arsenal's midfield trio jack wilshere, mikel arteta and abou diaby have all been handed starts for the club's under 21s game on tuesday night as they continue their respective recoveries from injury steve gatting's young gunners take on stoke city at the emirates stadium in a u21 premier league clash teenage winger serge gnabry is also in the starting line up, alongside a host of promising youngsters including dan crowley jack wilshere, pictured in first team training last week, starts for arsenal under 21s on tuesday night  club captain mikel arteta (left) is also in the team to play against stoke city at the emirates stadium  wilshere watched arsenal beat liverpool 4 1 in the premier league from the stands on saturday afternoon  iliev, maitland niles, o’connor, bielik, ormonde ottewill, diaby, arteta, gnabry, wilshere, crowley, iwobi  wilshere has been out of action since november after breaking his foot against manchester united, as has club captain arteta who picked up an ankle injury at home to borussia dortmund diaby's fitness troubles have been well documented, with the french midfielder racking up 227 weeks out during his nine year career with the club all three featured in last week's practice match against a brentford development xi, with england international wilshere scoring in the 4 0 victory mathieu debuchy and mathieu flamini also appeared in that game, though both are now closer to first team action with the latter coming on against liverpool on saturday arsene wenger said last thursday: 'they’ve no problem after that coming out of the game they are back available in training, a bit short still of top competitive level certainly but that’s normal 'they’ve been out for a long time but i was quite surprised by how fit they looked and the quality of their performance   it was good' gnabry, who played nine times in the premier league last season, has been blighted by injuries this term, and is yet to play a first team game abou diaby has been blighted by injuries for the best part of a decade but played last week in a friendly  england star wilshere scored the opening goal and created another against a brentford development xi 
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arsenal take on stoke city in barclays under 21 premier league clash  jack wilshere and club captain mikel arteta have been out since november  abou diaby has been ravaged by injuries during nine year spell at club  arteta, wilshere and diaby are all close to first team returns  young winger serge gnabry also in the side on return from injury  read: arsenal's alex oxlade chamberlain, calum chambers, jack wilshere and danny welbeck keep their agents close  click here for all the latest arsenal news 