League games.
- They have gone three consecutive home league matches without scoring for the first time since February 2009.
- The Gunners have scored more than once in just one of their last six league matches.
- It is the 10th season in a row that the Gunners have failed to finish in the top two.
- Arsenal's last defeat on the final day of the season was 10 years ago. They are unbeaten in the subsequent nine matches (W7, D2).
West Brom
- West Brom are unbeaten in five Premier League matches for the first time since September to October 2013 (W3, D2).
- They have won two and drawn one of their last three away matches in the league.
- The Baggies have kept clean sheets in four of their last five games.
- The last time West Brom won their final Premier League game of the season was against Portsmouth in 2005.
- Albion have scored a league-high 13 goals from corners this season.
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