Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is determined to help Arsenal win the FA Cup on Saturday after missing out on last year's final.
Arsenal take on Aston Villa this weekend in the showpiece event at Wembley and are aiming to make it back-to-back successes after beating Hull in 2014 to lift the trophy.
Oxlade-Chamberlain, 21, failed to make the squad for last year's final after returning to fitness just a few days before the match. He is hopeful, however, of playing his part this time around after making his first appearance in the 4-1 defeat of West Brom on Sunday following over two months out with a hamstring problem.
"I don't know [if I'll make it]. I hope that I'll be fit and I'll be available but it will be up to the manager to decide if he thinks I'm fit and I'm ready," Oxlade-Chamberlain told the Daily Mirror.
"It was a really difficult one [last year]. It's not a nice feeling. Especially when you feel that you have been influential. Last year I'd been injured three weeks and only came back a few days before the match and the manager felt the other boys who'd been playing and training were more ready."
Last year's FA Cup final was not the only time Oxlade-Chamberlain missed out on the chance to claim a trophy at Wembley.
In 2010, while at Southampton, he was left out of Alan Pardew's squad for the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final against Carlisle, with the Saints going on to win 4-1.
"When I was at Southampton in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final I was in a similar situation [to last year]," Oxlade-Chamberlain said. "Alan Pardew said to me, 'I'm leaving you out today because I feel like you'll be back here in the future a lot,' and then the second one comes along and I miss it as well."
Despite the hamstring injury which ruled him out for over two months, the England international has been pleased with how this season has gone for him.
"I did feel [this season] was my best campaign," he said. "Game time is obviously a plus -- I felt like I was getting my fair share of that and I felt strong. For the first time I was an important part of the team.
"When you're a young lad in a team like Arsenal you feel like, of course, you deserve to be at the club... but you're on the periphery and there are world-class players and more experienced players around you.
"[This season] especially, I felt like I found my own role in the team that was important to our team."