Mustafi return gives Arsenal a lift

Shkodran Mustafi is fit and available for selection for Arsenal's New Year's Day hosting of Crystal Palace, Arsene Wenger has confirmed.

Arsenal lost two and won one of the three Premier League matches the German centre-back missed with a hamstring strain.

With Mustafi's return Wenger has other fitness worries to contend with, the injured Theo Walcott among them at Emirates Stadium.

"Mustafi is fit again and we have one or two uncertainties," Wenger told arsenal.com. "We have a few with flu." 

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