The Finland international is still struggling with the knee injury that forced him to withdraw from his countries 1-0 international friendly defeat against Bosnia-Herzegovina earlier this week and will not have recovered in time to face the new Premier League title winners at Highbury.
David Dunn though, is expected to make his long awaited comeback and should play some part in the game which can be seen live on Sky Sports Two, kick-off 12.30pm.
Blues (from): Bennett, Martin Taylor, Clapham, Cunningham, Upson, Johnson, Savage, Clemence, Morrison, Dunn, Hughes, Lazaridis, John, Tebily, Cisse, Doyle, Barrowman, Motteram.