WHEN it rains, it pours for Mikel Arteta after he revealed one other participant faces a prolonged spell on the sidelines.
Although his Arsenal facet are high of each the Premier League and Champions League tables, accidents are beginning to mount up.
It was reported yesterday that Declan Rice, Leandro Trossard and William Saliba all missed coaching and are lacking tonight’s recreation towards Club Brugge in Belgium.
Kai Havertz and Gabriel Magalhaes are additionally out, and are usually not anticipated to return till the New Year.
The similar now goes for Cristhian Mosquera after Arteta confirmed it’s weeks moderately than days he can be out.
The Gunners boss stated: “Unfortunately he’s going to be out for weeks. It’s far more than what we anticipated, however the participant was feeling it, so he’s going to be out for weeks.”
Mosquera was substituted simply earlier than half-time in Arsenal’s 2-0 win towards Brentford final week.
Signed from Valencia in the summertime for £13 million as cowl for first alternative centre-back pairing Saliba and Gabriel, the Spaniard has performed greater than he may need anticipated because of the harm disaster.
He is now very a lot part of that, that means Jurrien Timber and Piero Hincapie will proceed to deputise there tonight.
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A makeshift defence might have contributed to the Gunners selecting up simply 4 factors from their final 9 accessible within the Premier League, which has seen the hole lower to simply two factors.
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Attention turns to the Champions League tonight, the place they’re aiming to make it six wins out of six within the group part thus far.
But they should do it with out SIX first-team gamers, a sense Arteta is aware of all too properly.
Arsenal have now suffered 93 separate instances of harm because the begin of 2024/25, together with 26 thus far this season – second solely to Leeds within the Premier League, who’ve had 28.
Arteta defined the explanations for this.
He stated: “We don’t have time to coach. So coaching shouldn’t be there however clearly the truth that you’re lacking gamers, you’re loading different gamers extra (as) a consequence. It’s a very harmful circle that one.
“Some of the gamers have performed over 150 video games in two seasons so it begins to get overloaded. You begin to ask them time and again and once more to do this (and) in some unspecified time in the future they may break down.
“It’s one thing that we’re continuously taking a look at. We have performed lots of video games with lots of gamers lacking that places lots of stress after which extra accidents however we’re on it.
“I’m actually completely satisfied what we’re doing by way of the medical stuff and all the pieces that we are attempting to carry collectively, however typically as properly we want some issues to go on our facet.”
