With William Saliba suspended and Martin Odegaard dominated out, Riccardo Calafiori and Bukayo Saka might be part of them on the sidelines for Arsenal‘s match towards Liverpool.
Liverpool are presently 4 factors above Arsenal within the Premier League desk and go to the Emirates on Sunday for a sport that may reveal a lot in regards to the facet’s forthcoming campaigns.
For the primary time in a few years, the Gunners are presently experiencing a number of harm issues, which have been compounded by selecting up three crimson playing cards already this season.
Their summer season defensive signing, Calafiori, is the newest to have picked up a problem.
The Italian limped off within the second half of their 1-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk after showing to twist his proper knee when slipping on the turf.
Arteta mentioned: “He needed to come off as a result of he felt one thing. I don’t know the extent of it, so in that sense not nice information.”
Bukayo Saka harm replace
Together with Calafiori, Saka can also be a doubt for Sunday’s Premier League match after struggling a hamstring harm on worldwide responsibility.
The winger was compelled to overlook Arsenal‘s defeat to Bournemouth on the weekend, in addition to their Champions League win, and is “unlikely” to play Liverpool.
His supervisor defined to Prime Video: “He wasn’t capable of do the session in the way in which that we wished. He wasn’t nonetheless feeling good so it wasn’t excellent news.”
After the match, Arteta was requested once more about Saka, to which he responded: “He wasn’t capable of practice but so [playing against Liverpool] is unlikely.”
Who else is out?
We all know for sure that Saliba will miss the match as a result of one-match suspension he obtained after being despatched off, for knocking down Bournemouth‘s Evanilson as he ran by way of on aim.
Odegaard additionally stays sidelined on account of his ankle harm sustained in early September.
Defender Jurrien Timber is one other participant who might miss out this weekend. Nevertheless, the Dutchman is in competition to return, with Arteta saying on Monday: “It’s going to be shut. We now have to see how he offers with coaching with the entire group however he’s fairly shut.”
In the meantime, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Kieran Tierney additionally stay out with a knee and critical hamstring difficulty respectively.
This all signifies that Arsenal might now begin with a again 4 of Ben White, Gabriel, Jakub Kiwior and Oleksandr Zinchenko.
