Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta will not pick a weakened team against Liverpool in the Premier League.

The Gunners have an FA Cup semi final against Manchester City at the weekend.

They are unlikely to qualify for Europe through the Premier League. But Arteta will pick a strong team for the match on Wednesday.

"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 told reporters.

"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."