Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta concedes his selection against Liverpool will be done with an eye on their FA Cup semifinal.

The Gunners meet City at Wembley this weekend.

"I believe that it's very important to have energy and momentum going into important matches, and in order to do that you have to go game by game," Arteta said.

"Today and tomorrow we will assess the players and how they are, and obviously they've been hit and a lot of them have played some crazy minutes up until now, and again we're going to have games every two and a half days.

"We will try to put the strongest team out as possible here and as well on Saturday, and to do that we need to know how everyone recovers from the game."