Ashley Westwood: 'Christian Benteke will give Arsenal sleepless nights'

Ashley Westwood has claimed that Arsenal must be fearing Aston Villa's in-form striker Christian Benteke ahead of Saturday's FA Cup final.

After battling poor form and injury earlier in the campaign, Benteke finished the season with 12 goals in 12 matches, and Westwood believes that the Belgian has the ability to make life difficult for the Gunners defence at Wembley.

"I think he's back to full fitness now, he was struggling with his Achilles early on and people didn't see that, they just expected him to walk back in and fire in the goals," the Villa midfielder told reporters.

"But he's back to his best now, bullying defenders and I'm sure they'll have sleepless nights, they won't want to be playing against him.

"We know how good we are, if we play like we can do we can match anyone. We've got internationals throughout the team, [Fabian Delph] and [Tom Cleverley] are on form, Christian is a real handful for anyone, I'm sure they'll be having sleepless nights about him."

Villa finished their Premier League campaign with a 1-0 defeat to Burnley on Sunday.